“Towards Open Science” was het thema van de Liber conferentie en het lijkt op een nieuw buzzword na jaren van “Open Access”. Maar waar Open Access zich richt op de eindresultaten, dus de artikelen in tijdschriften, richt Open Science zich op transparantie van het hele wetenschappelijke proces. En bibliotheken kunnen daar een grote rol in spelen, volgens Dr Jean-Claude Burgelman, hoofd van unit Science Policy and Foresight van de Europese Commissie (zie ook http://scienceintransition.eu/ ). “Libraries are the knowledge brokers for Open Science”, luidde het in zijn lezing. Open Science is een grote verandering in denken (paradigm shift) maar biedt ook mogelijkheden, als meer transparantie, meer waar voor je geld en een betere relatie tussen wetenschap en de gemeenschap (society). Het thema Open Science staat hoog op de agenda van de Europese Commissie en we zullen dat in Nederland merken als we volgend jaar voorzitter van de EU worden. Ook Sir Mark Walport (chief Scientific Advisor van HM Government in de UK) zag ‘electronic publishing’ als de “second Gutenberg”, omdat het zoveel kansen biedt, betere indexering, betere vindbaarheid en ‘evoluerende’ artikelen doordat zowel positieve als negatieve feedback in nieuwe versies verwerkt wordt (ik denk dan, hoe bewáren we dat?). De impact van wetenschap kan groter worden als er meer gedeeld wordt via Open Science. Continue reading
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Web archiving is often about collecting the web. But part of the work is also related to preserving the web. One of the working groups in the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) is focused on this aspect. Recently we published an article in the D-Lib magazine, called Facing the Challenge of Web Archives Preservation Collaboratively: The Role and Work of the IIPC Preservation Working Group. The article was written by Andrea Goethals, Clément Oury, David Pearson, Tobias Steinke and me. In this article we inform you about our goals, activities and results in the Preservation Working Group. We also report the findings of a survey we did amongst the (around 50) members of the IIPC in 2013 and their approaches to preserving the web. And we want to point you to a set of databases we are maintaining, with crucial information for web archiving, like the Environments Database and the Risks Database. Happy reading!
The current version of the KB’s digital repository system (e-Depot) doesn’t include any tools for automated file format identification yet. Our previous DIAS system didn’t have identification functionality either. As a result, information on file formats in digital our collections is largely based on publisher metadata and file extensions. Neither are necessarily correct. Moreover, previous analyses revealed a number of prevalent file extensions that could not be easily linked to a specific format. One result of this situation was that we couldn’t even reliably tell to what extent patrons were able to view e-Depot content on the PCs in our reading rooms (the obviously common formats aside).
To get a better view of the formats in our collection, we did an analysis of the “top 50” most prevalent file extensions in our e-Depot: what are the corresponding formats, can these formats be automatically identified, and can we render them in our reading rooms? This blog post summarises the main findings of this work.
Originally posted on: http://digitalpreservation.nl/seeds/dutch-digital-developments/
Some interesting developments are taking place in the Netherlands with regard to (preservation of) the digital heritage. Initiated by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science the Network Digital Heritage (NDE) was set up. The participants in this network are national organizations with large digital collections, like the National Library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) , the Institute of Sound and Vision, the Cultural Heritage Agency, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Archives, together with other partners like for example the knowledge center DEN.
Back in 2012 the KB conducted a first investigation of the suitability of the EPUB format for long-term preservation. The KB will soon start receiving publications in this format, and in anticipation of this, our Collection Care department has formulated a policy on the minimum requirements an EPUB must meet to ensure long-term accessibility. The policy largely follows the recommendations from the 2012 report. This blog explores to what extent it is possible to automatically assess the EPUBs that we receive against our policy using a combination of the Epubcheck tool and Schematron rules.
