Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries Export

@article{citeulike:2895187, abstract = {Abstract\ \ The difficulty and expense of preserving digital information is a potential impediment to digital library development. Preservation of traditional materials became more successful and systematic after libraries and archives integrated preservation into overall planning and resource allocation. Digital preservation is largely experimental and replete with the risks associated with untested methods. Digital preservation strategies are shaped by the needs and constraints of repositories with little consideration for the requirements of current and future users of digital scholarly resources. This article discusses the present state of digital preservation, articulates requirements of both users and custodians, and suggests research needs in storage media, migration, conversion, and overall management strategies. Additional research in these areas would help developers of digital libraries and other institutions with preservation responsibilities to integrate long-term preservation into program planning, administration, system architectures, and resource allocation.}, author = {Hedstrom, Margaret}, citeulike-article-id = {2895187}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1000676723815}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/h73v57h6587k4l7n}, day = {15}, doi = {10.1023/A:1000676723815}, journal = {Language Resources and Evaluation}, keywords = {digital\_libraries, digital\_preservation, ilol}, month = {May}, number = {3}, pages = {189--202}, posted-at = {2009-03-27 14:35:19}, priority = {0}, title = {Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1000676723815}, volume = {31}, year = {1997} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2895187 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2895187 N2 - Abstract  The difficulty and expense of preserving digital information is a potential impediment to digital library development. Preservation of traditional materials became more successful and systematic after libraries and archives integrated preservation into overall planning and resource allocation. Digital preservation is largely experimental and replete with the risks associated with untested methods. Digital preservation strategies are shaped by the needs and constraints of repositories with little consideration for the requirements of current and future users of digital scholarly resources. This article discusses the present state of digital preservation, articulates requirements of both users and custodians, and suggests research needs in storage media, migration, conversion, and overall management strategies. Additional research in these areas would help developers of digital libraries and other institutions with preservation responsibilities to integrate long-term preservation into program planning, administration, system architectures, and resource allocation. IS - 3 JF - Language Resources and Evaluation EP - 202 TI - Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries VL - 31 SP - 189 KW - digital_libraries KW - digital_preservation KW - ilol AU - Hedstrom, Margaret PY - 1997/05/15/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1000676723815 ER -