D3.1: Tenders for Transfer of Film to Digital Master

Contents: 1. Introduction and Background 2. Calls for Tenders by Film Archives 3. Sample Descriptive Documents This deliverable from the European Film Gateway 1914 project explains the process of preparing and issuing an RFT (Request for Tender). It was written by the EYE Film Institute staff who built up considerable experience during its participation in the Images for the Future …

Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012

Contents: 1 Executive summary 2 Introduction 3 Response to the survey Digitisation activity 5 Digital access 6 Digital preservation 7 Digitisation expenditure This is the first report on the state of digitisation in Europe’s cultural heritage institutions published by the ENUMERATE Thematic Network. The report is based on nearly 2000 ‘core’ survey responses, from 29 European countries. The survey, carried …

D24.1 Report on Authenticity and Plan for Interoperable Authenticity Evaluation System

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. State of the Art: 2.1 Longterm Digital Preservation Research Projects 2.2 Standards, Requirements and Recommendations 3. A Basic Framework for Authenticity and Provenance 4. A Model for Managing Authenticity and Provenance through the Digital Lifecycle 5. Guidelines for the Management of Authenticity Evidence 6. Secure Logging Mechanisms 7. Provenance Interoperability and Reasoning 8. Articulation with the …

Total Cost of Preservation (TCP): Cost Modeling for Sustainable Services

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Total cost of preservation 3. Predictive reliability Appendix A: Prior work Appendix B: Power series Appendix C: Pay-as-you-go price model Appendix D: Discount factor Appendix E: Paid-up price model References This white paper presents two cost models that could be used to determine the “Total Cost of Preservation (TCP)”. It begins by introducing a range of …

AIMS Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model of Stewardship

Contents: Foreword The AIMS Framework: The Functions of Stewardship 1. Collection Development 2. Accessioning 3. Arrangement and Description 4. Discovery and Access Conclusions Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Bibliography Appendix C: Contributor Biographies Appendix D Institutional Summaries and Collection Descriptions Appendix E: Sample Processing Plans Appendix F: Policies, Templates, Documents, etc. Appendix G: Technical Evaluation and Use Appendix H: Technical …

D24.2 Implementation and Testing of an Authenticity Protocol on a Specific Domain

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Health-care Data Repository in Vicenza 3. Social Science Data Repository at the UK Data Archive 4. Scientific Experimental Data Repository in HEP 5. Articulation with the rest APARSEN WPS and Tasks 6. Integration and Outreach 7. Conclusions References Appendix – Ingest at UK Digital Archive The APARSEN project has developed an “authenticity management model” described in …