Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information

Contents: Executive Summary Preface 1. Purpose and Background of the Report 2. The Economic Perspective on Digital Preservation 3. Addressing Economic Risks to Sustainability 4. Sustainable Preservation in Context 5. Recommendations for Achieving Sustainability Appendix 1. Characteristics of Sustainability in Public and Corporate Records Appendix 2. Analog and Digital Preservation Strategies Appendix 3. When Markets Do Not Work Appendix 4. …

D7.1.4 Audiovisual Digital Preservation Status Report 2

Contents: Scope Executive Summary 1 A summary of PrestoPRIME public activity in 2010 2 A Digital Preservation Primer 3 Digital Management and Preservation 4 Technology – Brief Encounters 5 Century Store – shining light into the “digital black hole” 6 Relevance of Digital Preservation to Broadcast Archives 7 Glossary Voor de zesde maal verschijnt deze jaarlijkse stand van zaken over …

D7.1.5 Audiovisual Digital Preservation Status Report 3

Contents: Scope Executive summary 1. A summary of PrestoPRIME public activity in 2011 2. PrestoPRIME technology 3. PrestoCentre Developments in 2011 4. Technology – Brief Encounters 5. UK, European and International Developments 6. Preservation of Signals 7. Glossary 8. References This status report is the seventh in a series of annual reviews of audiovisual preservation in Europe produced by the …

Funding for Sustainability: How Funders’ Practices Influence the Future of Digital Resources

Contents: Executive Summary 1. Introduction, Background, and Methodology 2. Defining the Sustainability Challenge 3. Current Funder Strategies for Sustainability 4. Concluding thoughts Appendices Bibliography This report presents the results of a study undertaken by Ithaka S+R, for the JISC Strategic Content Alliance, to examine the ways that both public and private funding bodies, in the academic and cultural heritage sectors, …