e-conservation 14 (2010)

Title: e-conservation
Issue: 14
Year: 2010
Link: http://www.e-conservationline.com/...
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Index:

Editorial, Rui Bordalo

Building Bridges in the Third Place, Daniel Cull

Reviews

Multidisciplinary Conservation – A Holistic View for Historic Interiors, ICOM-CC Interim Meeting, Ana Bidarra

VI Symposium of Art and Science: Conservation and Restoration of Decorative Arts, Rui Bordalo

Interview

Wikipedia Saves Public Art. An interview with Richard McCoy and Jennifer Geigel Mikulay, conducted by Daniel Cull

Articles
Conservation-Restoration Interventions in Extreme Cases: Improving the Structural Resistance of Wood Damaged by Biological Attack, Cornelia and Dinu Sãvescu

The Challenges of Digital Art Preservation, Lino García and Pilar Montero Vilar

ARP Proceedings

The Conservation-Restoration of the “Charola” Paintings of the Convent of Christ in Tomar, Frederico Henriques, Ana Bailão and Miguel Garcia

The Conservation and Preservation of a Photographic Print: The “Panoramic View of Constantinople”, Élia Roldão and Luís Pavão

Book Review

"Conservation. Principles, Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths", review by Cristabel Blackman

Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials (2004)

Title: Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files – Raster Images
Authors: Steven Puglia, Jeffrey Reed, and Erin Rhodes
Publisher: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Year: 2004
Pages: 87
Link: http://archives.gov/... (pdf, 1.59 Mb)

Scope:

The NARA Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access define approaches for creating digital surrogates for facilitating access and reproduction; they are not considered appropriate for preservation reformatting to create surrogates that will replace original records. The Technical Guidelines presented here are based on the procedures used by the Digital Imaging Lab of NARA’s Special Media Preservation Laboratory for digitizing archival records and the creation of production master image files, and are a revision of the 1998 “NARA Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access”, which describes the imaging approach used for NARA’s pilot Electronic Access Project. [...]

Article: image processing in medieval mosaic (2004)

Title: An application of image processing in the medieval mosaic conservation
Author: Barbara Zitová, Jan Flusser, and Filip Šroubek
Reference: Pattern Analysis and Applications vol.7, 1 (2004), p. 18-25 (2004)
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-003-0200-3
Link: http://library.utia.cas.cz/... (pdf, 927 Kb)

Alternative:
An application of image processing for the conservation of the medieval mosaic, IEEE 2002 International Conference in Image Processing, Rochester, New York, September 22-25, 2002, vol.3, pp. 993 - 996, DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2002.1039142
(pdf, 951 Kb)

Abstract:

We present an application of digital image processing techniques in medieval mosaic conservation. The reconstructed art piece was The Last Judgment mosaic, situated on the wall of the St. Vitus cathedral in Prague, in the Czech Republic. The historical photograph of the mosaic from the 19th century was compared with the photograph of the current state in order to detect mutual differences. The images were firstly pre-processed to increase their quality (noise reduction, deblurring). In the second stage, geometrical differences between images were removed by means of image registration techniques — mutual information and feature point correspondence. Finally, differences of the current and historical photographs were identified.

Article: Direct Digital Image Capture (2005)

Title: Direct Digital Image Capture: Current Practices and Problems
Author: Charles Rhyne
Reference: Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation, Vol. XXI (June 2005), pp. 214-219
Link: http://academic.reed.edu/... (html)

Abstract:

To document current practices, a survey was conducted of digital imaging procedures currently used at American Museums, Libraries, Archives, and other cultural institutions. Over forty institutions submitted answers to the questionnaire. Because no comparable survey has been conducted, the results should be of considerable interest to cultural institutions, indeed to anyone interested in high quality digital photography.

Report: Ensuring Perpetual Access- German National Hosting Strategy

Title: Ensuring Perpetual Access: Establishing a Federated Strategy on Perpetual Access and Hosting of Electronic Resources for Germany. Final Report, 2010.
Author: Charles Beagrie
Pages: 177
Year: 2010
Link: http://www.allianzinitiative.de/...
Download: http://www.allianzinitiative.de/... (pdf, 1.97 Mb)

From the Preface:

This study was conducted as basis for all further steps towards a national hosting strategy. It was financed jointly by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Helmholtz Association, the Leibniz Association and the Max Planck Society. The study is intended to be the starting point from which to arrive at concrete ideas and activities related to a coordinated national hosting strategy. The intensive, often controversial but always constructive and continuing discussion now expands out of the working group into the public area to be continued there in the same manner. Invited for further discussion are all stakeholders with responsibility in the German science system to establish and finance sustainable structures for perpetual access as well as long-term preservation for electronic resources.

