Selected Resources

GENERAL
Preserving Digital Information: Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information. John Garrett and Donald W. Waters. A report commissioned by the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group, Inc., May 1, 1996.

James J. O'Donnell, LC21 - Hopes and Cautions for the Library of Congress, D-Lib Magazine, October 2000.

Peter Lyman and Brewster Kahle Archiving Digital Cultural Artifacts : Organizing an Agenda for Action, D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1998.

ARCHITECTURES FOR REPOSITORIES
This topic area will the requirements for long-term storage repositories; interoperability of components for storage, data management, and information representation; and infrastructures for systems integration.

Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Resource Page, maintained by RLG with links to the Draft ISO Standard.

RLG/OCLC Digital Archive Attributes Working Group.  Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository:  Meeting the Needs of Research Resources, Draft for Public Comment.  August 2001.

Reagan Moore, Chaitan Baru, Arcot Rajasekar, Bertram Ludaescher, Richard Marciano, Michael Wan, Wayne Schroeder, and Amarnath Gupta, Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives - Part 1, D-Lib Magazine, March 2000.

Reagan Moore, Chaitan Baru, Arcot Rajasekar, Bertram Ludaescher, Richard Marciano, Michael Wan, Wayne Schroeder, and Amarnath Gupta, Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives - Part 2, D-Lib Magazine, March 2000.

Digital Library Federation, Minimum Criteria for an Archival Repository of Digital Scholarly Journals, Version 1.2, May 15, 2000.

Titia van der Werf-Davelaar, Long-term Preservation of Electronic Publications: The NEDLIB project, D-Lib Magazine, September 1999.

Kenneth Thibodeau,  Building the Archives of the Future: Advances in Preserving Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration, D-Lib Magazine, February 2001.

ATTRIBUTES OF ARCHIVED COLLECTIONS
This topic area concerns characteristics, classification, and boundaries of digital collections. What constitutes an archived collection?  What are the special requirements for archived collections? How do organizations preserve collections that they do not own and control?

Anne R. Kenney, Nancy Y. McGovern, Peter Botticelli, Richard Entlich, Carl Lagoze, Sandra Payette. Preservation Risk Management for Web Resources: Virtual Remote Control in Cornell's Project Prism, D-Lib Magazine, January 2002.

Dale Flecker, Preserving Scholarly E-Journals, D-Lib Magazine, September 2001.

Carl Lagoze and David Fielding, Defining Collections in Distributed Digital Libraries, D-Lib Magazine, November 1998.

Tony Gill and Paul Miller, Re-inventing the Wheel? Standards, Interoperability and Digital Cultural Content, D-Lib Magazine, January 2002.

Building and Sustaining Digital Collections, Council on Library and Information Resources, August 2001.

Authenticity in a Digital Environment, Council on Library and Information Resources, May 2000.

TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY
What tools and technology are needed to support selection, organization, preservation, and access to digital archives?  What tools are technology are needed for migrating onto new technology and migrating to new standards?  How can "pull" technologies support acquisition of collections?  What tools are needed to automate digital archive management?

Gail M. Hodge,  Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach, D-Lib Magazine, January 2000.

Jeff Rothenberg, Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation, Council on Library and Information Resources, January 1999.

Clifford Lynch, Canonicalization: A Fundamental Tool to Facilitate Preservation and Management of Digital Information, D-Lib Magazine, September 1999.

Vicky Reich and David S. H. Rosenthal,  LOCKSS: A Permanent Web Publishing and Access System, D-Lib Magazine,  June 2001.

Arturo Crespo and Hector Garcia-Molina: Modeling Archival Repositories for Digital Libraries. Technical Report, 1999.

OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata, Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects : A Review of the State of the Art, January 31, 2001.

POLICY AND ECONOMIC MODELS
Which aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Rights Management impede selection, acquisition, management, and access to digital archives?  What are effective means to distribute the responsibilities and costs of digital archiving?  What research is needed to develop sustainable cost models?

National Research Council, Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Emerging Information Infrastructure, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age, National Academy Press, 2000.

CEDARS Guide to Intellectual Property Rights, University of Leeds, February 2002.

Clifford Lynch, The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World. First Monday,  June 2001.

Henry M. Gladney and Jeff B. Lotspiech, Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: Storing, Sending, Showing, and Honoring Usage Terms and Conditions, D-Lib Magazine, May 1998.

Kelly Russell and Ellis Weinberger, Cost elements of digital preservation, Draft.  May 31, 2000.

Brian Cooper and Hector Garcia-Molina, Creating Trading Networks of Digital Archives, 1st ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2001.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
PADI: Preserving Access to Digital Information.  An excellent portal to information in digital preservation maintained by the National Library of Australia.