A DPC Technology Watch Report on new developments in preservation metadata. Written by Richard Gartner and Brian Lavoie this second edition focuses on PREMIS implementations, including revisions of the Data Dictionary, packaging (with a focus on METS), tools and other implementation resources.
Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Types of Carriers, Recording Principles, Composition, Physical and Chemical Stability, Deterioration by Replay 3 Passive Preservation: Environmental Factors, Handling and Storage 4 Storage Facilities and Transport 5 Disaster Preparedness: Fire, Water and Uninterrupted Power Supply 6 Conclusion Select Bibliography Index List of TC Members These guidelines describe the main recording principles of sound and audiovisual carriers …
A contribution to LC’s digital preservation blog on the increasing practice within the audiovisual community, namely to generate fixity values at the intra-file or part level in addition to the whole file. An overview is provided of the options to create such values and where to store them:several examples of container or “chunk” level hashing,the process of confirming whether a …
Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Representation and preservation of digital rights 3 Classification and evaluation of DRM and DRM systems 4 Review of DRM use and dealing with digital rights 5 Results of the APARSEN DRM Survey 6 Best practices and recommendations 7 Conclusion References This deliverable of the APARSEN project is specifically concerned with approaches for dealing with digital rights …
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Functional Roles of Collections and Collection Description in Aggregation Scenarios 3. Representational Requirements 4. Modeling Strategies for Collection Representation and Description 5. Conclusion References The authors, members of the IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) project and developers of the Europeana Data Model(EDM), recently formed a collaborative study group to recommend an extension of EDM to …
Contents: About the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Defining Fixity and Fixity Information Limits of Fixity and Uses of Fixity Information Reasons to Collect, Check, Maintain, and Verify Fixity Information General Approaches to Fixity Check Frequency Considerations for Fixity Check Fixity Characteristics of Common Fixity Check Instruments Where to Store and Reference Fixity Information Further Reading Information About Relevant Standards and …
