BABS2: A New Phase, A New Perspective In Digital Long-Term Preservation - An Experience Report From The Bavarian State Library

BABS is an acronym for Library Archiving and Access System (Bibliothekarisches Archivierungsund Bereitstellungssystem), which constitutes the infrastructure for digital long-term preservation at the Bavarian State Library (BSB). During the two-year project BABS2 funded by German Research Association (DFG) BSB focuses together with the LeibnizSupercomputing Centre (LRZ) on advancing its organizational and technical processes under the aspect of trustworthiness according to the nestor criteria catalogue. Important achievements are e.g. framing an institutional policy for digital preservation including local, regional, national tasks of a large-scale research and archive library, conducting and evaluating a survey concerning the archiving requirements of all BSB departments, documenting the ongoing archiving processes, introducing an appropriate quality management and improving the scalability of the preservation system. Additionally BSB participate in different national and international committees. This experience report sheds light on the various organizational and technical aspects which have to be taken into consideration when enhancing an existing infrastructure for digital long-term preservation.