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Johnson Museum Online
• 15,800 works on paper• 6,700 objects in Asian
collection• high resolution,
medium resolution, and thumbnail
• Luna Browser Insight II software
SagaNetNational and UniversityLibrary of IcelandCornell University Library
Cornell’s Digital Library
• Collaboration with author (beyond retrodigitization)• Digitization service (consultation on imaging)• Common framework (technical standards,
metadata, interoperability)• Multimedia• Metadata • Copyright• User Interface• Archiving
Libraries and Preservation
• Many libraries are committed to providing enduring access as a core value
• Most have insufficient funds to preserve their holdings
• Only a few libraries make major investments in preservation
Double Bind
• Libraries are maintaining parallel formats at significant expense.
• Libraries won’t drop paper until publishers can guarantee electronic archiving.
• Readers expect both paper and digital.
• Publishers are maintaining parallel formats at significant expense.
• Electronic archiving important – 76% agree very well– 21% agree somewhat
• Libraries should retain paper– 48% very well– 30% somewhat
Faculty Survey
Which One is the Librarian?
• Publishers and librarians don’t trust one another.
• Publishers worry about loss of assets in an open archive.
• Librarians fret that commitment to the bottom line will overshadow intention to preserve.
Project Prism • Describes risks in Web environment
• Develops risk management methodology
• Creates tools and policies for virtual remote control
• Web crawlers and other automated tools – Identify and quantify risks– Implement measures to
prevent, mitigate, and recover from damage to and loss of Web-based assets
Mellon-Funded Journal Archiving Projects
• Move beyond discussion to action– Cornell (Agriculture)– Harvard (Individual publishers)– MIT (Dynamic Journals)– NYPL (Performing Arts)– Stanford (Archiving software, tools)– University of Pennsylvania (University Presses)– Yale (Elsevier)
Key Assumptions in Mellon Projects
• Archives should be independent of publishers• Archiving is core mission of institution with
archival responsibility.• Archiving is for long-term (100 years or more- not
daily use)• Archives should conform to standards and best
practices and be subject to auditing and certification.
• Open Archival Information System as basis
• Subject-based (Agriculture)
• Investigating:– Conditions under which publishers willing to
deposit digital copies in an external repository– Development of prototype architecture– Development of preservation strategies and
goals– Sustainable business plan
Spectrum of Archiving Solutions
• “Dark” archive• Strip formatting to ASCII to simplify tracking and
maintenance• No access until trigger event
• Hybrid• Lit metadata, dark data
• “Lit” archive • Full access to journal content
Cornell-Project HarvestSept. 6 Meeting with Publishers
• Archiving important• All publishers intend to keep current and retrospective
issues available; want to archive themselves• Publishers less concerned than librarians about
“artifactual” archiving • Some publishers unaware of archival requirements• Publishers not enthusiastic about “lit” archives• Librarians want trusted third-party archiving (90% of
respondents preferred multiple custodians to a single party preserver)
Next Steps
• Endorse final version of Attributes of Trusted Repository
• Develop formal Cornell digital preservation policy
• Seek support for implementation of math archive
• Continue research and share work with others
Subject-Based Repository Building Blocks
• Cornell Math Collection • Project Euclid • Zentralblatt Math mirror• arXiv.org• PROLA /APS• EMANI (Electronic Mathematics Archiving
Network)• NSF Digital Mathematics Library Planning Grant
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/IMLS/
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial
http://www.diglib.org/preserve.htm
www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september01/09contents.html
Subject-Based Digital Repositories by Anne Kenney and Nancy McGovern, (forthcoming from CLIR)
RLG/OCLC Working Group, Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources. Draft for Public Comment. http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf