Digital preservation researches - European situation

Rimvydas LaužikasInstitute of Library and Information Science, Vilnius

University, Lithuania

E mail: rimvydas.lauzikas@kf.vu.lt

Context

• This research is part of DPE project, “Research roadmap”

• More information:

http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/

Why digital preservation?

• Jonas Palm “The digital black holes”

But frequently.......• projects costs:- for creating the digital

materials – 99 %- for preserving of the

digital materials- 1 %• real costs:- for creating the digital

materials – 10 %- for preserving the digital

materials- 90 %

Digital preservation thematic model I

Digital preservation thematic model II

Countries

Methods

• Domain – search results were filtrated by European countries domain name zones and DP topics

• Independent criteria - research results were compared to independent variables: population (Eurostat), Gross Domestic Product (International Monetary Fund ), total amount of web in corresponding internet domain zones, Euro-creative index (R. Florida, I Tinagli), Research and development intensity coefficient (Towards a European Research Area Science, Technology and Innovation, Key Figures 2005)

By countries

.uk - 76100

Country

.ua

.tr

.se

.ru

.pt

.pl

.nl

.lv

.lt

.yu

.it

.ie

.hu

.gr

.fr

.fi

.es

.ee

.dk

.de

.cz

.ch

.bg

.be

.at

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ital p

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Countries clusters

Subcluster

By topics

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REPOSITORIES

ENTITIES

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QUALITY

ECONOMIC

ACCESS

STORAGE

METHODS

STRATEGI

METADATA

LEGAL

APPRAISAL

SELECTION

STRAT PLANNING

CONCEPTS

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Topics by countries I

countries

.ua

.tr

.se

.ru

.pt

.pl

.nl

.lv

.lt

.yu

.it

.ie

.hu

.gr

.fr

.fi

.es

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.de

.cz

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METADATA

LEGAL

APPRAISA

SELECTIO

STRAT PLANNING

CONCEPTS

Topics by countries II

countries

.ua

.tr

.se

.ru

.pt

.pl

.nl

.lv

.lt

.yu

.it

.ie

.hu

.gr

.fr

.fi

.es

.ee

.dk

.de

.cz

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.bg

.be

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QUALITY

ECONOMIC

ACCESS

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METHODS

STRATEGIES

Topics by countries III

countries

.ua

.tr

.se

.ru

.pt

.pl

.nl

.lv

.lt

.yu

.it

.ie

.hu

.gr

.fr

.fi

.es

.ee

.dk

.de

.cz

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.bg

.be

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PROCESS

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REPOSITORIES

ENTITIES

PROBLEMS

Updating coefficient = total number of web pages / number pages, that was updated

within the past 3 months

DP topics

Process

Managem

ent

Tools

Repositories

Entities

Quality

Economic

Storage

Methods

Strategies

Metadata

Legal

Appraisal

Selection

Strategic planning

Concepts

DP+research

Digital preservation

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Pearson correlation with independent criteria

Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

Independent criterias Digital preservation research totalPopulation (mil) 0,194314987GDP (mil USD) 0,444154179

WWW (mil) 0,26447852Euro creative class index 0,102069214

Research and development intensity coeficient 0,058405648

Relation between independent criteria and DP researches

countries

.ua

.tr

.se

.ru

.pt

.pl

.nl

.lv

.lt

.yu

.it

.ie

.hu

.gr

.fr

.fi

.es

.ee

.dk

.de

.cz

.ch

.bg

.be

.at

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ue300

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Population 000 000

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WWW 000 000 0

DP research www 0

Regression between GDP and DP researches

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