Preservation and Access
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Preservation and Access
Major Questions
- How do we ensure this digital project lives on beyond the grant or funding term?
- How can we back up our data?
- Why is Open Access important?
- How can we protect copyrighted material, while making other sources available and open for use?
- Does metadata matter for long-term preservation?
Findings
Preservation and Access Resources
- Preserving Digital History, from Digital History (Cohen & Rosenzweig)
(list from IMLS)
Preservation
- Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-term Problems, a tutorial by the Cornell University Department of Preservation and Collections Maintenance.
- D-Lib Magazine has many articles on preservation of digital materials.
- Care for Collections: Digital Materials, Connecting to Collections Guide to Online Resources, Institute of Museum and Library Services.
- Curation Centre
- Review by Maureen Pennock of Digital Preservation, edited by Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner, Ariadne, Issue 50, 30 January 2007.
- Digital Preservation site of the Library of Congress
- List of tools and services designed, developed, or used by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program(NDIIPP) partners during their projects, on the digital preservation Web site of the Library of Congress.
Open Access | Intellectual Property
- Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College
- Cornell University’s Copyright Information Center
- Digital slider for determining copyright protection
- Digital Future Coalition
- 08.pdf International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation, (pdf) a joint report of the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, the Joint Information Systems Committee, the Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project, and the SURFfoundation.
- Creative Commons licensing tools
- SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) author addendum to agreements with publishers.
- Open Source Initiative approved software licenses
- Society of American Archivists report (pdf) that provides methods to use when attempting to identify and locate copyright holders.
