ID3.4.1 Service Level Agreements for Preservation Services

Contents: This report looks at preservation services, whether out-sourced or in-house and the considerations that are important when defining the service level agreement (SLA) with the service provider. The majority concerns a proposal of 21 capabilities, 12 features of interest, 15 metrics, 12 quality of service terms, 4 constraints, 6 pricing terms and 7 penalty terms to be included in …

D7.1.3 Audiovisual Digital Preservation Status Report

Contents: Scope Executive Summary 1. A very brief introduction to PrestoPRIME 2. Digitisation 3. Digital Management and Preservation 4. Access Conclusions Glossary Annex I – DPE briefing paper. This report presents an overview of the problems, the technology and the projects currently underway in the audiovisual preservation domain as of January 2010. Beginning with a look at digitisation and its …

Keeping Research Data Safe 2

The first Keeping Research Data Safe study (Beagrie, Chrusczcz and Lavoie, JISC 2008) made a major contribution to understanding of long-term preservation costs for research data by developing a cost model and indentifying cost variables for preserving research data in UK universities. This aim of this follow-on project (2009/2010) was to provide a larger body of material and evidence against which existing …

Audiovisual preservation strategies, data models and value chains

This orginal PrestoPRIME project deliverable covers three main aspects of preservation strategy: – The value chains and business models that underpin preservation strategy in the widest sense, i.e. addressing economics and sustainability. This addresses the need to understand where the money will come from, how to keep it coming, and how preservation and access should be done as a result.  …

ALCTS Preservation Webinar Registrations

Free webinars from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). Webinar recordings are available at no cost 6 months after the original presentation You can find recordings of past Preservation Week webinars on YouTube. Libraries are encouraged to use any of these free recordings as part of their programming. More relevant videos can be found under the Playlist …