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Open Document Format
Unlike Microsoft’s suite, which creates files in a proprietary formats, Open Office’s files are in formats which are open. ODF (Open Document Format) is an ISO standard and a European Union...
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Spreadsheet authenticity
Preserving a spreadsheet on its own isn’t enough. As with word processed documents, you need to keep metadata about the spreadsheet, capturing information about: · the department or organisation which...
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Borghoff et al: Long-Term Preservation of Digital Documents: Chapter 1
Notes from Borghoff et al. General intro to the field. Defines long term as “over 50 years.” In principle, bitstreams can be kept indefinitely. But the bitstream is inaccessible without an adequate...
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Borghoff et al: content migration
Notes from Chapter 3 of Borghoff et al. Migration never ends. This means that organisations have to establish a proper strategy, and try to routinize it as much as possible. It helps too to migrate...
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Summary of our organisation’s current digital preservation strategy
Here’s what got approved last year: Records are always accepted for preservation if they (a) meet the terms of the normal collecting policy and (b) are in a format openable on the current IT platform....
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“Digital Archiving Circa 2008: Addressing Long-Term Data Storage and...
Heidi is an anlyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group and her thoughts on digital archiving in 2008 are available here. The main points which interest me in Heidi’s article are: too many companies get...
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OAIS 10: Preservation perspectives
Noted from OAIS. Section 5 of the OAIS model explicitly addresses practical approaches to preserve digital information. The model immediately ties its colours to the migration mast. “No matter how well...
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“Planning and Implementing Electronic Records Management” by Kelvin Smith
Planning and Implementing Electronic Records Management: a practical guide (Hardcover) by Kelvin Smith (Author), Publisher: Facet Publishing (Oct 2007), ISBN-10: 185604615X. Available from Amazon....
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Some arguments in favour of emulation over migration
Geoffrey Brown of the Indiana University Department of Computer Science has a nice presentation available online which talks about the CIC Floppy Disk Project, and which along the way argues the case...
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RODA: Portugal’s new digital preservation repository
RODA (Repository of Authentic Digital Objects) is a Portuguese initiative to preserve government authentic digital objects. It is based on Fedora Commons, and supports the preservation of text...
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