... (Figure 1). As it ages, it migrates down the hierarchy to larger, slower and cheaper media. Digital libraries Data mining Data storage Digital preservation Archiving Digital storage Figure 1 Storage hierarchy Long-term storage implements the base layers of the hierarchy, often...

... and the related sciences, while the green path – repositories is mainly used in natural sciences and engineering, but much less in social sciences. Digital documents Archives management Digital storage Automated storage/Retrieval systems Electronic information resources Today OA has become the usual...

... on NSF funding. Academic libraries Archives Digital preservation Infrastructure Digital storage Development United States of America History As an archivist who's been involved with the development of digital libraries and repositories over the last 15 years, I'm gratified to know...

... hit and Rosetta 3. LOCKSS and Portico do only marginally better. Michael Seadle can be contacted at: seadle@ibi.hu‐berlin.de © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Archives Information profession Information Libraries Librarians Digital libraries Digital storage Databases...

... were examined or what further tests might have been done. In that sense, the audit is more like a private test that no one outside of Portico and the audit team could reproduce. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Archives Digital storage Classification Decision making Information...

.... Librarians looking at users is an example of this, and questions about how users interact (or fail to interact) with the library abound. The danger of looking inward lies in our cultural blindness. Strict research rules offer some corrective. Library and information science Research Digital storage...

...@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Archives management Digital storage Information preservation Trust Accuracy While characteristics of digital objects can be easily computed and compared over time, no single measurement can itself authenticate the whole of a record...

... March. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Serials Text editing Data handling Digital storage Digital libraries Published continuously since 1905, the Indiana Magazine of History (IMH) (www.indiana.edu/∼imaghist/) is one of the nation's oldest historical journals...

... to provide online services to the readers for proper purposes and without infringements upon right holders. It is necessary for libraries to insist fair use institution in digital environment, manifesting in: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Copyright law China Research work Digital...

... Information science Digital storage An examination of the archival literature in consideration with Marshall's writing about personal digital archiving demonstrates that certain aspects of the archival discussion of personal records collections could be of use in Marshall's attempt to address...

.... Interoperability also requires fresh thinking about how archiving systems can reasonably measure important abstract concepts like integrity and authenticity. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Archiving Library and information networks Digital storage Information transfer This article...

... large production operation. Digital libraries Digital storage Archives management For any given file, DAITSS will attempt to maintain original, normalized, and current (last best) versions whenever possible. The specific treatment of any file is determined by the action plan...

... Archives management Organizations Digital storage With increasing sophistication, scholars and practitioners are treating digital preservation as a “research subject and social phenomenon” (Seadle, 2009 , p. 319), due in part to the rapid growth of digital content worthy of long‐term retention...

... material into a repository. Archives management Automation Digital storage The definition of technical appraisal given here also applies to the associated (and implied) future task of technical re‐appraisal. This paper assumes that the function of re‐appraisal, especially technical re...

... to the network participants. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Digital storage Information networks United States of America Archiving If the first decade of the twenty‐first century was the decade of mass digitization, the second decade looks likely to become the decade of digital...

...‐mail. Document handling Archiving Obsolescence Digital storage Computer software Fifteen years ago, Jeff Rothenberg's seminal article in Scientific American entitled “Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents” drew public attention to the problem of format obsolescence: … digital...

... digital collections. Economic sustainability Storage management Digital storage Cost effectiveness No one can claim to calculate all of the costs a cultural memory organization might incur as it embarks on the relatively new journey of digital preservation. The field is still in its infancy...

... libraries Digital storage Germany National libraries The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) is the national library and national bibliographic information centre for the Federal Republic of Germany. It is responsible for collecting, processing and bibliographic indexing of all German and German...

... management Organizations Australia Digital storage In the context of preserving digital objects, these ideas generally hold true. Like the information scored into a clay tablet, all digital information is stored in a physical medium, such as a hard disk, and therefore is vulnerable to the same...

... management Digital storage Digital libraries Content management The strength of the Stanford model, represented in Figure 2 , is the way it maps emerging academically oriented digital content on a suite of library digital repository and preservation services. The model explicitly presumes...