SUNScholar/Preservable Digital Objects
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Preservable Digital Objects
The objective is to create and store digital objects in the research institutional electronic archive, that can be read and viewed by future systems and technology.
The resultant digitised objects must adhere to the following:
- Use an uncompressed bitstream for storage.
- Use open, royalty free and patent free, published digital format standards and metadata schemas.
- The next vital thing about preservable digital objects is to use the correct file naming procedures.
- The whole file name must be in small caps and have no spaces.
- Spaces must be replaced with dashes (-).
- There cannot be any other formatting characters such as ()#/ etc...
Digital Object Formats
Click on the heading above.
Conventions used on SUNScholar
File Names
Use the following file naming convention:
authorname-firstwordoftitle-2012.docx
or if saving as a pdf file, which is preferred:
authorname-firstwordoftitle-2012.pdf
or if saving as an open document standards file, which is more preferred:
authorname-firstwordoftitle-2012.odt
- References
Digital Object Formats
References
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Definitions
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation_Metadata:_Implementation_Strategies
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_standardization
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_format
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
- http://opendatahandbook.org/en/appendices/file-formats.html
- http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/framework3.pdf
- http://coptr.digipres.org/Main_Page
- http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Main_Page
Digital Object Preservation Services
- http://openpreservation.org
- http://4cproject.eu
- http://www.curationexchange.org
- https://www.archivematica.org
- http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation
- http://www.clockss.org
- http://www.preforma-project.eu
Electronic Archives Portability
On the portability of the electronic archive between electronic archive systems, please read: http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/3161
Contributions
- From Denise Nicholson
- http://libguides.wits.ac.za/digitalpreservation
- http://digi.nrf.ac.za/publ/Managing%20Digital%20Collections.pdf
- Ohio State University Library
- Ohio State University Library (OSUL) Documentation Examples
- Ohio State University Library (OSUL) Links
- http://library.osu.edu/blogs/digitalscholarship
- http://library.osu.edu/documents/digital-projects/OAIS_Report.pdf
- http://library.osu.edu/projects-initiatives/digital-projects/standards/outside-resources
- http://library.osu.edu/projects-initiatives/osu-records-management/records-information-management-resorces
- Ohio State University Library (OSUL) Contacts
