The AABC Archivist's Toolkit: Digital Preservation

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General Resources
Authenticity
Digital Preservation Tools
Physical Preservation
Metadata
Digital Preservation Systems
Publications

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Revised: Apr 2012 KS

GENERAL RESOURCES

Library of Congress Digital Preservation

Electronic Records

Digital Initiatives at Library and Archives of Canada

Digital Preservation Coalition

Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)

Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities

Trustworthy Digital Repositories Audit & Certification (TDR)

Electronic Records: A Workbook for Archivists (ICA Study 16)

Model Plan for an Archival Authority Implementing Digital Recordkeeping and Archiving Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative

Reference list, part 1 \ Reference list, part 2
Storytelling in the 21st Century and Beyond: Preserving Digital Records for the Ages. Presentation to the BCMA conference by Lara Wilson, Kelly Stewart and Rosaleen Hill, Victoria, BC, November 20, 2008

AUTHENTICITY

The interPARES Project

eRecords Research (Report 2) : Functions, Activities, Resource Requirements Simon Fraser University Archives and Records Management Department

How to Preserve Authentic Electronic Records InterPARES Task Force

Preserving the Long-Term Authenticity of Electronic Records: The InterPARES Project Heather MacNeil, AABC Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring 2000

Requirements for Assessing and Maintaining the Authenticity of Electronic Records InterPARES Task Force

The Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records Duranti, Eastwood and MacNeil, School of Library, Archival & Information Studies, University of British Columbia

A First Look at the Acquisition and Appraisal of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Fonds: or, SELECT * FROM VANOC _Records AS Archives WHERE Value="true";

He Shoots, He Stores: New Photographic Practice in the Digital Age

A Comprehensive Approach to Born-Digital Archives

From Data to Records: Preserving the Geographic Information System of the City of Vancouver

Beyond the Magic to the Mechanism: Computers, Materiality, and What It Means for Records to Be "Born Digital"

From Digital Diplomatics to Digital Records Forensics

Where's the Archivist in Digital Curation? Exploring the Possibilities through a Matrix of Knowledge and Skills

DIGITAL PRESERVATION TOOLS

Bagit

DROID

File Information Tool Set (FITS)

JStor/Harvard Object Validation Environment

PRONOM

PHYSICAL PRESERVATION

Born Digital Photographs: Acquisition and Preservation Strategies Presentation developed by Rosaleen Hill and delivered at the 2006 AABC Annual Conference

Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Program Technical Guidelines Library of Congress

METADATA

DIGITAL PRESERVATION SYSTEMS

Archivematica

LAC Trusted Digital Repository

iRODS

Tessella

LOCKSS

COPPUL Private LOCKSS Network

DSpace

Greenstone

PUBLICATIONS

(for sources click here)

"Moments of Risk: Identifying Threats to Electronic Records" / David Bearman, Archivaria 62 (Association of Canadian Archivists, 2006)

"Managing the Long-term Preservation of Electronic Archives or Preserving the Medium and the Message" / Jacques Grimard, Archivaria 59 (Association of Canadian Archivists, 2005)

Access to Information in a Digital World / Karen Adams and William Birdsall (eds.) (Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, 2004)

Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records / Luciana Duranti, Terence M. Eastwood and Heather MacNeil (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002)

Managing Electronic Records, 2^nd ed. / William Saffady (Kansas: ARMA International, 1998)

MemoryBC

The British Columbia Archival Information Network

Gateway to British Columbia's Past