Many ecology and evolution journals have recently adopted policies requiring that data from their papers be publicly archived. I present suggestions on how data generators, data re-users, and journals can maximize the fairness and scientific value of data archiving. Data should be archived with enough clarity and supporting information that they can be accurately interpreted by others. Re-users...

The archiving and maintenance of vast quantities of data is a key challenge for the current use of information technology. When storing large repositories, possibly mirrored at multiple sites, an archiving system aims to reduce both storage and transmission costs. Delta compression is a key component of many archiving and backup systems. A file may be stored succinctly as a sequence of referenc...

Because of the historical value of email in the late 20 and 21 centuries, Harvard University Libraries began planning for an email archiving project in early 2007. A working group comprised of University archivists, curators, records managers, librarians and technologists studied the problem and recommended the undertaking of a pilot email archiving project at the University Library. This two-y...

Medical images require immediate access by several physicians in different places within a medical facility and access to a critically injured person’s medical image, such as the x-ray, on time can be a key factor in the diagnosis and treatment of the patient. The electronic medical image archive system can help to solve the problem faced in previous physical medium archiving, thus increasing p...

In regard to the mechanism of content recruitment, institutional repositories (IR) at their initial stage of development in the early 2000s followed what subject-based repositories (SR) had already practiced for many years. Since then, self-archiving has become the primary way of aggregating digital collections for IRs, although recent operations and content materials of IRs have been more dive...

The Web-at-Risk project is a multi-year National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) funded effort to enable librarians and archivists to capture, curate, and preserve political and government information on the Web, and to make the resulting Web archives available to researchers. The Web-at-Risk project is a collaborative effort between the California Digital L...

It is a foregone conclusion that all refereed journals will soon be available online; most of them already are. This means that one can access them from any networked desk-top. The literature will all be interconnected by citation, author, and keyword/subject links, allowing for unheard-of power and ease of access and navigability. Successive drafts of pre-refereeing preprints will be linked to...