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Digital preservation has turned into an active field of research. The most prominent approaches today are migration and emulation; especially considering migration, a range of working tools is available, each with specific strengths and weaknesses. The decision process on which actions to take to preserve a given set of digital objects for future access, i.e., preservation planning, is usually an ad-hoc procedure with little tool support and even less support for automation.This paper presents the integration of tools and services for object migration and characterization through a service oriented architecture into a planning tool called Plato, thus creating a distributed and highly automated preservation planning environment.KeywordsDigital LibraryService Orient ArchitectureObjective TreeDigital PreservationSample ObjectThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Practical Digital Preservation: A How-To Guide for Organizations of Any Size. By Adrian Brown. Chicago: Neal-Schuman, 2013. 336 p. $75 softcover (ISBN: 978-1-55570-942-6). Practical Digital Preservation: A How-To Guide for Organizations of Any Size provides detailed information about and helpful strategies for tackling robust and evolving world of digital preservation. author defines digital preservation as the process of maintaining a digital object for as long as required, in a form which is authentic, and accessible to users (xii). book is divided into ten chapters and includes a glossary of terms, appendixes, bibliography, and index. first chapter includes some practical information regarding appropriate audience, use of book, minimum requirements for embarking on digital preservation, myths about digital preservation, a comprehensive survey covering history of digital preservation, and some helpful hints about terminology. In chapter 2, author outlines strategies for building a digital preservation program and for handling challenges such as limited staffing, resources, technical infrastructure, and knowledge of project management. He argues that first step should be securing recognition from administrators that digital preservation is important to success of organization. author helps reader in this regard by focusing this chapter on creating an effective business plan for digital preservation. Moreover, author includes methods for discussing financial and nonfinancial benefits of adopting and embracing a digital preservation plan. Creating a digital preservation policy and knowing essential components therewith can be a powerful means of securing support from administrators and colleagues. Chapter 3 provides a needs assessment for creating a well-documented, sustainable, and successful digital preservation program. chapter focuses on best way to develop a set of requirements, communicate with stakeholders to secure support and contribution to program, examine other business plans and policies, and build on what organization is already doing. Additionally, author includes detailed information on how established requirements should be articulated and documented. last part of chapter highlights application of established requirements and best way to create an actual digital preservation program. fourth chapter includes many useful case studies that outline approaches to creating and implementing a digital preservation program. A range of possible options are discussed in this chapter, from in-house solutions to outsourcing; in addition author describes why certain models are better suited to particular organizations. If an organization has already chosen an approach, this chapter would be useful to consult as it assesses implementation process as well as practicalities of managing a digital preservation service. Finally, author provides information on best way to develop a realistic roadmap to bring a digital preservation program to its optimum level of service and capacity in future. Chapters 5 and 6 focus on two stages of acquiring digital content for repositories. author describes stage one in chapter 5: The institution makes a decision to acquire a specific collection of material, undertakes any preparatory activities, and performs physical transfer of that material into its custody (109). …

While the business benefits of digital asset management are well documented, the benefits and importance of digital preservation are not. Digital preservation is a sustained commitment to maintenance activities that require a system of plans, policies and implementation workflows. Coordination across departments is helpful for digital asset management, but it is mandatory for digital preservation. The Montana Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG) operated under a five-point plan for collaboration between organisations. The plan consisted of cultivating shared knowledge, assessing the current digital preservation landscape at each institution, advocating for the value of digital preservation, implementing digital preservation practices, and sustaining the partnership by developing structures for ongoing projects and mutual support. In this paper, the five-point plan for collaboration used by DPWG is adapted to build alliances in four essential areas of an organisation: the project and process team, the management team, the executive team and the information technology team. By building strategic alliances that support digital preservation advocacy and planning, information managers extend their reach and resources, ultimately leading to more robust preservation of valuable digital assets.

The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation presents an overview of the issues inherent to undertaking digital preservation, with an eye to getting the reader to understand the theoretical building blocks of the topic so they can develop preservation plans that will meet the unique needs of their collections. The book is written by Trevor Owens, the head of digital content management for library services at the Library of Congress. Owens has been actively involved in digital preservation planning, playing a part in developing the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Levels of Digital Preservation.

The National Archives is developing a range of practical solutions to the active preservation of electronic records, using an extensible service-oriented architecture and a central technical registry (PRONOM). This paper describes TNA’s methodologies for characterisation, preservation planning, and preservation action, the technologies being adopted to implement them, and the role of PRONOM in supporting these services. It describes how this approach fits with international research programmes, and the types of preservation service which TNA may be able to provide externally in the future.

