AcknowledgementsForeword by Michael LeskList of Figures and TablesPrefacePART I: SITUATING DIGITAL PRESERVATION1.What is Digital Preservation?1.Digital Preservation Is Not.1.Digital Preservation Is Not Only About Backups and Recovery2.Digital Preservation Is Not Only About Access3.Digital Preservation Is Not an Afterthought2.Elements of Digital Preservation3.
Why Digital Preservation?4.Digital Preservation: A Management Issue5.Why Libraries, Archives, Museums?6.Conclusion2.Getting Started with the Digital Preservation Triad1.Steps in the Digital Preservation Process2.The Digital Preservation Triad3.Management1.
Policies and Planning for Digital Preservation2.Technology Decisions 3.The Question of Rights4.Resource Issues5.Outreach and Sustainability4.Technology1.Trustworthy Digital Preservation Systems2.Metadata3.
File Formats5.Content6.Copyright Issues7.Kinds of Content8.Conclusion3.PART II: MANAGEMENT ASPECTS1.The OAIS Reference Model2.History3.
OAIS Reference Model Components1.Vocabulary2.Information Model3.OAIS Functional Model4.OAIS Required Responsibilities 4.Conclusion4.Human Resources and Education1.Human Resources1.
Categories of Human Resources2.Education for Digital Preservation1.Digital Preservation and Digital Curation: What''s in a Name?2.University-Level Education for Digital Preservation3.Continuing Education for Digital Preservation4.Research in Digital Preservation3.Conclusion5.Sustainable Digital Preservation1.
Digital Preservation as Risk Management1.Involvement in the Creation Process2.Open and/or Well-Documented Standards and Systems3.Documentation of Decisions4.Accepted Standards for Metadata Schemas5.Needs of the User6.Exit Strategy7.Succession Planning8.
Other Considerations for Risk Management2.Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access1.Five Conditions Necessary for Digital Preservation Sustainability3.Factors Affecting Digital Preservation Sustainability1.Organizational Factors 2.Financial Factors3.Social and Societal Factors4.Technological Factors4.
Homegrown, Open Source, and Proprietary Software Development Models5.Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs)6.Conclusion6.PART III: TECHNOLOGY ASPECTS1.The Digital Preservation Repository and Trust2.Trust3.Trusted Repository Criteria and Checklists1.European Framework for Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories2.
TRAC, TRD, and ISO 163634.DRAMBORA5.Conclusion7.Metadata and Metadata for Digital Preservation1.Metadata in Digital Librarianship1.Descriptive Metadata 2.Administrative Metadata 3.Technical Metadata 4.
Structural Metadata 5.Mark-up Languages6.Structure of Metadata Files7.Metadata Schemas 8.Application Profiles9.Converting Records and Data to a New Format10.Metadata Generation and Creation11.Documentation2.
Metadata Necessary for Digital Preservation1.Preservation Description Information (PDI)2.Digital Preservation Metadata3.Metadata Specific to Digital Preservation1.PREMIS Model2.Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)3.METS Profiles4.Conclusion8.
File Formats and Software for Digital Preservation1.File Formats1.File Formats for Digital Preservation2.Evaluating File Formats for Digital Preservation2.Determining File Formats1.File Extensions2.MIME Internet Media Types3.File Format Registries4.
Why Are Registries So Difficult?3.Software to Help Identify File Formats1.Generic Tools2.File Type Specific Tools4.Conclusion9.PART IV: CONTENT-RELATED ASPECTS1.Collection Development2.Criteria1.
Existing Collections2.New Collections3.Conclusion10.Preserving Research Data1.Research Data1.Research Data Life Cycle2.Big Data3.Small Data as Big Data''s Counterpart2.
Metadata Schema for Science Data1.Directory Interchange Format (DIF)2.The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM)3.Darwin Core Schema4.Harvestable Scientific Metadata3.Open Data Initiatives1.The U.S.
National Science Foundation2.The U.S. National Institute of Health3.Other U.S. Initiatives4.English-Speaking Countries: Approaches to Open Data4.
Human Subjects and Data Preservation1.Challenges with Preserving Human Subjects Data5.Conclusion11.Preserving Humanities Content1.Computerizing the Humanities1.Big Data in the Digital Humanities2.Funding for the Digital Humanities3.Humanities Sources1.
Metadata Schema for Published Texts2.Metadata Schema for Digital Texts3.Metadata Schema for Encoding Visual Resources: Museum Artifacts4.Metadata Schema for Encoding Video and Sound4.Conclusion12.ConclusionAppendix: Select Resources in Support of Digital PreservationSelected Digital Preservation Organizations (Alphabetical)Selected Digital Preservation Consortium/Group InitiativesData Preservation (Alphabetical)Other Initiatives (Alphabetical)ReportsGeneral Reports on Digital Preservation (Most Recent Listed First)ArchivesMuseumsMetadataFile FormatsMoving ImagesMusicWebliographies and WebinarsWebliographies (Alphabetical)Webinars Books, Guides, and TextbooksOnline Digital Preservation GlossariesDirectories for Digital Preservation EducationCenters Supporting Research and Teaching in Digital Preservation (Alphabetical)Conferences and In-Person EventsCore Conferences on Digital PreservationRelated Conferences on Digital Preservation GlossaryBibliographyIndex.