L'iPres 2009 (conférence internationale sur la conservation des objets numériques) se déroulait cette année à San Francisco du 5 au 6 octobre.

Voir le programme.

Voir ces billets via le Digital Curation Blog:

• iPres 2009 Keynote: David Kirsch
• iPres 2009 Conference 2: BRTF-SDPA panel
• iPres 2009: Lowood on why Virtual Worlds are History
• iPres 2009: Wilkes on preservation in product lifecycle management
• iPres 2009: Schmidt on a framework for distributed preservation workflows
• iPres 2009: Pawletko on TIPR’s progress towards interoperability
• iPres 2009: Conway on a Preservation Analysis Methodology
• iPres 2009: Wheatley on LIFE3
• iPres 2009: Kejser on Danish cost model on migration
• iPres 2009: Micah Altman Keynote on Open Data
• iPres 2009: Collaboration
• iPres 2009: Pennock on ArchivePress
• iPres 2009: Guttenbrunner on Digital Archaeology, recovering digital objects from audio waveforms
• iPres 2009: Kirschenbaum & Farr on digital materiality: access to the computers
• iPres 2009: Tarrant, the P2 Registry, Where the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 meet format risk management
• iPres 2009: Brown on font problems
• iPres 2009: van Horik on MIXED framework for curation of file formats

What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization

"[...] For journals that are principally accessed in digital form, preservation is the primary remaining role of the print original. This study analyzes the rationales for retaining some copies of scholarly journals in print format, determining that actual ongoing community needs for print materials in the face of high quality and well-preserved digitization are significant but not unlimited. [...]"

Un rapport Ithaka (via liste lib-license, 30/09/09) qui aborde notamment la question de la conservation (éventuelle) de la version papier des revues (et de quels types de revues)...

Au sommaire du dernier n° de D-Lib Magazine (sept.-oct. 09, vol. 15, n° 9-10):

Articles:

• Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR)

DataStaR is a data staging repository in development at Cornell University. A data staging repository offers unique opportunities to recruit data into domain and institutional data repositories, but as a transitory curation environment, it demands careful consideration of the role of such a repository in the full life cycle of research data. We describe our experience applying the Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification Criteria and Checklist as a framework for specifying system, policy, and documentation requirements to ensure that DataStaR is an effective partner in the entire chain of preservation activities.

• Subject-based Information Retrieval within Digital Libraries Employing LCSHs

In this article, an effort is made to take advantage of the inherent semantic wealth existing within Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSHs) in order to provide more efficient subject-based information retrieval in digital libraries. To formally express such wealth, an ontology schema is presented that is capable of modeling the semantics of LCSHs into adequate ontologies. Finally, in order to show the way towards exploiting such ontologies in favor of the development of more effective subject-based information retrieval in digital libraries, a prototype system is presented. The system contains an ontology modeling the LCSHs that are employed within a digital library of theses and dissertations. Serving as a proof of concept, the prototype describes a system capable of making the expressiveness of the underlying ontology readily available to end users while at the same time retaining simplicity and ease-of-use.

• Analysing Selection for Digitisation: Current Practices and Common Incentives

Over the past few decades, the explosion of digital and digitised documents and the addition of a purely digital facet to the documentary lifecycle have been forcing memory institutions from all sectors to address the same questions that the growth in analogue production necessitated in the early 20th century: Can/should all documents that pass the initial test of appraisal also remain stored indefinitely? What are the requirements for long-term preservation? At what point (if ever) do digital collections become too large to handle? And how can we decide what gets deleted? Individual institutions and collaborative research efforts alike have adopted a wide range of practices in their attempt to tackle these questions. We would expect the current phase of trial-and-error to move slowly towards a set of somewhat more uniformly adopted governing concepts and practices.

• OA Network: An Integrative Open Access Infrastructure for Germany

This article describes concepts, development, and implementation of an overall Open Access infrastructure for Germany. Currently, the joint project Open Access Network is facilitating comprehensive and value-added services built on top of distributed Institutional Repositories. Using the OAI-PMH as the harvesting mechanism, Open Access (OA) Network furnishes an open and extensible architecture to form the technological base for manifold enhanced services. It not only provides a personalized end user platform but also serves as an aggregator node for passing data to other service providers (e.g., DRIVER). Moreover, OA Network provides a testbed for the development of software to implement value-added services. OA Network is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

• Curriculum for Digital Libraries: An Analytical Study of Indian LIS Curricula

The information professionals of today must discharge their duties in a hybrid environment, one that deals with traditional print documents but digital documents as well. To make digital information management a reality, Library and Information Science (LIS) education programmes in India now include digital library courses in their syllabi. An attempt has been made in this article to analyze the digital library course content of LIS Master Degree programmes of selected University Departments/Institutions in India. The results are not encouraging. There is a need to devise innovative LIS programme content on digital libraries in the form of core and advanced elective courses.

