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    • Active Preservation 

      Sharpe, Robert; Brown, Adrian (2009)
      In order to perform long-term digital preservation it is necessary to be (i) understand the technology of the material being stored, (ii) be able to decide whether this technology is obsolete (and, if so, what to do about ...
    • Adding Quality-Awareness to Evaluate Migration Web-Services and Remote Emulation for Digital Preservation 

      Becker, Christoph; Kulovits, Hannes; Kraxner, Michael; Gottardi, Riccardo; Rauber, Andreas; Welte, Randolph (2009)
      Digital libraries are increasingly relying on distributed services to support increasingly complex tasks such as retrieval or preservation. While there is a growing body of services for migrating digital objects into safer ...
    • Dependency management for digital preservation using semantic web technologies 

      Μαρκετάκης, Γιάννης; Marketakis, Yannis (2009)
      The preservation of digital objects is a topic of prominent importance for archives and digital libraries. In this article, we focus on the problem of preserving the intelligibility of digital objects.We formalize the ...
    • Digital Preservation and Access of Audio Heritage: a Case Study for Phonographic Discs 

      Canazza, Sergio; Orio, Nicola (2009)
      We investigate differences among the approaches to the digitization of phonographic discs, using two novel methods developed by the authors: a system for synthesizing audio signals from still images of phonographic discs and ...
    • Digital Preservation: the Rare and Unique's Longevity 

      Αράχωβα, Τόνια; Μαμμά, Ελένη; Arahova, Antonia; Mamma, Eleni (2013-06-12)
      During the epoch of latest rapid changes in the information environment, the outstanding existence of new technologies makes its appearance and acts with the main aim to support, exploit and distribute information services’ ...
    • Documenting a Virtual World - A Case Study in Preserving Scenes from Second Life 

      Antonescu, Mircea-Dan; Guttenbrunner, Mark; Rauber, Andreas (2009)
      In addition to the World Wide Web, other platforms have emerged on the Internet that are being used by communities to provide and exchange information. One family of such platforms are virtual worlds, which - like the Web ...
    • First Results on Detecting Term Evolutions 

      Tahmasebi, Nina; Ramesh, Sukriti; Risse, Thomas (2009)
      The archival of content like publications or web pages is just the first step toward “full” content preservation. It also has to be guaranteed that content can be found and interpreted in the long run. The correspondence ...
    • Hoppla - Digital Preservation Support for Small Institutions 

      Strodl, Stephan; Motlik, Florian; Rauber, Andreas (2009)
      Digital information is of crucial value to a range of institutions, from memory institutions of all sizes, via industry and SME down to private home computers containing office documents, valuable memories, and family ...
    • Just One Bit in a Million: on the Effects of Data Corruption in Files 

      Heydegger, Volker (2009)
      So far little attention has been paid to file format robustness, i.e., a file formats capability for keeping its information as safe as possible in spite of data corruption. The paper on hand reports on the first comprehensive ...
    • Migrating Content in WARC Files 

      Strodl, Stephan; Beran, Peter Paul; Rauber, Andreas (2009)
      Heritage institutions all over the world started on harvesting and preserving resources of the World Wide Web for future generations as part of our culture heritage. This task tends to be a non-trivial one because of two ...
    • Organisation, Conservation et Digitalisation des Archives de CYBC 

      Ζέρβας, Μάριος; Zervas, Marios (2004)
      University of Cyprus Library has submitted a proposal for “The Organisation, Conservation and Digitisation of the Radio and TV Archives of the State Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation”.
    • Pandora ένα αρχείο διατήρησης ψηφιακών τεκμηρίων 

      Κόκκινος, Διονύσης; Γαβρίλη, Μαρία; Gavrili, Maria; Kokkinos, Dionysis (Ένωση Ελλήνων Βιβλιοθηκαρίων, 2005)
    • The Planets Interoperability Framework. An Infrastructure for Digital Preservation Actions 

      King, Ross; Schmidt, Rainer; Jackson, Andrew N.; Wilson, Carl; Steeg, Fabian (2009)
      We report on the implementation of a software infrastructure for preservation actions, carried out in the context of the European Integrated Project Planets – the Planets Interoperability Framework (IF). The design of the ...
    • Preservation and Policies in Hellenic Libraries and Archives: a Nationwide Research 

      Γκίννη, Ζωίτσα; Gkinni, Zoitsa (2015)
      The growing interest in the preservation of archival and library collections in Greece and the lack of documentation in this field led to a nationwide survey to explore the preservation status in Hellenic (Greek) cultural ...
    • Preservation in the digital age 

      Birk, Nancy (Βιβλιοθήκη Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας, 1998)
      In this paper, I will examine Preservation in the Digital Age from two dif­ferent viewpoints, two sides of a coin if you will. The first side will be an examination of the expanded opportunities offered to the field of ...
    • Preserving today for tomorrow: a case study of an archive of Interactive Music Installations 

      Bressan, Federica; Canazza, Sergio; Roda, Antonio; Orio, Nicola (2009)
      This work presents the problems addressed and the first results obtained by a project aimed at the preservation of Interactive Music Installations (IMI). Preservation requires that besides all the necessary components for ...
    • Protecting digital archives at the Greek orthodox archdiocese of America 

      Νικολάκης, Τ.; Goldstein, H.; Heileman, G.L.; Heileman, M.D.; Pizano, C.E.; Prumo, B.; Webb, M.; Nicolakis, Theo (2003)
      In recent years, the folksonomies were created and maintained in libraries and other information organizations alongside the traditional subject indexing systems. Folksonomies, consisting of tags, often express the "wisdom ...
    • Securing the iRODS Metadata Catalog for Digital Preservation 

      Antunes, Gonçalo; Barateiro, José (2009)
      Digital preservation is the ability to retrieve, access, and use digital objects through time, while ensuring the authenticity and integrity properties of these objects. Data grids represent a model of storage systems ...
    • Significance Is in the Eye of the Stakeholder 

      Dappert, Angela; Farquhar, Adam (2009)
      Custodians of digital content take action when the material that they are responsible for is threatened by, for example, obsolescence or deterioration. At first glance, ideal preservation actions retain every aspect of the ...
    • Using digital corpora for preserving and processing cultural heritage texts: a case study 

      Γαλιώτου, Ελένη; Galiotou, Eleni (2014)
      The purpose of this paper is to describe the creation and exploitation of a historical corpus in an attempt to contribute to the preservation and availability of cultural heritage documents. Design/methodology/approach – ...