SUNScholar/Digital Preservation/Electronic Archives Preservation Policy

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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

Research

  • http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17776: Will your research assets survive the ravages of time, redundancy, mismanagement and decay? Planning for digital preservation within higher education institutions: Ina Smith: 2010-07
  • http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/14769: Growing research in Africa : Stellenbosch engaging open access to information: Ina Smith: 2011-05-24

Strategic Objective 1 - Long Term Support

Strategic Objective 2 - Preservable Digital Objects

Strategic Objective 3 - Electronic Citation Management

The objective is to use and keep on using, a short simple meaningful hostname (internet domain name) for the research institutional electronic archive.

Each institution should choose a unique internet domain name for the research institutional repository.

It is very important to avoid changing the internet domain name of the research institutional repository 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

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Digital Object Identifiers

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References

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