Digital Preservation

Digital Preservation through Digital Sustainability

The concept of digital sustainability introduces a holistic approach on how to maximize the benefits of digital resources for our society. The nine basic conditions for digital sustainability also provide a contribution to potential solutions to the challenges of digital preservation. Elaborateness, transparent structures, semantic data, distributed location, an open licensing regime, shared ta...

Chronopolis Digital Preservation Network

The Chronopolis Digital Preservation Initiative, one of the Library of Congress’ latest efforts to collect and preserve at-risk digital information, has completed its first year of service as a multimember partnership to meet the archival needs of a wide range of domains. Chronopolis is a digital preservation data grid framework developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San D...

Digital Preservation Metadata Standards

Digital Archives and Preservation

DEFINITION Preservation is the set of processes that maintain the authenticity, integrity, and chain of custody of records for long periods of time. Authenticity is defined as the management of provenance information about the creation of the record. Integrity is defined as the ability to create an authentic copy. Chain of custody tracks all processing done to the record, including migration to...

Digital Preservation: Implementation and Challenges

Digital preservation is the active management of digital information over time to ensure ongoing access to the data. It is the management and maintenance of digital objects (the files, or groups of files, that contain information in digital form) so they can be accessed and used in future. It is error-free storage of digital information, with means for retrieval and interpretation, for the comp...