Provides an overview of the main ethical and associated political-economic aspects of the preservation of born-digital content and the digitization of analogue content for purposes of preservation. The term ‘heritage’ is used broadly to include scientific and scholarly publications and data. While the preservation of heritage is generally seen as inherently ‘good’, this activity implies the exe...

Predicting the costs of long-term digital preservation is a crucial yet complex task for even the largest repositories and institutions. For smaller projects and individual researchers faced with preservation requirements, the problem is even more overwhelming, as they lack the accumulated experience of the former. Yet being able to estimate future preservation costs is vital to answering a ran...

Predicting the costs of long-term digital preservation is a crucial yet complex task for even the largest repositories and institutions. For smaller projects and individual researchers faced with preservation requirements, the problem is even more overwhelming, as they lack the accumulated experience of the former. Yet being able to estimate future preservation costs is vital to answering a ran...

Allogenic osteochondral tissue (OCT) is used for the treatment of large cartilage defects. Typically, OCTs collected during the disease-screening period are preserved at 4°C; however, the gradual reduction in cell viability during cold preservation adversely affects transplantation outcomes. Therefore, improved storage methods that maintain the cell viability of OCTs are needed to increase the ...

The distribution of inorganic arsenic (As) species in groundwater sample, including As(III) and As(V), requires adequate preservation to prevent the adsorption caused by precipitates of Fe oxyhydroxides. Twenty-two groundwater samples with varied As and Fe concentrations were collected from high-As catchments in Taiwan. After filtration of samples in the field, inorganic As species were immedia...

We report the preliminary results of PrestoPRIME, an EU FP7 integrated project, including audiovisual (AV) archives, academics and industrial partners, focused on long-term digital preservation of AVmedia objects and on ways to increase access by integrating media archives with European on-line digital libraries, specifically Europeana. Project outcomes will result in tools and services to ensu...

We still do not know how to archive digital scientific publications, works of art, images and sound recordings, files, primary data and music in such a way as to make them permanently readable and therefore accessible for all time. However, publications and information sources on new media are already ubiquitous as indispensable aspects of working in the fields of science, research, culture and...