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

De Lorenzo, Elettra (2007), La conservazione della memoria digitale : Questioni metodologiche e giuridiche. Degree thesis, Dipartimento di Scienze storiche e geografiche “Carlo Maria Cipolla”, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Corso di Laurea Specialistica in Scienze Archivistiche, Documentarie e Biblioteconomiche. (déposé sur E-LIS)

Résumé en anglais: "Thesis about situation of digital preservation and analysis of the present tools available to confront the responsibility of the preservation of this property and to guarantee it the public access in the time. The search leaves from a reflection of base on the concepts of preservation/conservation of the digital resources, with the different approaches of Librarians and Archivists and from the interest interdisciplinary It presents criteria and strategies of collection, you project, study and international initiatives, some examples of systems for the long term preservation of the digital resources from 1996 to today, internationals and in Europe. About the legal matters they confront themselves the author's rights, the legal deposit and the institutional and university repositories, particularly in present Italian normative. This Arguments treated in three chapters of the study: multidisciplinary of the problem; methods, policies of preservation, nets and models of deposit of the digital resources; Web archiving: systems and criteria of collection for the Web the sites of preservation; sources and international discussions of reference; initiatives and international projects (e.g. The Internet Archive, The Nordic Web Archive, PANDORA and PADI in Australia, PARADIGM in Norway) and in European Union; author's rights, copyright and copyleft, Legal Deposit, institutional repositories in Italian Universities, PhD and Master thesis. Review legal act. In addition Bibliography. References are relative to all sources."