Abstract
This paper aims to give state-of-the-art information about digital preservation activities in the Czech Republic during the last decade to an English-speaking audience. We briefly describe major phases of the “digital†projects. These were mainly in libraries, with some references to museums, galleries and archives. We focus on aspects related to the preservation of collected born-digital and digitised content. Even now, digital preservation activities in heritage institutions are often on the periphery of the interest of all stakeholders and the infrastructure supporting digital preservation of data in heritage institutions is not well financed or coordinated. Even though the “long decadeâ€, which lasted from the dramatic events of 2002 until approximately 2014, saw a number of successful projects creating digital data in Czech libraries, the handful of projects which were in part focused on digital preservation were not flexible enough to accommodate user requirements and were failing to meet expectations. There is still much room for further development in the area of long-term preservation of digital data in the Czech Republic. This article is a shortened version of one of the analyses written under the “Strategy of the research, development and innovation for the years 2010–2015†program of the Moravian Library in Brno, Czech Republic.
Highlights
When the waters of the Vltava River started to rise in the summer of 2002, nobody expected the unprecedented catastrophe
First to be flooded was the Zbraslav Chateau, surrounded by the river several kilometres south of Prague, where the cellars housed a vast collection of Czech plastic art, with thousands of collection items
The historical plans describing the floods of the 19th century did not help the managers of the National Gallery, which housed its collection both in Zbraslav Chateau and in the centre of the city in St
Summary
When the waters of the Vltava River started to rise in the summer of 2002, nobody expected the unprecedented catastrophe. The historical plans describing the floods of the 19th century did not help the managers of the National Gallery, which housed its collection both in Zbraslav Chateau and in the centre of the city in St. Agnes’ monastery. Archives and museums around the country the descriptions of the floods of the 19th century were useless: the plans dealt with regular 100 year high waters, but what came from the south in 2002 was the 1,000 year water. This was caused, among other things, by inconsiderate forestry and land management during the 20th century. The advance of the internet and digital technologies coincided with this moment, and the shaken employees of the heritage institutions realized the preservation potential in digitization
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