Comptes rendus de conférence:

• Report on OAI 6: CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, Geneva 17-19 June 2009

• Purple Cows and Fringy Propositions: The Edinburgh Repository Fringe Festival 200

• Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection

(source: Harry Ransom Center / via ResourceShelf, 09/09/09)

• GBS va proposer les ouvrages du domaine public dans le format ePub

"The evidence is mounting that all the PDFs now in use by publishers and libraries will have to be retrospectively converted."

(source: liste LibLicense, 27/08/09)

• MANUSCRIPTORIUM: immense bibliothèque numérique de manuscrits et d’imprimés anciens

(source: BlogusOperandi Twitter, 27/08/09)

• A future for our digital memory: permanent access to information in the Netherlands (interim report)

Résumé en anglais d'une enquête menée aux Pays-Bas sur les différents projets de numérisation (académiques, du patrimoine).

(source: NCDD – Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation, 31/08/09)

Proceedings of DigCCurr2009: Digital Curation: Practice, Promise, and Prospects

"DigCCurr2009 continues the same general theme as the symposium two years earlier, focusing on current practice and research surrounding digital curation with a look toward the future, and trends in preparing digital curation professionals."

(source: School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Actes de la conférence DigCCurr 2009, 01-03/04/09 / sous licence CC)

Table des matières:

Concurrent Session 1:
A. Common Workflows: Health and Social Science Data Curation Collaborations
B. Comparing Curricula for Digital Library and Digital Curation Education
C. Distributed Custodial Frameworks for Archival Preservation
D. Funders’ Perspectives

Concurrent Session 2:
A. Education for Digital Curation:
Thinking Like a Digital Curator: Creating Internships in the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model
Qualification & Education in Digital Curation: the nestor Experience in Germany
Educating Archivists about Copyright: How Can We Do It Better?
Building Australia’s eResearch Capability: The Challenge of Data Management
B. Recordkeeping and Government Information Curation:
The Survival of Records (and Records Management) in the Twenty-First Century
Pathways to Preservation: Digital Curation Strategies in North Carolina State Government
MoReq2: a European Contribution to the Preservation of Electronic Records
C. Digital Curation of Humanistic, Multimedia Materials: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
D. Digital Curation Tools and Demos I
Creating a Preservation Plan Using the Preservation Planning Tool Plato
Hoppla - Digital Preservation Support for Small Institutions

Concurrent Session 3:
A. Metadata:
Effective Access to Digital Assets: An XML-based EAD Search System
Integrating Metadata into the NARA Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype via the OAI-PMH
Creating Metadata for a Digital Database: A Case Study
B. Curation of Scientific Datasets: Trends, Current Initiatives, and Solutions
C. Technology Learning for Digital Curators
D. Digital Curation Tools and Demos II
Prometheus: Managing the Ingest of Media Carriers
Mediapedia: Managing the Identification of Media Carriers
ContextMiner: Collect Different
Teaching with CONTENTdm in the Digital Curation Curriculum

Concurrent Session 4:
A. Digital Curation and Preservation Training and Education: A Panel to Consider Options and Intersections
B. Snapshot of Digital Preservation in Federal Libraries
C. Digital Curation Vignettes: Personal, Academic, and Organizational Digital Information
D. Cooperative Approaches to Digital Preservation

Concurrent Session 5:
A. Extending the Data Curation Curriculum to Practicing LIS Professionals
B. Archives in the Wild:
Everyone is a Curator: Human-Assisted Preservation for ORE Aggregations
Digital Curation and the Citizen Archivist
Use of Computer Forensics in the Digital Curation of Removable Media
C. Moving Web Archiving into the Classroom
D. Gaps and Persistent Challenges

Concurrent Session 6:
A. Personal Digital Archiving
B. Digital Curation Policy Issues
C. Scientific and Humanities Data Curation: “Able To Develop Much Larger and More Ambitious Projects”: An Exploration of Digital Projects Teams
Documentation Evaluation Model for Social Science Data: An Empirical Test
Data Access and Long-Term Data & Knowledge Preservation for Earth Science: An Overview on Some ESA Initiatives
D. Digital Curation Research:
Speech Acts and Electronic Records
Reconstructing the Digital Past: A Case Study of the Reconstruction of the Lost Pittsburgh Project
Identifying and Implementing Modular Repository Services

Concurrent Session 7:
A. Digital Curation for Cultural Institutions Web Access for the Museum of Anthropology’s Collection
Communicating Archives of Cultural Institutions: Venice as a Case Study
The Russian Doll Effect: A Case Study in Digital Artifact Recontextualization
Capturing a Plurality of Perspectives: A Framework for Developing Culturally Sensitive Curriculum and Digital Repositories
B. Skills for Significant Properties: Debating Pragmatics and Philosophy in an Area of Digital Curation
C. Change Management
D. Digital Curation Tools & Strategies
An Implementation of the Audit Control Environment (ACE) to Support the Long Term Integrity of Digital Archives
A Digital Library Service for the Small
Lessons Learned from the DISC-UK DataShare and Data Audit Framework Implementation Projects
Preservation Workflows, Strategies and Infrastructure

