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OAIS 6: Mandatory OAIS responsibilities
Noted from the OAIS model. The OAIS model generally is not prescriptive, but it contains one section (3.1) where it lays out the responsibilities that an organisation must discharge in order to operate...
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Borghoff et al: Emulation
Notes from Borghoff et al. Emulation has some notable advantages over migration, not least that it guarantees the greatest possible authenticity. The document’s original bitstream will always remain...
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OAIS 7: Representation Information
Noted from OAIS. Representation Information is a crucial concept, as it is only through our understanding of the Representation Information that a Data Object can be opened and viewed. The...
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“Digital Preservation” by Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner
Digital Preservation (Digital Futures Series) (Hardcover), by Marilyn Deegan (Editor), Simon Tanner (Editor). Hardcover: 260 pages; Publisher: Facet Publishing (18 Sep 2006); ISBN-10: 1856044858....
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OAIS 8: the Designated Community
Noted from OAIS. It strikes me that the concept of the Designated Community is central to how an OAIS even begins to think about its digital preservation. No one is saving records just for fun. They...
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OAIS 9: Information flow processes
Noted from OAIS. The OAIS reference model groups all the various processes happening within an archive into six basic entities. The Ingest entity receives the SIP and turns it into an AIP for storage...
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OAIS 10: Preservation perspectives
Noted from OAIS. Section 5 of the OAIS model explicitly addresses practical approaches to preserve digital information. The model immediately ties its colours to the migration mast. “No matter how well...
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“Planning and Implementing Electronic Records Management” by Kelvin Smith
Planning and Implementing Electronic Records Management: a practical guide (Hardcover) by Kelvin Smith (Author), Publisher: Facet Publishing (Oct 2007), ISBN-10: 185604615X. Available from Amazon....
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“Secrets and Lies” by Bruce Schneier
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (23 Jan 2004) ; ISBN-10: 0471453803. Available from Amazon. OK, so it’s a book about digital security, not about digital preservation. But if there was a book on...
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Web archiving
Review of and notes from Julien Masanes’s chapter on web archiving in Deegan and Tanner’s Digital Preservation (2006). This book also contains a chapter by Elisa Mason looking at some web archiving...
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