...Jonathan Mukwevho; Mpho Ngoepe Purpose Despite the availability of the mandate of public archives repositories to “take archives to the people in South Africa”, archives in South Africa remain largely the domain of the elite. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the adoption of social media...

...Roland Erwin Suri; Mohamed El-Saad Purpose Changes in file format specifications challenge long-term preservation of digital documents. Digital archives thus often focus on specific file formats that are well suited for long-term preservation, such as the PDF/A format. Since only few customers...

... of the data for integration is not a product of the infrastructure itself. Instead, much of the relevant primary source materials is to be found in the traditional infrastructures of humanities research: collection holding institutions such as libraries, archives and museums (Speck and Links, 2013...

...Dalia Mendelsson; Edith Falk; Amalya L. Oliver Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the organizational and technological processes and strategic choices that led to the successful digitization project of the Albert Einstein Archives. Design/methodology/approach – This is a case...

... is to discuss the design, novelty and functionality of these facets as an archive, comprising a collage of profiles and publications of RRIians whose imprints on the sands of time have been culled and collated for posterity. Design/methodology/approach RRI Digital repository makes use of DSpace to preserve...

... curation as an emerging profession (Higgins, 2011). Like it or not, the term has been widely adopted around the world. Personally, I like it, because it incorporates fundamental archival principles and emphasizes the human role in preserving and managing digital assets. © Emerald Group Publishing...

... Energy savings Library facilities Library buildings Archives Environmental management While HVAC equipment shutdowns have long been recognized as a strategic option for achieving energy savings in buildings managed primarily for human comfort, the particular requirements of preservation...

...Michael Seadle Purpose The purpose of this article is an ethnographic description of a particular slice of the digital archiving scholarship. The point is to get a sense of where the library and information science profession is today in dealing with the issues of long‐term digital archiving...

...Michael Seadle Purpose This paper aims to focus on how long‐term digital archiving systems are tested and what benchmarks and other metrics are necessary for that testing to produce data that the community can use to make decisions. Design/methodology/approach The article reviews recent...

... to transfer analog film to digital formats. Issues related to the conversion, description, and online hosting of digital films are also addressed. Findings Though the steps involved in digitizing film are not trivial, the benefits of access both for the public and archives staff outweigh the expense...

.../methodology/approach The paper describes how data from Portico, LOCKSS, and CLOCKSS were cleaned and analyzed using Perl programs to discover duplications. Findings The findings show a significant overlap among the archiving systems. They also show that Portico has no prejudice against small publishers...

.... The main tasks for a LOCKSS box are to check on the integrity of archived materials and to rebuild an object if a majority of LOCKSS boxes agree that the object is damaged. LOCKSS boxes use only direct access storage, mainly hard drives at present, though any form of direct access device would do. Tape...

... . Understanding Data and Information Systems for Recordkeeping . London : Facet Publishing   2008 . 331 pp. , ISBN: 9781856046275   £44.95 soft cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Information systems Information storage Records management Archives Content management...

...Timothy W. Cole; Sarah L. Shreeves Its National Leadership Grant (NLG) program is one of the many ways in which the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) supports the development of innovative new projects and services by the museum, library, and archival community in the USA. Over...

... different institutions. By working collaboratively, the project team is developing a finding aid that is tailored to the needs of Whitman scholars while following a standard developed in the archival community, encoded archival description (EAD). XSLT stylesheets are used to harvest information from various...

... Publishing Limited 2004 Online cataloguing Archives Bibliographic systems What I am suggesting is different in scope and structure than is implied by my “MARC must die” column in Library Journal, although I alluded to it in the follow‐up “MARC exit strategies” column. What must die...

... in the Library of Congress’s Minerva project for Web archiving is given. Definitions are often in the form of links to MARC documentation, where MODS elements inherit MARC semantics. A mapping may be provided as well as a reference to a definition. The guidelines point out when an element is used...

...Peter Carini; Kelcy Shepherd This case study details the evolution of descriptive practices and standards used in the Mount Holyoke College Archives and the Five College Finding Aids Access Project, discusses the relationship of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and the MARC standard in reference...

... the workflow, allowing one staff member to work on one record at a time but also allowing any staff member to view the record at any time. © Company 2004 Standards Administrative data processing Archives Directed under federal legislation of Public Law 101‐589, Section 204, as part...

.... Administrators and encoders alike are forced to reckon with legacy data formats and descriptive styles that do not match those utilized in their own archival practices. Often, more time and financial expenditures must be placed on administrative duties in order to deal with the lack of standardization. Efforts...