Long-Term Preservation of Digital Records: Trustworthy Digital Objects

Appraising digital records for long-term preservation

This paper aims to extract lessons from archivists’ experience of appraising electronic records that are likely to have wider application in the preservation of other digital materials, including scientific data. It relies mainly on the work of the Appraisal Task Force of the InterPARES project on long-term preservation of authentic electronic records to develop a picture of the process of appr...

Long-Term Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage

Much of the new information created today is in digital form and needs to be archived that way. Older information, mostly on paper, is in danger of becoming unreadable – or inaccessible and needs to be converted to digital form. In both cases, it is imperative that the digital files be usable even in a distant future, either because they are relevant to the functioning of a company, organizatio...

Long-Term Preservation of Digital Material

: Predicting Long Term Digital Preservation Costs

As we develop our ability to preserve digital collections through techniques such as migration and emulation, the decision process of what action to take and when to take it becomes increasingly complex. Cost is a crucial factor to consider but the financial implications of preservation planning decisions are not typically well understood. At a strategic level, there are also significant challe...

LIFE3: Predicting Long Term Digital Preservation Costs