De KB neemt deel aan verschillende werkgroepen van de NCDD (Nationale Coalitie Digitale Duurzaamheid). Een van de werkgroepen gaat over certificering van duurzame bewaarplaatsen van digitaal materiaal. In Nederland zijn er steeds meer organisaties die grote hoeveelheden digitaal materiaal duurzaam bewaren, de KB is er één van, maar ook het Nationaal Archief, Beeld & Geluid, DANS en 3TU hebben grote digitale magazijnen (repositories). Iedereen gaat er van uit dat deze instellingen professioneel werken en dat de digitale collecties daar veilig zijn. Maar toch zal dit vertrouwen periodiek duidelijk aangetoond moeten worden aan externe partijen: via audit en certificering. De NCDD werkgroep Certificering heeft zojuist een folder gepubliceerd, die je achtergrondinformatie over certificering geeft. Welke methodes zijn er, wat is de meerwaarde, en wie zou zich moeten laten certificeren? Je kunt de folder downloaden van de NCDD website
Barbara Sierman
Author: Barbara Sierman
Originally posted on: http://digitalpreservation.nl/seeds/oops-article-preserved-references-gone/
Recently an article was published by Klein, Van de Sompel e.a. in PLOS1 (see under), drawing attention to the problem of “reference rot”. Reference rot is a combination of link rot (a reference to a link on the web results in an error message 404) and content drift (the page can be found but the content has been changed.) References in academic publications have a purpose: they underpin the argument. References can point to other scholarly publications but a growing amount of references in scholarly publications refer to sources on the Web. And especially these sources are prone to reference rot (the referenced “publications” having – at least theoretically – a bigger chance of being preserved by national libraries or organisations like CLOCKSS and Portico).
Author: Barbara Sierman
Originally posted on: http://digitalpreservation.nl/seeds/crystal-clear-digital-preservation-a-management-issue/
Raising awareness for digital preservation was a frequently used phrase when I started in this field ten years ago (never regretted it, hurray!). We preservationists have made progress. But the story is still not explaining itself. So I like reading how others persuade and convince people. Recently I found a book that really does the job. In crystal clear language, without beating about the bush and based on extensive up to date (until 2014) literature, digital preservation is explained and almost every aspect of it is touched upon. Edward M. Corrado and Heather Lea Moulaison have done a great job with their Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives and Museums , Rowman and Littlefield, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8108-8712-1 (pbk.) — ISBN 978-0-8108-8713-8 (ebook).
Originally posted on: http://digitalpreservation.nl/seeds/the-gold-standard/
This is the text of a presentation I held at the combined 4C/DPC conference ‘Investing in Opportunity: Policy Practice and Planning for a Sustainable Digital Future’ in London 17-18 November 2014 at the Wellcome Trust.
A few months ago I was in Copenhagen and as I like shopping in a foreign country and take something with me to remind me of my trip , I bought a golden ring. Well, not gold, it was gold plated and after a few months of wearing is was a silver ring. Was that a disappointment? The design was still nice and the ring still fitted. But it did no longer match my other rings. And I was not expecting this to happen so soon. And if instead of silver, the next layer would have been brass or nickel or copper, I really would have been disappointed and felt betrayed. So it was gold, turned to silver and yes that did matter.
No one would appreciate a trustworthy digital archive turning from gold to silver…
Last week the Digital Preservation Coalition hosted the Digital Preservation Awards 2014 at the Wellcome Trust in London. Thirteen projects in four categories were shortlisted. One of the finalists for the OPF Award for Research and Innovation was our own Jpylyzer project. Although the award did not go to Johan van der Knijff’s JP2 validation and extraction tool, the voters did leave some positive comments that we would like to share.
This is what our peers said about Jplylyzer
- Deciding first and second place was a close call for this category. Jpylyzer is narrowly ahead.
- A much-needed tool — eminently practical and useful.
- It is a key tool for us in the validation of JP2 files.
- Good project which allows people to deal with large volumes of data.
- A practical tool that addresses a practical problem with good uptake.
- It’s nice to see tools that do jobs really well. This is one of them and helps content managers demystify a complex format.
- This project offers a straightforward solution to a problem.
- Demonstrates high level of innovation with focus on value to the community.
- Important to remember that the file handling challenges continue and JHOVE wasn’t a magic bullet.
- A thorough research proposal which resulted in a practical use case for the Royal Library of the Netherlands. Encouraging to see wider adoption of Jpylyzer across the digital preservation community.
- A very useful tool, simple to use and meeting a need. What’s more, it’s free.
- I know Jpylyzer has been an incredibly useful tool for a number of digital preservation initiatives. While I’m not familiar with it personally a number of users have commented to me on its usefulness.
Johan van der Knijff with William Kilbride
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