This paper deals with a description of activities in the Czech Republic related to digital archiving. First of all the general situation in the field is described in order to give insight in the state of art in the field in the Czech Republic. The key part of this paper deals with a description of the design and implementation of a pilot system that should serve for digital archiving of scienti...

Regulatory compliance, legal discovery and storage management issues are driving more organizations to consider email archiving. Here's what you should know when making decisions about your organization's use of email archiving technology.

This chapter discusses the historical development, current practice and future prospects of the self-archiving of research papers in open-access repositories (socalled ‘e-print archives’). It describes how the development of interoperable e-print repositories in a number of subject communities has shown that self-archiving can benefit academic researchers (and potentially others) by enabling qu...

The importance of Web archiving has been recognized since the early days of the World Wide Web, due to the ease with which online information can be lost. Web archiving efforts can take place both at a global level, as well as at national and local levels. In this work, we describe ongoing work on archiving the Web sites of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). We describe the...

PACS PACS stands for “Picture Archiving and Communication System”. The term is traditionally used to describe the system which handles the archiving of all medical images generated by a hospital. The primary purpose of PACS was to end the use of film as the legal mode of archiving medical images, and to provide the ability to diagnose from these images with a computer. Over the years, the inter...

Introduction Endoscopy is an integral part of the evaluation of a variety of otolaryngology-related complaints. Recording and archiving endoscopic findings is useful for a variety of reasons: the ability to compare examinations over time; as a contribution to medical research; and to improve colleague, trainee, and patient education.1–7 The cost of video recording and archiving units available ...

The field of Web Archiving exists in a fluid, fragmented, and heterogeneous state. Part of the problem is that this field is relatively new and its literature is scattered across a wide range of journal and conference venues. This makes the state of Web Archiving as a discipline particularly difficult to ascertain. This paper presents an approach to building a collection of articles about the s...

CODATA and ERPANET collaborated to convene an international archiving workshop on the selection, appraisal, and retention of digital scientific data, which was held on 15-17 December 2003 at the Biblioteca Nacional in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop brought together more than 65 researchers, data and information managers, archivists, and librarians from 13 countries to discuss the issues involve...

Web archiving has been gaining interest and recognized importance for modern societies around the world. However, for web archivists it is frequently difficult to demonstrate this fact, for instance, to funders. This study provides an updated and global overview of web archiving. The obtained results showed that the number of web archiving initiatives significantly grew after 2003 and they are ...