EU: Digitisation & Digital Preservation

Digitisation & Digital Preservation website of European Commission.

Digital preservation: Archivematica

Archivematica is a free and open-source digital preservation system that is designed to maintain long-term access to digital memory. Archivematica is packaged with the web-based content management system AtoM for access to your digital objects. (Wiki)

More info: Project and DATools

Digital curation: community

Digital Preservation Coalition (in the UK)

Digital Preservation Q&A : where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of the community. Moderated by the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) and Open Planets Foundation (OPF) 

Open Preservation Foundation (international, with a European base)

National Digital Stewardship Alliance (in the USA)

DCC Associates Network (DCC: Digital Curation Centre)

Digital Curation Exchange (USA based)

DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL Email discussion lists for the UK Education and Research communities

DigiPres Commons Community owned digital preservation resources

Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR) 

North West Region Digital Preservation Group: A group of Archivists in the North West looking at digital preservation issues.

Blogosphere:

The Signal: Digital Preservation

Practical E-Records

Future Proof

Digital Preservation Matters

DARTBlog: Blogging about digital archives, scholarship & repositories (University of London Computer Centre’s Digital Archives & Repositories Team)

Digital Preservation vs Digital Curation

Digital Preservation: “the active involvement of information professionals in the management, including the preservation, of digital data for future use” (Yakel 2007)
Digital Curation: “aims to ensure that digital objects of value to society…can be meaningfully reproduced over time, despite evolving representations, mechanisms, rapidly advancing technologies, and continually emerging user expectations” Foscarini, Kim et al (2010)

Model for digital preservation and digital repositories:

1. Digital Preservation Capability Maturity Model (DPCMM) (Dollar and Ashley 2012)
2. Shaman/Scape Capability Model (Becker et al. 2011)
3. Trusted Digital Repository Maturity Model (TDRMM) (Cho 2012)

More info in: Enterprise Content Management and Digital Curation Applications (UNESCO, Shadrack Katuu)

Digital preservation: good practices and trusted repositories

Library of Congress guidance on personal digital archiving

NESTOR (Network of Expertise in the Long Term Storage of Digital Resouces) 

Catalogue of Criteria for Trusted Digital Repositories (Version 1 - 2007)

Nestor-Handbuch: Eine kleine Enzyklopädie der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung (Version 2.3 - 2010)

Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification: Criteria and Checklist (TRAC) which was developed by OCLC's Research Libraries Group and the US National Archives and Records Administration and published in 2007.  

ISO 16363:2012 Space Data and Information Transfer Systems Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories

DIN 31644 Information and Documentation Criteria for Trustworthy Digital Archives (German)

Data Seal of Approval (DSA). 

Digital preservation: checksum

A checksum is a count of the number of bits in a transmission unit that is included with the unit so that the receiver can check to see whether the same number of bits arrived. If the counts match, it's assumed that the complete transmission was received. Both TCP and UDP communication layers provide a checksum count and verification as one of their services (Definition by SearchSecurity of network of technology TechTarget).

This blog post and video provide a good introduction to checksums in the context of digital preservation.
See this blog post for some advice on possible  tools.
See concept of significant properties and digital preservation of  InSPECT (Investigating the Significant Properties of Electronic Content Over Time)

File Formats for preservation

Selecting File Formats for Preservation, from the Paradigm Workbook on Digital Private Papers

Obsolescence: File Formats and Software, part of the Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Solutions, online tutorial developed for the Digital Preservation Management workshop, developed and maintained by Cornell University Library, 2003-2006; extended and maintained by ICPSR, 2007-2012; and now extended and maintained by MIT Libraries, 2012-on.

Recommendations on file formats for long term preservation, made by the UK Data Archive

Todd, M (2009). File formats for preservation from the Digital Preservation Coalition Technology Watch Report Series

File profiling tool:

File Format Identification of Community Owned Digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR)

DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)  which was developed by The National Archives (UK). 

Digital preservation: bit preservation and physical storage of the data

Sources of guidance on the handling and storage of storage media:

Digital Preservation Note 3: Care, handling and storage of removable media, guidance issued by The National Archives (UK)

Caring for CDs and DVDs, guidance issued by the British Library (under FAQs)

Obsolescence of digital material is explained by the National Archives of Australia.

Digital Preservation Guidance Note 2: Selecting Storage Media for Long Term Preservation, guidance issued by The National Archives (UK)

Henriksen, S. L., W. Seuskens and G Wijers, Best practices for a digital storage infrastructure for the long term preservation of digital files, one of the public deliverables from the EU funded Digitising Contemporary Art project.

USGS Guidelines for the Preservation of Digital Scientific Data April 2014

NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation

Technology Watch Reports by Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)

OCLC Research's You've Got to Walk Before you Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media (Erway Ricky, 2012)

OAIS Reference Model

ISO 14721:2012 – Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model (italian)

CSDS 652.1-M-2 – Requirements for Bodies Providing Audit and Certification of Candidate Trustworthy Digital Repositories . Magenta Book. Issue 2. (2014).

APARSEN: Integrated view of digital preservation

OAIS Community