Table of Contents:

1. Executive Summary
2. Overview of the Study Report
3. Introduction
4. The International Context
5. The Current Position in Germany
6. Views on The Future Position in Germany
7. Technical Infrastructure and Standards
8. Gap Analysis for a Federated Strategy on Perpetual Access and Hosting
9. Use Cases
10. Scenarios, Potential Solutions and Recommended Approaches
11. Future Development of the Strategy
12. References
13. Appendix 1 - Glossary and Definition of Terms
14. Appendix 2 - List of Interviewees
15. Appendix 3 - Supplement on Technical Standards

iPRES 2009

Title: iPRES 2009: the Sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects
Conference Date: October 5-6, 2009
Conference Venue: San Francisco, California, USA
Year: 2009
Link: online view and pdf of each article at http://www.escholarship.org/...
Download: Vídeos and presentations are available at http://www.cdlib.org/...

Table of contents:

Stephen Abrams, et al., An Emergent Micro-Services Approach to Digital Curation Infrastructure

Reinhard Altenhöner, e-Infrastructure and Digital Preservation: Challenges and Outlook

Martha Anderson, et al., The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Charter: Enabling Collaboration to Achieve National Digital Preservation

Emmanuelle Bermès, Louise Faudet, The Human Face of Digital Preservation: Organizational and Staff Challenges, and Initiatives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Geoffrey Brown, Kam Woods, Born Broken: Fonts and Information Loss in Legacy Digital Documents

Priscilla Caplan, et al., Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories (TIPR)

Esther Conway, et al., Curating Scientific Research Data for the Long Term: A Preservation Analysis Method in Context

Angela Dappert, Adam Farquhar, Implementing Metadata that Guides Digital Preservation Services

Angela Di Iorio, A Translation Layer to Convey Preservation Metadata

David Giaretta, et al., Significant Properties, Authenticity, Provenance, Representation Information and OAIS Information

David Giaretta, Tools for Preservation and Use of Complex and Diverse Digital Resources

Rebecca Guenther, Robert Wolfe, Integrating Metadata Standards to Support Long-Term Preservation of Digital Assets: Developing Best Practices for Expressing Preservation Metadata in a Container Format

Mark Guttenbrunner, et al., Digital Archeology: Recovering Digital Objects from Audio Waveforms

Ulla Bøgvad Kejser, et al., Cost Model for Digital Curation: Cost of Digital Migration

Matthew Kirschenbaum, et al., Preserving Access to Computers as Complete Environments

Christopher Lee, et al., Mainstreaming Preservation through Slicing and Dicing of Digital Repositories: Investigating Alternative Service and Resource Options for Context Miner Using Data Grid Technology

Henry Lowood, Memento Mundi: Are Virtual Worlds History?

Jens Ludwig, Into the Archive: Potential and Limits of Standardizing the Ingest

Brian Matthews, et al., Towards a Methodology for Software Preservation

David Minor, et al., Chronopolis: Preserving our Digital Heritage

Maureen Pennock, Richard Davis, ArchivePress: A Really Simple Solution to Archiving Blog Content

Klaus Rechert, et al., Novel Workflows for Abstract Handling of Complex Interaction Processes in Digital Preservation

Rainer Schmidt, et al., A Framework for Distributed Preservation Workflows

Sabine Schrimpf, Lessons Learned: Moving a Digital Preservation Network from Project Organization to Sustainability

Pauline Sinclair, et al., Are You Ready? Assessing Whether Organisations are Prepared for Digital Preservation

Johanna Smith, Pam Armstrong, Preserving the Digital Memory of the Government of Canada: Influence and Collaboration with Records Creators

David Tarrant, Steve Hitchcock, Les Carr, Where the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Meet Format Risk Management: P2 Registry

René van Horik, Dirk Roorda, MIXED: Repository of Durable File Format Conversions

Tyler Walters, Distributed Digital Preservation: Technical, Sustainability, and Organizational Developments

Paul Wheatley, Brian Hole, LIFE3: Predicting Long Term Digital Preservation Costs

Wolfgang Wilkes, et al., Towards Support for Long-Term Digital Preservation in Product Life Cycle Management

Disasters, displays, digitization (2006)

Title: Proceedings of the international Symposium the 3-D's of preservation: disasters, displays, digitization
Editor: Corine Koch
Event: Organized by the Bibliothèque nationale de France in collaboration with IFLA (IFLA Section on Preservation and Conservation IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation) Paris, France, March 8th-10th 2006
Pages: 144
Year: 2006
Download: http://archive.ifla.org/... (pdf, 1.24 Mb)

Table of Contents:

Forty Years Outside Looking in: Panaceas, Principles and Pragmatism, John McIlwaine

The Future of Preservation, Deanna B. Marcum

Session 1
The Never-ending Challenge: Disaster and Preservation in Chile, Ximena Cruzat A.
Foreseeing and Dealing with the Unforeseen - Library Disasters in Perspective, Per Cullhed
From Disaster Plan to Action Plan, Sarah-Jane Jenner
Le Plan d'Urgence de la Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Josiane Laurent
Towards a National Disaster Response Protocol, Randy Silverman

