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Digital Preservation: "How will I read this conference content in 25 years time"- A strategic role for HEAnet in digital preservation. Marie Reddan Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference. Overview. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Digital Preservation: "How will I read this conference content in 25 years time"- A strategic role for HEAnet in digital preservation Marie Reddan
Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference
+Overview
Data Stewardship - Digital Preservation and Curation
Issues in digital preservation
Current activity in Ireland in creating digital content
Challenges arising from digitisation projects
Lifecycle management of data - advantages of a co-ordinated approach
Advocacy and progress to date
Advancing a national strategy for digital preservation
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Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference
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+Data Stewardship
“ …Preservation entails standards-based, active management practices that guide data throughout the research life cycle, as well as ensure the long-term usability of these digital resources…”
“ …Curation involves ways of organising, displaying, and repurposing preserved data…”
To stand the test of time: long-term stewardship of digital data sets in science and Engineering …ARL / National Science Foundation …2006
www.arl.org/pp/access/nsfworkshop.shtml
Preservation Curation
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+Issues in digital preservation
Preservation of the object in itself not enough
Speed of technological change BBC Domesday project
http://www.atsf.co.uk/dottext/domesday.html
Volume of digital content National heritage / national importance Importance of national strategies and infrastructure
Digital preservation will not happen by chance
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+Current activity in Ireland in creating digital content Huge investment in research and resultant digitised output
Academic Research
Government funded Research Projects
Libraries and Archives
Research Institutions
Not just print …multimedia
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+ Challenges arising from digitisation projects
Nature and Lifecycle of projects
Awareness of research work in progress
Technical support issues
Funding problems
Importance of Standards
Issues of selectivity for long-term preservation
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+ Lifecycle management of data - advantages of a co-ordinated approach
Generally accepted and applied standards
Ability to aggregate and organise content created
Ability to build on content created – innovation and creativity
Centralised or distinct sources of expertise Promotion, education and training Technical support
Active management of data Preservation for long term usability Curation of data / re-purposing of preserved data Security of content
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Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference
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+Advocacy and progress to date
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+Irish Manuscripts Commission
Develop a comprehensive, inter-departmental framework to implement a national strategy for a digital infrastructure linked to a trusted digital repository;
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Irish Manuscripts Commission
Digitisation Policy
2007
http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/downloads/IMC%20DTF%20report%20210607.pdf
Devise a national strategy that is flexible enough to respond to the dynamic nature of digitisation projects and the technology underpinning them; it must also aim to ensure that digitised resources/ objects are openly accessible, and developed using internationally recognised protocols for data capture and long-term digital preservation;
+Royal Irish Academy
Digital Humanities Observatory DHO
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ADVANCING HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
RESEARCH
IN
IRELAND
a report by the Royal Irish Academy
2007
http://www.ria.ie/policy/pdfs/website.pdf
The DHO was established to manage and co-ordinate the increasingly complex e-resources created in the arts and humanities. It will enable research and researchers in Ireland to keep abreast of international developments in the creation, use, and preservation of digital resources.
+Funding Bodies
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET)
“ …Suitable repositories should make provision for long-term preservation of and free public access to, published research findings …”
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+Advancing a national strategy for digital preservation
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+ Role for HEAnet? Key role
Implementing and supporting a national Digital Preservation strategy at the technical level
How? In collaboration with key stakeholders
Why HEAnet? Data storage is a key strategy of HEAnet Is the Irish national academic and research network - working with all Irish HE and Research Institutions
Is a major player in international networking Technical expertise Is responsible for the shared infrastructure which is built, maintained and updated
Storage is part of that infrastructure which can be maintained and preserved
Building on what we already have
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+Finally ….
–”… it is not for us ordinary monks to know where the information is actually kept: it is enough that we can be given access to it when we need it …”
Like the Librarian in the Book …
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Digital Preservation: "How will I read this conference content in 25 years time” - Part 2: DHO Preservation Strategies
Don Gourley, IT Manager, Digital Humanities Observatory
Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference
+Digital Humanities Observatory
Part of the Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS) consortium to develop an all-island inter-institutional research infrastructure for the humanities
Defining, promoting and implementing best practices for… Digitisation Archival Curation Discovery Presentation
3 years funding under cycle four of the Programme of Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI)
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+Addressing preservation in 3 years
Work with partners
Exploit national infrastructure and services
Create interoperable and shared services
Promote and deploy best practices
Implement specific preservation strategies
Create preservable digital content
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+HSIS partners: digital content creation and use An Foras Feasa
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) Dublin City University (DCU) Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT) St. Patrick's College
The Global Ireland Institute University College Dublin (UCD) Institute of Technology, Tallaght (ITT) Queen’s University Belfast
Texts, Contexts, Cultures National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) Trinity College Dublin University College Cork
Unaffiliated HSIS Partners National College of Art and Design (NCAD) Royal Irish Academy University of Ulster
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+e-INIS partners: technical support and infrastructureICHEC, Grid-Ireland, HEAnet
Systems development supportWeb hostingNational federated data storeData management and preservation services
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+DHO infrastructure for digital preservation
“View digital preservation as a series of holding positions, or perhaps as a relay. Make your dispositions on the basis of the timescale you can foresee and for which you have funding. Preserve your objects to the best of your ability, and hand them on to your successor in good order at the end of your lap of the relay. In good order here means that the digital objects are intact, and that you have sufficient metadata and documentation to be able to demonstrate authenticity, provenance, and to give future users a good chance to access or use those digital objects.”
Chris Rusbridge, 2006
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+Best practices for digital preservation
Take care of the bits (backup, refresh, etc.)
Keep content discoverable, accessible, usable & re-usable
Implement strategies to ensure content is “in good order” Standards Migration Encapsulation
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+DHO preservation strategies: standards
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Application profiles
Object structures
Metadata schemas
Data formats
Encoding formats
METS
XML
ISO-8859-1
TIFF
JPEG
RDFTEI
Dublin Core
DC Education
community-specific
genericPCM
WAV
+DHO preservation strategies: migration
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Application profiles
Object structures
Metadata schemas
Data formats
Encoding formats
METS
XML
ISO-8859-1
TIFF
JPEG
RDFTEI
Dublin Core
DC Education
Unicode
JPEG2000
PCM
WAV
+DHO preservation strategies: encapsulation
Structured digital objects Persistent digital object identifier Representation documentation Provenance information Context Fixity Content datastreams
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+“How will I read this conference in 25 years time?”
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ASXWMV
PPT
PHP HTML
+Questions?
I have a few . . .
Selection?Funding?Access rights?Authenticity?…?
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