Preservation Of Digital Assets Research Articles

Community Stories and Institutional Stewardship: Digital Curation’s Dual Roles of Story Creation and Resource Preservation

Our institutions of record are facing a new digital knowledge management challenge: stakeholder communities are now expecting customized Web interfaces to institutional knowledge repositories, online environments where community members can contribute content and see themselves represented, as well as access archived resources. Digital curation can be used to address these knowledge management challenges. Digital curation must involve both digital asset preservation and the important value-added function of facilitating user understanding of and engagement with digital resources. This paper presents a model of digital curation that embraces both the digital preservation challenge and the community engagement challenge.

Using XFDU for CASPAR information packaging

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the use of XML formatted data unit (XFDU) technology to implement OAIS‐based information packaging in the CASPAR project.Design/methodology/approachThe paper outlines new tools and techniques in working with XFDU for the purpose of preserving complex digital information.FindingsThe preservation of digital assets was facilitated by using the features of XFDU in the CASPAR project.Practical implicationsThe paper is of interest to those responsible for the archival or long term preservation of digital assets.Originality/valueThe paper demonstrates new tools and techniques, which together provide an integrated system suitable for solving complex issues of preserving digital assets using information packaging.

Preservation of Digital Assets: One Approach

Preservation of Digital Assets: One Approach

Digital preservation in the tertiary education sector: management implications

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to assess the future of long‐term curation and preservation of digital assets with particular reference to Further Education (FE) in the UK.Design/methodology/approachReviews current requirements of digital preservation and the efforts underway to support them. Drawing on other recent work and the author’s experience in a recent development project it subsequently comments on these efforts in the context of FE.FindingsArgues that the long‐term curation and preservation of digital assets produced by further education colleges should not be the responsibility of those colleges.Research limitations/implicationsWritten with direct reference to the UK; how the suggested solution would be applied elsewhere remains undeveloped.Practical implicationsNational memory institutions should strive to establish collaborative curatorial practices with the FE sector.Originality/valueSuggests that the preservation of digital assets in the FE sector requires a different approach than the HE sector.