Figoblog, dans le billet Partager les fonctions d'archivage:

"La partie 6 de l'OAIS (qu'est-ce que c'est ?) intitulée "Archives Interoperability" n'est pas la plus connue du modèle. Pourtant elle n'est pas inintéressante. [...]"

"La version en cours de relecture (jusqu'au 15 juin !) pour la révision quinquennale de l'OAIS ajoute une chose importante, la possibilité de partager un répertoire de formats. Mais le paragraphe ajouté me semble flou au possible.

J'aurais aimé que la partie 6.2 développe les contraintes de management des archives partagées, et pas seulement des archives fédérées. Mais je crois que j'ai loupé le coche, il va falloir attendre la prochaine révision, dans 5 ans :-("

SPAR (Système de préservation et d'archivage réparti) est le projet de conservation à long terme de la BNF.

Voir le cahier des clauses techniques (pdf)

Via Antoinette

Le UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme a été évalué: le rapport est disponible ici (pdf).

"LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an e-mail archiving system which enables institutions to keep licensed e-journal content on local servers so that in the event that the material is no longer accessible from the publisher's servers, users can still access it. LOCKSS is an open-source, peer-to-peer, decentralised, digital preservation infrastructure that was developed, and is still maintained, by Stanford University Library. The UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme is based at the University of Glasgow and supports a community of UK LOCKSS users comprising of thirty UK Higher Education Institutions. The report considers the future sustainability of the UK LOCKSS Programme and contains recommendations."

Via liste JISC-Repositories

Galyani Moghaddam, Golnessa (2008), Preserve Scientific Electronic Journals: A Study of Archiving Initiatives. The Electronic Library 26(1):pp. 83-96.

This paper seeks to review the archiving initiatives of scientific journals created and supported by various organizations or institutions. A review of nine archiving initiatives including JSTOR, Portico, E-Print Repositories, Open Access Model, LOCKSS, OCLC Digital Archive, JISC PubMed Central and KB e-Depot was carried out. The paper focuses mainly on the initiatives by an analytical approach. The paper provides a useful starting-point to anyone who wants to know about the preserving scientific electronic journal, enabling him/her quickly to achieve an overview of the existing archiving initiatives to date.

Déposé sur E-LIS (06/04/08)

JPEG 2000 – a practical digital preservation standard? [ pdf ]

Un rapport publié par la DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition).

The report is aimed at organisations involved in the management and storage of digital information. The in-depth report will help archives, libraries and other institutions make informed decisions about JPEG 2000 format and their future storage needs.
JPEG 2000 can reduce storage requirements by an order of magnitude compared to an uncompressed TIFF file. Dr. Buckley says, “This new format has come at a time of heightened awareness about the access to digital documents. Any format that can assist archives and libraries to do this is welcome.”

Institutional Repositories and E-Journal Archiving: What Are We Learning?
(source: Educause)

The growing need for institutions to capture and maintain access to their administrative and academic information is driving the exploration of organizational models for digital preservation. Among the approaches being developed are institutional repositories and e-journal archives.

Le JISC a publié une étude intitulée:

Scoping Study for a Registry of Electronic Journals That Indicates Where They Are Archived (pdf)

A propos de la nécessité d'un "registre", d'un outil où centraliser les informations relatives aux périodiques électroniques: où sont-ils archivés? quels sont les accès possibles? comment "tracer" les mouvements entre éditeurs, entre plateformes (agrégateurs et autres fournisseurs)? L'objectif serait bien évidemment de disposer d'une sorte de support d'aide à la décision (choix des types d'abonnements, choix des packages, etc.). L'étude passe en revue notamment une série d'initiatives qui se sont penchées ou se penchent sur cette question.

Via DigitalKoans

Le blog de Revues.org signale cette initiative d'Internet Archive, Around the World in 2 Billion Pages, à laquelle CLEO (à l'origine de Revues.org) a participé l'année dernière.

Liens:

- Internet Archive
- Around the World in 2 Billion Pages
- Hritrix Web Crawler

Purdue e-Scholar est composé de:

- e-Archives
The digitized archives and special collections of Purdue University

- e-Pubs
A digital document repository including e-books, papers, reports, dissertations, journal articles, and other documents by Purdue authors

- e-Data
An online research data repository containing data sets and data files of Purdue researchers

Via Infomine

Seamus Ross, Digital Preservation, Archival Science and Methodological Foundations for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007):

"Digital libraries, whether commercial, public or personal, lie at the heart of the information society. Yet research into their long term viability and the meaningful accessibility of their contents remains in its infancy. In general, as we have pointed out elsewhere, ‘after more than twenty years of research in digital curation and preservation the actual theories, methods, and technologies that can either foster or ensure digital longevity remain startlingly limited.’ Research led by DigitalPreservationEurope and the Digital Preservation Cluster of DELOS has allowed us to refine the key research challenges—theoretical, methodological, and technological—that need attention by researchers in digital libraries during the coming five to ten years if we are to ensure that the materials held in our emerging digital libraries are to remain are sustainable, authentic, accessible, and understandable over time. Building on this work and taking the theoretical framework of archival science as a foundation this paper investigates digital preservation and its foundation role if digital libraries are to have long-term viability at the centre of the global information society."

Via Lorcan Dempsey's weblog