Report on Trusted Digital Repositories

Contents: Introduction   Concept of Trust   Approaches to Trust    Questionnaire    Standards    Standard and Certification    References    Bibliography    Appendix 1. Dit rapport geeft een beschrijving van het onderwerp “betrouwbaarheid” vanuit verschillende disciplines, in relatie tot de eisen die moeten worden gesteld aan digitale repositories. Deze deliverable van het Europese project CASPAR biedt een overzicht van elementen …

JISC Project Report: Digitisation Programme Digital Preservation Study

In 2009, DPC with University of London Computer Centre and Portico carried out an extensive analysis for the JISC Digitisation Programme, examining the projects funded through this programme and assessing their plans for access beyond the existence of their project grants.  A scaled down version of the report with analysis is published here and a number of case studies have …

International Preservation News. Number 47. Preservation of Audiovisual Collections, Moving Images

Contents: One of two special editions (the other is number 46, on still images and sound recordings) of the IFLA publication International Preservation News, focussing on audiovisual archives. This issue concerns moving image archives. It includes a variety of articles, about projects, archives and general av preservation issues. The range of subjects taken together, offer an interesting overview of activity …

What? So What?: The Next-Generation JHOVE2 Architecture for Format-Aware Characterization

This article introduces the JHOVE2 format characterization tool, comparing it with its predecessor JHOVE, the first characterization framework developed and used by international digital library programs and preservation repositories. Besides going into JHOVE2 development and specifications, it explains why characterization is essential in digital preservation workflows and emphasizes the addition of an assessment functionality which allows the repository to determine …