Short development life cycles, the importance of time-to-market and fast changes in technology influence the requirements engineering process. Requirements are exposed to changes during the entire development life cycle, and decisions related to requirements and system design are moving toward developers. For this reason it is important to keep requirement changes under control during the entire development process. This control can be achieved by utilizing Configuration Management (CM) functions and in particular Change Management. This paper describes a model for managing requirements using CM functions. A requirements specification is defined as an hierarchic structure, in which elements of the structure are isolated requirements designated Requirements Specification Items. Having items under version control it is possible to get a better overview of the requirements change process. In the implementation phase, requirement items are associated with Change Requests which define implementations to be introduced in the system. When using Change Requests as links between requirements and the implemented functions we achieve a greater awareness of requirements and a better overview over the requirement process. Furthermore it provides a foundation for reuse of requirements when new systems are built.

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The expectation on today's information technology (IT) professionals to remain technically competent constitutes a significant source of stress. We examine how IT professionals experience and cope with the threat of technical obsolescence. Interestingly, not all IT professionals consider technology change a threat to their technical competence; some viewed updating as enjoyable and pursued learning for its own sake. However, most viewed the relentless demand to update their technical skills as stressful and used a variety of coping strategies to address this threat. Using this cognitive approach to technical obsolescence, we describe implications for managerial practice and delineate a direction for future research. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

We have learned from the debate on diversity and inclusion that archiving is not neutral or unbiased even though it is presented in this way. Seen from the perspective of cultural humility, we need to keep learning and challenge power imbalances from both the individual and the organizational level. This article discusses what this means for digital preservation concepts.

Misinformation permeates online news media, making it hard for users to trust and verify content. Building upon prior work that highlights online news challenges and the importance of digital literacy skills, we examine user digital media skills, online news consumption behaviors, and perceptions of current misinformation tools. To better understand these dynamics, we conducted a formative, mixed methods study (n=34) that included a survey, two weeks of browser-based application logging using a Chrome plugin, and follow-up semi-structured interviews. Contradictions in the survey and log results indicate that participants in our sample often overestimate their news consumption habits. While information and news media literacy scores are generally high, less than half (47%, 16/34) exhibit lateral reading. We provide insights into users' challenges in navigating today's information landscape and propose effective integrated solutions. Interview findings inform the design of online news interventions and personal informatics tools to further improve media literacy while maintaining user privacy.

In this day and age of exponentially growing amounts of scientific information, the ability to perform efficient literature searches is a key skill for students and scientist. This review covers essential aspects of literature searching: devising a search strategy and selecting sources to search. Examples will be drawn from the field of biomedical research in general and evidence-based medicine in particular. In addition, the implications of the semantic web, Web2.0 and Open Access on literature searching will be discussed.

This paper is an extended and updated version of the work reported at iPres 2008. Digital preservation activities can only succeed if they go beyond the technical properties of digital objects. They must consider the strategy, policy, goals, and constraints of the institution that undertakes them and take into account the cultural and institutional framework in which data, documents and records are preserved. Furthermore, because organizations differ in many ways, a one-size-fits-all approach cannot be appropriate. Fortunately, organizations involved in digital preservation have created documents describing their policies, strategies, work-flows, plans, and goals to provide guidance. They also have skilled staff who are aware of sometimes unwritten considerations. Within Planets (Farquhar & Hockx-Yu, 2007), a four-year project co-funded by the European Union to address core digital preservation challenges, we have analyzed preservation guiding documents and interviewed staff from libraries, archives, and data centres that are actively engaged in digital preservation. This paper introduces a conceptual model for expressing the core concepts and requirements that appear in preservation guiding documents. It defines a specific vocabulary that institutions can reuse for expressing their own policies and strategies. In addition to providing a conceptual framework, the model and vocabulary support automated preservation planning tools through an XML representation.

Increased flooding from storms, hurricanes, and gradual changes in sea levels pose significant threats to Florida’s valuable cultural and archaeological resources, which include over 253,000 historic structures, historic cemeteries, National Register of Historic Places properties, and resource groups. This study investigates the impact of storm surge, sea level rise, and high tide flooding on these resources along Florida’s coastline. While some efforts have been made to assess these impacts, no comprehensive analysis exists to guide stakeholders in prioritizing actions for documentation, preservation, and funding allocation. Notable efforts, such as those by the Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research, the Department of Environmental Protection, and the Florida Public Archaeology Network’s Heritage Monitoring Scout program have contributed to understanding the scope of these threats. However, a gap remains in synthesizing this information to identify the most at-risk sites. This article builds on existing research to assess, quantify, and highlight vulnerable cultural resources, with a focus on understanding the key factors driving these risks. Our results quantify the exposure of cultural assets to multiple flooding scenarios and highlight priority targets for preservation and resilience planning. These findings offer a preliminary framework for prioritizing preservation efforts which will enable stakeholders to direct limited resources more effectively toward safeguarding Florida’s coastal cultural heritage.

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