With an ever-increasing volume of digital records and compliance requirements mandated by regulations, electronic record archiving grows to be more and more important in the digital era. The fundamental functionality of digital archiving includes keeping data content intact and providing provable evidence of events ever happened to the data. The main challenges of long-term digital archiving in...

Secure archiving of authenticated and sensitive documents is becoming a necessity due to the dematerialization of paper based documents and processes. Huhnlein et al. combined the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model, Evidence Record Syntax (ERS) with Secret Sharing and proposed the Comprehensive Reference Architecture for Trustworthy Long-Term Archiving of Sensitive Data. Ho...

Web archiving is the process of collecting and preserving web content in an archive for current and future generations. One of the key issues in web archiving is that not all websites can be archived correctly due to various issues that arise from the use of different technologies, standards and implementation practices. Nevertheless, one of the common denominators of current websites is that t...

As businesses move to generating more documents in purely digital form there is a need for providing digital archiving solutions to complement traditional paper archives. This thesis describes the investigation into the viability of a secure digital archive. Issues treated include, long-term data storage, secure transfers over a public network and an overview of current archiving laws. A protot...

A prerequisite for digital preservation is to be able to capture and retain the content which is considered worth preserving. This has been a significant challenge for web archiving, especially for websites with embedded streaming media content, which cannot be copied via a simple HTTP request to a URL. This paper describes the approach taken by the British Library in capturing and replaying st...

A computer system that improves the quality, user-friendliness, accessibility, and management of radiology data (images, reports, databases, knowledge) was implemented at a private institute. A picture archiving and communication system (PACS) was integrated with the radiology information system (RIS). Two servers and 12 personal computers form the integrated system. The first server is dedicat...

In the experimental evolution of microbes such as Escherichia coli, many replicate populations are evolved from a common ancestor. Freezing a population sample supplemented with the cryoprotectant glycerol permits later analysis or restarting of an evolution experiment. Typically, each evolving population, and thus each sample archived in this way, consists of many unique genotypes and phenotyp...

Conventional Web archives are created by periodically crawling a Web site and archiving the responses from the Web server. Although easy to implement and commonly deployed, this form of archiving typically misses updates and may not be suitable for all preservation scenarios, for example a site that is required (perhaps for records compliance) to keep a copy of all pages it has served. In contr...

Many studies have now reported the positive correlation between Open Access (OA) self-archiving and citation counts ("OA Advantage," OAA). But does this OAA occur because (QB) authors are more likely to self-selectively self-archive articles that are more likely to be cited (self-selection "Quality Bias": QB)? or because (QA) articles that are selfarchived are more likely to be cited ("Quality ...

Next generation sequencing platforms are producing biological sequencing data in unprecedented amounts. The partners of the International Nucleotide Sequencing Database Collaboration, which includes the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), and the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), have established the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) to prov...