Digital Preservation Resources

Digital Preservation Policies Study:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/jiscpolicyfinalreport.aspx
A major business driver in all universities and colleges over the past decade has been harnessing digital content and electronic services and the undoubted benefits in terms of flexibility and increased productivity they can bring. The priority in recent years has been on developing e-strategies and infrastructure to underpin electronic access and services and to deliver those benefits. However any long-term access and future benefit may be heavily dependent on digital preservation strategies being in place and underpinned by relevant policy and procedures. This should now be an increasing area of focus in our institutions.

This JISC funded study completed by Charles Beagrie Ltd aims to provide an outline model for digital preservation policies and to analyse the role that digital preservation can play in supporting and delivering key strategies for Higher and Further Education Institutions. Although focussing on the UK Higher and Further Education sectors, the study draws widely on policy and implementations from other sectors and countries and will be of interest to those wishing to develop policy and justify investment in digital preservation within a wide range of institutions.

Two tools have been created in this study:

1) a model/framework for digital preservation policy and implementation clauses based on examination of existing digital preservation policies;

2) a series of mappings of digital preservation to other key institutional strategies in UK universities and colleges including Research, Teaching and Learning, Information, Libraries, and Records Management.

Our aim has been to help institutions and their staff develop appropriate digital preservation policies and clauses set in the context of broader institutional strategies.


Grant
Grant Writing

• OCLC Resource: Grants writing, standards, online copyright, mailing list, electronic publications
  http://www.oclc.org/digitalpreservation/resources/default.htm
  

Grant Resources:

• NEH: National Endowment for the Humanities, Presernation and Access Awards, Devision of Preservation and Access.
  http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRR.html
  http://www.neh.gov/news/awards/preservationFeb2008.html

Oral History Resource

Baylor University's digital oral history archive (Good Metadata Example)
http://contentdm.baylor.edu/cdm4/index_08oralhist.php?CISOROOT=/08oralhist

Mark Twain Project (A project which uses TEI for their text standard)
http://www.marktwainproject.org/about_technicalsummary.shtml

Digital Audio Preservation

Digital Audio Best Practice
http://www.bcr.org/cdp/best/digital-audio-bp.pdf

UCLA Oral History Interview project has been following this practice to preserve our original interview audio files. The master audio files are in WAV format, it is also following the Red Book audio CD standard: 44.1hz, 16 bit, 2 channels stereo files: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard)

Yellow book and Red book standard:

Yellow Book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Book_(CD-ROM_standards)
The Yellow Book itself is not freely available. However, its content corresponds to the ISO/IEC 10149 and ECMA 130 standards; the latter can be downloaded at
Standard ECMA-130: Data Interchange on Read-only 120 mm Optical Data Disks (CD-ROM)

Red book:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard)Red Book is the standard for audio CDs (Compact Disc Digital Audio system, or CDDA). It is named after one of a set of color-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.
The first edition of the Red Book was released in June 1980 by Philips and Sony; it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc Committee and ratified as IEC 908. The standard is not freely available and must be licensed from Philips. At the time of writing, the cost as per the relevant Philips order form (document no. 28/10/04-3122 783 0027 2) is US$5000. As of 2006, the IEC 908 document is also available as a PDF download for $210

ECMA Standard Internet Speed:
http://www.ecma-international.org/ , Standard ECMA-130 is for data intervhange on read-only 120mm optical data disks.

Digital Image Preservation

For preservation of images (Photo, films, maps, artwork) , follow
BCR’s CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices Version 2.0 (June 2008)
http://www.bcr.org/cdp/best/digital-imaging-bp.pdf