UBC Library's Digital Preservation Strategy Bronwen Sprout, Digital Initiatives Coordinator Sarah Romkey, Rare Books and Special Collections Archivist with input from Artefactual Systems UBC Library April 28, 2014 overview • What is digital preservation? • Our approach to digital preservation • Working with Artefactual • Archivematica • Born digital archives • Archivematica and integration with other systems (AtoM, CONTENTdm, cIRcle) what is digital preservation? • active management of digital information over time to ensure its accessibility • consists of policies, strategies, and actions Digital preservation requirements accessibility discover retrieve usability render contextualize re-use authenticity identify trust • Develop a comprehensive preservation system for UBC Library • Work with Artefactual • Use Archivematica as a tool to apply OAIS-compliant preservation processes AND integrate it with existing systems used to manage digital objects • Build internal technical and staff capacity our approach working with artefactual • 2011 - present: – gap analysis – identification of pilot projects – early testing of archivematica – legacy media from RBSC – procedures for born-digital material – website archiving – more archivematica testing – CONTENTdm and DSpace integration development and testing archivematica • “a free and open source digital preservation system that is designed to maintain standards-based, long term access to collections of digital objects” http://www.archivematica.org • micro-services provide integrated suite of software tools in compliance with ISO-OAIS model archivematica what is “born digital?” •Quick survey: •Do you take digital photographs? •Do you print some of your digital photographs? •Do you print ALL of your digital photographs? RBSC/UA born-digital acquisition workflow legacy media a new acquisition • "First" born-digital acquisition • Donor questionnaire • Physical transfer of files • Hardware and software • Workflow documentation • Donor gift agreement • First AIPs stored April 2013; still in processing Level of Preservation Use case Minimum tools Level 1 Imaging files from working hard drives, directly from creator Write blocker, file synchronization software (e.g. Grsync) Level 2 Imaging/copying files from external media File synchronization software (e.g. Grsync), write blocker if possible Level 3 Preserving external media only Hardware necessary to open media (floppy drive, optical drive, etc) preservation levels AtoM • Master files and PDFs uploaded to Archivematica for display in AtoM CONTENTdm • Master files uploaded to Archivematica • Archivematica produces access versions and pushes to CONTENTdm cIRcle (DSpace) • Archivematica receives submissions from DSpace • Also have Archivematica to DSpace workflow BIRS math videos Next steps and future work • TRAC (Trusted Repository Audit Checklist) self-audit • Policy development • Research data • Website archiving
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Title | UBC Library's digital preservation strategy |
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Sprout, Bronwen Romkey, Sarah |
Date Issued | 2014-04-28 |
Description | Preservation Week at UBC Library, April 28 - May 2. Preservation Week aims to unite our communities through events and exhibits that highlight what we can do — individually and together — to preserve our personal and shared collections. |
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Language | eng |
Date Available | 2014-06-18 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0077875 |
URI | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/47021 |
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Library, UBC |
Peer Review Status | Unreviewed |
Scholarly Level | Faculty |
Rights URI | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ |
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