Poster Session:
A Residential Data Curation Internship: Opportunities and Challenges
Preserving Electronic Mailing Lists: The H-Net Archive
Federal Libraries Digital Preservation Census
Extending an LIS Data Curation Curriculum to Include Humanities Data
Data Management and Curation of Research Data in Academic Scientific Research Environments
Contextual Information from Blogs in Video Digital Curation
What Should We Teach about METS in a Digital Preservation Course?
Sustaining Digital Preservation Organizations: What Discourse Analysis Can Tell Us about Market Demand and Long-Term Survival
Getting the Tar Off Our Heels: Moving Forward with Archiving University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Websites

Au sommaire, notamment, du dernier n° de D-Lib Magazine (vol. 15, n° 7-8, juillet-août 09):

Articles:

• Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness: Lessons Learned from Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online Newspaper Archive

"This article will discuss how to measure the accuracy of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) output in a way that is relevant to the needs of the end users of digital resources. A case study measuring the OCR accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Newspapers Database provides a clear example of the benefits to be gained from measuring not just character accuracy but also word and significant word accuracy. As OCR primarily facilitates searching, indexing and other means of structuring the user experience of online newspaper archives, measuring the word and significant word accuracy of the OCR output is very revealing of a resource's likely performance for these functions. Having such data is therefore extremely helpful for planning and quality assurance assessment. After briefly discussing the role of OCR in the text capture process and how OCR works, we give a detailed description of the methodology, statistical data gathering techniques and analysis used in this study. Our conclusions point the way forward with suggested actions to assist other mass digitization projects in applying these techniques."

• Semantic Integration of Collection Description: Combining CIDOC/CRM and Dublin Core Collections Application Profile

"This article is motivated by the demand for unified access to the wealth of distributed digital cultural collections, allowing users to make queries and discover information about them through integrated processes. Our effort originates from the semantic interoperability perspective and considers CIDOC/CRM as the mediating schema, which integrates in an optimal way the semantics of the collection-level metadata schemas and application profiles. The research reveals the complexity of mapping metadata schemas to ontologies and resolves particular difficulties by presenting the crosswalk between Dublin Core Collections Application Profile and CIDOC/CRM."

Comptes rendus de conférence:

• JCDL 2009 Workshop Report: Lightweight User-Friendly Evaluation Knowledge for Digital Librarians

• Report on the First International Workshop on Innovation in Digital Preservation (InDP 2009)

• Doing So Much More: The Fourth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR09)

• ELPUB 2009 - Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies

Le projet européen PARSE.Insight a publié sa première newsletter :

"This Newsletter summarizes the first year’s goals and achievements of PARSE.Insight, a two-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. It is concerned with the preservation of digital information in science, from primary data through analysis to the final publications resulting from the research. Its aim is to develop a roadmap and recommendations for developing the e-infrastructure in order to maintain the long-term accessibility and usability of scientific digital information in Europe. The project conducts surveys and in-depth case studies of different scientific disciplines and stakeholders and it will base its results on these findings, as well as knowledge of ongoing developments. PARSE.Insight is closely linked to the Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science (http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/index.php?id=1). The output from the project is intended to guide the European Commission's strategy about research infrastructure. [...]"

La Statsbiblioteket au Danemark a mené une enquête, dans le cadre du projet PLANETS, afin de tenter de déterminer quelles sont les implications en matière de conservation des résultats de la recherche et de l'information scientifique à l'ère numérique.

Les résultats sont consultables ici :

"Findings indicate the central and growing importance of electronic communication to the academic community’s work and consequently of digital preservation. It explains what researchers believe should and should not be preserved and how far the policies, practices and software in their institutions are making this possible."

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 :-("

Italie - Les présentations du dernier séminaire CIBER (Comité interuniversitaire bases de données et édition en ligne) qui a eu lieu début juin sont disponibles ici:

A voir, notamment:

• Stato dell'arte dell'OA nel panorama nazionale e internazionale (Open access: état de la question en Italie et dans le monde)

• Il "viaggio" di una risorsa elettronica tra procedure, processi decisionali ed ERM (Le "voyage" d'une ressource électronique à travers les procédures, les processus de décision et l'ERM)

• Caratteristiche degli ERMS e bisogni delle biblioteche: verso una valutazione consapevole (Caractéristiques des ERMS et besoins des bibliothèques: vers une évaluation en connaissance de cause)

• Lettori di Ebook ad inchiostro elettronico e Quotidiani Digitali in Biblioteca. E' possibile? (Lecteurs d'e-book à encre électronique et journaux numériques en bibliothèque. Est-ce possible?)

• Verso la biblioteca 2.1 (Vers la bibliothèque 2.1)

• Oltre il libro - the e-book, the webook (Au-delà du livre - e-book, webook)

• From the social to the real time web (Du web social au web en temps réel)

• Garanzie a lungo termine per i materiali digitali: metadati di conservazione e identificatori persistenti (Conservation à long terme du matériel numérisé: métadonnées et identifiants persistants)

• Raccolta, Gestione ed Analisi delle Statistiche di Accesso ai Full Text (Récolte, gestion et analyse des statistiques d'accès aux textes intégraux)