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Digital Preservation 101, or, How to Keep Bits for
Centuries
Julie C. SwierczekDigital Asset Manager and Digital
ArchivistHarvard Art Museums
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Digital Preservation==
Digital Archives
Archivevs.
Archives
digital storage
Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems
(CCSDS)
CCSDS 650.0-M-2, Reference Model for an
Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
ISO14721:2012: Space data and information
transfer systems – Open archival information system
(OAIS) -- Reference model
CCSDS 651.0-M-1, Producer-Archive Interface Methodology Abstract Standard (PAIMAS) (2004)
CCSDS 651.1-B-1, Producer-Archive
Interface Specification (PAIS) (2014)
CCSDS 652.0-M-1, Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDR)
(2011)
ISO16363:2012
CCSDS 652.1-M-2, Requirements for Bodies
Providing Audit and Certification of Candidate
Trustworthy Digital Repositories (2014)
Acquires and appraises
Arranges and describes
Research
Libraries vs. Archives
Libraries
Archives
Records
Papers
Unique
Key principles of archives
Provenance
Diplomatics
Original order
order matters
Original order
How do you deal with authenticity
and original order
in a digital realm?
only a model
something is better than nothing
Archival storage
Where are we going to store this stuff?
LOCKSS
Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe
lockss.org
Data Management
How are we going to be sure the bits are the same
over time?
Producer and Ingest
What are we going to preserve?
original fileand
derivative version
Library of Congress National Digital
Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
(NDIIPP)
Digital Formats Sustainability
www.digitalpreservation.gov
RAW and TIFF_UNC
Open, not proprietary formats
amount of storage
documents, data sets, audio, video, email,
executables, video games, virtual worlds, GIS data,
websites, social media
How are we going to get these digital objects?
digital forensics
data recovery
FC5025 USB 5.25” floppy controller
KryoFlux
eBay is the digital archivist’s friend
Retrocomputing or vintage computing
www.nowseethis.org
The Invisible PhotographPart 2: Trapped
Authenticity
authenticity
≠single instance
chain of custody
Preservation planning
How are we going to drag these digital files into the future?
monitor file format obsolescence
What are we trying to preserve?
key features
monitor files for durability and accessibility
NO ONE THOUGHT TO CHECK THE DISCS WHILE THE CONTENT WAS STILL
RECOVERABLE
refresh the storage media
record all actions taken on the files so that the chain of
custody is transparent
PREMIS
PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies
Working Group
Entities:
Objects Intellectual entities
RightsAgentsEvents
free and open source
Administration
Money
more storage?
Access
How are we going to access these items in the future?
retrocomputing
emulation
Multi Emulator Super System (MESS)
www.mess.org
JSMESS
Console Living Room https://archive.org/details/
consolelivingroom
Historical Software Collection
https://archive.org/details/historicalsoftware
Olive Executable Archive
https://olivearchive.org/
Archivists
General Records Schedule (GRS)
permanent records
email and other electronic records
EAS
EASi
electronic records
How is this going to be accessible in the future?
Documentation is our love letter
to the future.
Hybrid collections
Zip disks
Bernoulli disks
8.3 character filename
regis813.RPT
records and papers from other sources
Digital preservation
≠Backup copies
WITHOUT THE SPEAKER NOTES
*facepalm*
personal stuff?
personal digital archiving
http://digitalpreservation.gov/
personalarchiving/
Never rely on free cloud storage
You cannot save everything
label and organize
What story do you want to tell?
o tell?
critical editions
