...-term archival storage is a small part of the total storage market. It typically re-uses media and systems intended for more general bulk storage. Findings What are the medium-term prospects for change in this market? Originality/value Much of this material has appeared in blog posts and talks...

... and books that they purchase. The CLOCKSS network is a closed network, managed by a non-profit consortium of publishers and libraries to form a dark archive of e-journal content. There are also many Private LOCKSS Networks (PLNs) preserving various genres of content. Each of these networks is configured...

... of the key issues surrounding digital authenticity have not yet been tested, but they will be when the economic value of an authentic digital work reaches the courts. Authenticity and integrity are concepts that lie at the heart of long‐term archiving, whether digital or analog. Essentially every long...

.... Too often these three are handled separately even though in fact each has an influence on the other. Design/methodology/approach The paper looks first at the ingest process (called the Submission Information Package or SIP), then at storage management in the archive (the AIP or Archival...

... in operation in the United States and Canada, including the Alabama Digital Preservation Network (ADPNet), the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS), the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data‐PASS)/Inter‐University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR...

... to validate formats and collect format metadata (JHOVE, 2009 ; UK National Archives, 2010a ; National Library of New Zealand, 2007 , Phil Harvey, 2010), registries preserving format specifications (UK National Archives, 2010b , UDFR, 2009), and format obsolescence notification systems. The idea...

...Michael Seadle Purpose The purpose of this article is to discuss the importance of, and problems with, interoperability along long term digital archiving systems. Design/methodology/approach The article reviews the literature about interoperability and takes an engineering‐oriented look...

...; delivery to users, highlighting methods to discover and deliver content, with special emphasis on the importance of placing archived content in context; legal considerations, such as privacy, intellectual property and creative commons; and managing a web archive programme, which gives an overview...

...M. Höppner; W. Horstmann; S. Rahmsdorf; Michael Seadle Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider whether PDF formats are appropriate for long‐term digital archiving. Design/methodology/approach The approach takes the form of examining how well PDF's capabilities fit eReader devices...

...Elke Greifender; Melinda Van Wingen; Abigail Bass Purpose This paper aims to explore the relationship between historiography and archival practices. It takes the new social history approach to history as a case study for examining how historians' changing theories and methods may affect...

...Toby Burrows Archives management Archiving Archiving documents Encoded Archival Description (EAD) has, since its release in 1998, become the most widely‐used electronic format for archival finding aids. As well as being extensively employed in North America, it has also been widely...

...Bradford Eden; Michael Seadle Purpose This editorial aims to look at damage control for the problems digital libraries will face in 100 years because of choices we make today. Design/methodology/approach The approach looks at the market choices for archiving systems and considers what factors...

.... The purpose of this paper is to discuss the policy and ambitions of the National Library of The Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB) regarding digital archiving of electronic publications. Design/methodology/approach This article discusses three possible threats against permanent access, and proposes...

... and time. This led Université Laval's team to the creation of an institutional repository system that is based on Java technology and which is not OS‐specific. Findings The system offers: documents management functionalities; dissemination mechanisms compatible with OAI‐PMH2 (Open Archive Initiative...

...Martin Halbert The MetaScholar Initiative is a collaborative endeavor to explore the feasibility and utility of scholarly portal services developed in conjunction with Open Archives Initiative (OAI) metadata harvesting technologies. The MetaScholar Initiative comprises two projects, the MetaArchive...

... digital collections intuitively seems of increasing import and value as a way to organize and manage the explosion of online information resources. The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting enables effective and efficient sharing of digital metadata and is being utilized across a wide...

...Gary Simons; Steven Bird The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources. The Dublin Core (DC) Element Set and the OAI Protocol have provided a solid foundation...

... experience and questions that have surfaced. Data collection techniques Digital libraries Data mining Archiving USA The Library of Congress (LC) was an early adopter of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting to make records for some of its digitized historical collections available...

...Sarah L. Shreeves; Joanne S. Kaczmarek; Timothy W. Cole In July of 2001, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign undertook a project to test the efficacy of using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting to construct...

...Carl Lagoze; Herbert Van de Sompel The authors, who jointly serve as the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) executive, reflect on the three‐year history of the OAI. Three years of technical work recently culminated in the release of a stable production version 2 of the OAI Protocol for Metadata...