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)

Lasting Impact: Sustainability of Disciplinary Repositories by OCLC

OCLC Research has released a new Report: Lasting Impact: Sustainability of Disciplinary Repositories, written by Senior Program Officer Ricky Erway.  The report dated 11 May  "...is intended to help librarians support researchers in accessing and disseminating research information. The report includes profiles of seven repositories with a focus on their varied business models. It concludes with a discussion of sustainability, including funding models, factors that contribute to a repository's success, and ways to bring in additional revenue."

EC: Open access report 2011

National Open Access and Preservation Policies in Europe.
Analysis of a questionnaire to the European Research Area Committee

Open access report 2011

Italy: Open Access report 2011

Report by PLEIADI:

Open Access in Italy - 2011

Knowledge Exchange: "A Surfboard for Riding the Wave"

November 2011


The report  A Surfboard for Riding the Wave " builds ... and presents an overview of the present situation with regard to research data in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and offers broad outlines for a possible action programme for the four countries in realising the envisaged collaborative data infrastructure".


The report formulates three long-term strategic goals:
1. Data sharing will be part of the academic culture
2. Data logistics will be an integral component of academic professional life
3. Data infrastructure will be sound, both operationally and financially.

UE: "Riding the Wave"

October 2010, European Union
The report "Riding the Wave: How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data" is the result of six months of intense brainstorming and consultations with experts around the world to prepare a "vision 2030" for Scientific Data e-Infrastructures.
The report describes long term scenarios and associated challenges regarding scientific data access, curation and preservation as well as the strategy and actions necessary to realise the vision.