Session 2
Les conditions de conservation des Doscuments Graphiques et Photographiques lors des Expositions, Jocelyne Deschaux
Expositions et Conservation: de la Norme à la Réalité, Anne-Hélène Rigogne et Brigitte Leclerc
Displays: The Role of Preservation in Exhibitions at the Library of Congress, Diann van der Reyden

Session 3
Networking for Digital Preservation: Current Practice in 15 National Libraries, Ingeborg Verheul
Conservation et Accès aux Ressources Numériques à la Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Catherine Lupovici
Making (Preservation) Plans Together - Planning Strategies for Digital Preservation in the Netherlands and Europe, Hilde Van Wijngaarden
National Digital Information Infrasctruture and Preservation Program: What we have achieved so far and where we are headed?, Laura Campbell


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Conversations about Digital Preservation I (2009)

Title: Robert Horton, Minnesota State Archivist
Series: Conversations about Digital Preservation
Speakers: Robert Horton, Mike Ashenfelder
Institution: Library of Congress
Year: 2009
File Format: mp3
Running Time: 33:15 minutes
Site: http://www.loc.gov/... (listen it online here)
Download: http://www.loc.gov/... (mp3, 30.4 Mb)

Description:
Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress speaks with Minnesota State Archivist Robert Horton.

Conversations about Digital Preservation III (2009)

Title: Patricia Cruse, Director of the California Curation Center
Series: Conversations about Digital Preservation
Speakers: Patricia Cruse, Mike Ashenfelder
Institution: Library of Congress
Year: 2009
File Format: mp3
Running Time: 35:48 minutes
Site: http://www.loc.gov/... (listen it online here)
Download: http://www.loc.gov/... (mp3, 33.2 Mb)

Description:
Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress speaks with Patricia Cruse, Director of the California Curation Center.

Conversations about Digital Preservation II (2009)

Title: Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas
Series: Conversations about Digital Preservation
Speakers: Martin Halbert, Mike Ashenfelder
Institution: Library of Congress
Year: 2009
File Format: mp3
Running Time: 38:21 minutes
Site: http://www.loc.gov/... (listen it online here)
Download: http://www.loc.gov/... (mp3, 44.5 Mb)

Description:
Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress speaks with Martin Halbert, Director of the California Curation Center.

A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation (2010)

Title: A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation
Editors: K. Skinner and M. Schultz
Publisher: Educopia Institute
Year: 2010
Pages: 156
Site: http://www.metaarchive.org/...
Download: http://www.metaarchive.org/... (pdf, 2.93 Mb)


Description:

This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a still-emerging field of practice for the cultural memory arena. Replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite preservation of materials without degradation, but establishing effective organizational and technical processes to enable this form of digital preservation is daunting. Institutions need practical examples of how this task can be accomplished in manageable, low-cost ways.
This guide is written with a broad audience in mind that includes librarians, archivists, scholars, curators, technologists, lawyers, and administrators. Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital preservation, including how to establish or join a network.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Preserving Our Collections, Preserving Our Missions
Chapter 2. DDP Architecture
Chapter 3. Technical Considerations for PLNs
Chapter 4. Organizational Considerations
Chapter 5. Content Selection, Preparation, and Management
Chapter 6. Content Ingest, Monitoring, and Recovery for PLNs
Chapter 7. Cache and Network Administration for PLNs
Chapter 8. Copyright Practice in the DDP: Practice makes Perfect
Appendix A. Private LOCKSS Networks


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JPEG 2000 as a Preservation Format (2009)

Title: JPEG 2000 as a Preservation and Access Format for the Wellcome Trust Digital Library
Authors: Rob Buckley and Simon Tanner
Publisher: King’s Digital Consultancy Service
Year: 2009
Pages: 17
Download: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/... [PDF, 653 Kb]

Preservation of Web Resources (2008)

Title: PoWR. The Preservation of Web Resources Handbook
Year: 2008
Pages: 104
PDF: link (751 Kb)
For more information please check the handbook website here

Table of contents:

I: PRESERVATION OF YOUR WEB RESOURCES
Chapter 1: What do we mean by preservation?
Chapter 2: What's on your web?
Chapter 3: What risks and issues are peculiar to websites?
Chapter 4: What are your web archiving requirements?
Chapter 5: Selection
Chapter 6: Web Capture: what and how?
Chapter 7: Tools for the job
Chapter 8: Web Content Management Systems (CMS)
Chapter 9: What approaches and techniques can you use?
Chapter 10: Who wants to keep what, why, and for how long?
Chapter 11: How do we appraise the value of a web resource?
Chapter 12: What about Web 2.0?
Chapter 13: Scenarios and case studies

II: INFLUENCING THE INSTITUTION
Chapter 14: What are the drivers for web archiving?
Chapter 15: Some personal perspectives on web preservation
Chapter 16: Responsibility for preservation of web resources
Chapter 17: Institutional strategy
Chapter 18: What policies exist?
Chapter 19: How can you effect change?
Chapter 20: Information Lifecycle Management: Creation
Chapter 21: Can other people do it for you?

APPENDIX A: Legal Matters
APPENDIX B: Records management: A guide for webmasters