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Support policies and procedures should be put in place that ensure the proper technical and financial resources are made available to support the electronic archive system in perpetuity.
 
Support policies and procedures should be put in place that ensure the proper technical and financial resources are made available to support the electronic archive system in perpetuity.

Revision as of 11:06, 8 December 2011

Introduction

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Definition

IJDC

Refer: http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/63/42

Preservation can be thought of as communication with the future. Information that is understood today is transmitted to an unknown system in the future where it will be interpreted and displayed. The future system may have not only different hardware and software, but also different standards for encoding information.

From: The International Journal of Digital Curation, Issue 1, Volume 3, 2008, Towards a Theory of Digital Preservation, Reagan Moore, Page 8.

Motivations

Vannevar Bush

Thomas Jefferson

"...let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident." February 18, 1791. From: http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Home

Douglas Adams

"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." From: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams

Leonardo da Vinci

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." From: http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/3069

Strategic Objective 1 - Electronic Citation Management

The objective is to have a short simple meaningful hostname for the research institutional electronic archive that will never change.

Each institution should choose a unique institutional internet domain name for the respository. It is very important to avoid changing the institutional internet domain name as this will impact very negatively on the usefulness of electronic scholarly citations and the capacity of other electronic systems to automatically harvest the electronic archives data using programmed internet bots.

Therefore a simple and meaningful hostname (URL) is preferred. For example: http://scholar.sun.ac.za

Web Analytics

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Webometrics Best Practices

Digital Object Identifiers

Electronic Citation Metrics

General

Specialised

Services

Electronic Citation Management

Strategic Objective 2 - Long Term Support

The objective is to ensure that the research institutional electronic archive is supported by the institution for the extremely long term.

Support policies and procedures should be put in place that ensure the proper technical and financial resources are made available to support the electronic archive system in perpetuity.

Technology that has published standards should be used as a platform for the electronic archive system. For example: http://www.dspace.org and http://www.ubuntu.com

Capacity Planning

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Capacity Building

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Strategic Objective 3 - Preservable Digital Objects

The objective is to create and store digital objects in the research institutional electronic archive, that can be read by future systems and technology.

The objective is to preserve material by converting it to a digital object format in such a way that the digital objects created may be read and understood by future technology systems.

The resultant digitised objects must adhere to the following:

  1. Use an uncompressed bitstream for storage
  2. Use published digital format standards and metadata schemas

Types of digital formats and codecs

In-browser readers/viewers for PDF documents and multimedia

Digital Object Registries

Electronic Metadata Schemas

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

References

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