Preservation of Digital Holdings
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Preservation of Digital Holdings


LC has over eight terabytes of digital data in the American Memory Project. Keeping that useful with changing technology will be a challenge. Library of Congress, San Diego Supercomputer Center to Evaluate SDSC SRB Data Grid for Preservation of Digital Holdings
Today, powerful data grid technologies such as the Storage Resource Broker (SRB), developed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) for scientific computing, are showing promise of being able to preserve these digital holdings. SDSC and Library of Congress are collaborating to evaluate the SRB data grid software for preservation and management of priceless national digital collections - part of the nation's heritage - for decades and centuries into the future.




- Preservation Metadata
The final products of the PREMIS Working Group are now available for download:Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final Report of the PREMIS Working Group (May 2005) (PDF:3.2MB/237pp.)This publication includes the PREMIS Working Group Final Report,...

- Oai
Enhancing Infrastructure for OAI: the DLGrid contributed by Kurt Maly and Mohammad Zubair appears in the current issue of D-Lib.In the DLGrid project supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation we plan to enhance key infrastructure components of the...

- Preservation Metadata
April 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine includes the paper: Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity by Brian F. Lavoie.As cultural heritage institutions, businesses, and government agencies invest more and more resources...

- Preservation Metadata
OCLC is conducting a survey of those using preservation metadata.Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS), a working group sponsored by OCLC and RLG, seeks information about digital preservation repositories. The focus of PREMIS is on...

- Metadata
First Monday has the article "A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience" by Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, Samantha Kelly Hastings, and Cathy Nelson Hartman.This paper discusses the issues...



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