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D-Lib May 2006 Justin Littman	A Technical Approach and Distributed Model for Validation of Digital Objects This article describes the current technical approach for digital object validation used by the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the digitization of historical newspapers.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2012 Vermaaten et al.	Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment Digital preservation strategies, as well as the processes and tools that implement those strategies, are designed to secure the long-term future of digital materials. A successful digital preservation strategy must account for and mitigate the impact of various threats.
D-Lib December 2008 Priscilla Caplan	Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information Packages Responsibility for digital preservation must be distributed among many heterogeneous, geographically dispersed repositories.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2008 Dappert & Enders	Using METS, PREMIS and MODS for Archiving eJournals As institutions turn towards developing archival digital repositories, many decisions on the use of metadata have to be made.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2010 Cramer & Kott	Designing and Implementing Second Generation Digital Preservation Services: A Scalable Model for the Stanford Digital Repository This paper examines the lessons-learned through over five years of development and operational experience.
D-Lib December 2005 DiLauro et al.	The Archive Ingest and Handling Test: The Johns Hopkins University Report The Digital Knowledge Center used the AIHT to explore and evaluate content repositories as platforms for digital preservation.
D-Lib February 2009 Justin Littman	A Set of Transfer-Related Services As the Library of Congress (LC) expands its digital initiatives, one of the most pressing challenges is scaling digital content "transfer processes."
D-Lib December 2007 Andrew Waugh	The Design and Implementation of an Ingest Function to a Digital Archive During the design and implementation of public record digital archive, considerable attention was paid to the ingest function that accessions digital objects into the archive. In this article the design of the ingest function, and the lessons learned about ingest are described.
D-Lib June 2005 Jantz & Giarlo	Digital Preservation: Architecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories To ensure that current digital archives can be trusted to be available in the future, methods, practices, and standards need to be defined.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2008 Pearce et al.	The Australian METS Profile - A Journey about Metadata Steps toward a generic Australian METS profile that can be used across multiple domains and usage scenarios.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2010 Sally Vermaaten	A Checklist and a Case for Documenting PREMIS-METS Decisions in a METS Profile Despite the benefits of shared practices, there has been little convergence on best practices for a widely used metadata strategy, PREMIS in METS.
D-Lib May/Jun 2007	Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional Repositories: Towards Distributed Services Distributed preservation services require further investigation about the interaction of service providers and client repositories. While there may be some emerging consensus on the range of services that may be needed, the primary requirement is for market testing conditions.
D-Lib November 2005 Rosenthal et al.	Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems: A Bottom-Up Approach Work is under way to elaborate the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model with sufficient detail to allow systems to inter-operate on the basis of common specifications for ingesting and disseminating information.
D-Lib August 2006 Robert Tansley	Building a Distributed, Standards-based Repository Federation: The China Digital Museum Project This article presents the architecture developed for the China Digital Museum Project, a collaborative project involving the Chinese Ministry of Education, Hewlett-Packard Company and several Chinese universities, with Beihang University as the main technical partner.
D-Lib April 2003 Staples et al.	The Fedora Project An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System
D-Lib December 2005 Anderson et al.	The AIHT at Stanford University: Automated Preservation Assessment of Heterogeneous Digital Collections Development and initial implementation of a methodology for automated preservation-risk assessment, results applying the methodology to the AIHT collection, and some general conclusions from our results and from the project as a whole.
D-Lib August 2008 Rebecca S. Guenther	Battle of the Buzzwords: Flexibility vs. Interoperability When Implementing PREMIS in METS The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata 1 specifies the information that a repository needs to maintain for the long-term preservation of digital objects.
D-Lib September 2002 Green et al.	Coming to TERM: Designing the Texas Email Repository Model This article explores access to and long-term preservation of digital records in state government settings using the Open Archival Information System Reference Model to design a repository for managing email records in the state of Texas.
D-Lib April 2003 Searle & Thompson	Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2014 Neatrour et al.	The SIMP Tool: Facilitating Digital Library, Metadata, and Preservation Workflow at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library This article presents a case study of the Submission Information Metadata Packaging tool developed at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library.
D-Lib May/Jun 2015 Goethals et al.	Facing the Challenge of Web Archives Preservation Collaboratively: The Role and Work of the IIPC Preservation Working Group This article documents goals and activities of the IIPC Preservation Working Group, such as a survey about the current state of preservation in member web archives and a number of collaborative projects.
Information Today March 26, 2007 Barbara Quint	Chronicling America Service Offers Comprehensive Directory of U.S. Newspapers The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC) have inaugurated a new online service for America's historic newspapers called Chronicling America.
D-Lib December 2004 Godby, Ypung & Childress	A Repository of Metadata Crosswalks In promoting standards for interoperability, one outcome is a repository that collects publicly accessible metadata into a repository that can be harvested using standard XML protocols and provides tools for creating sample services, such as customizable views of the data.
D-Lib August 2006 Nancy Hoebelheinrich	METS Implementation Meeting: JCDL 2006 Workshop Report The first METS Implementation Meeting was held on June 15, 2006, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as a post-meeting workshop in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006.
D-Lib November 2003 Ronald Jantz	Public Opinion Polls and Digital Preservation: An Application of the Fedora Digital Object Repository System This article provides an overview of the Eagleton Poll Archive, the website and, more specifically, the underlying preservation framework
Information Today January 14, 2010	Ex Libris Announces the Beta Release of Rosetta Version 2.0 The system enables institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to documents for perpetuity-institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, websites, and other digitally born and digitized materials.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2011 Shaon & Woolf	Long-term Preservation for Spatial Data Infrastructures: a Metadata Framework and Geo-portal Implementation The work presented in this article investigates the requirements for ensuring sustained access to environmental data from the perspective of a preservation-aware Spatial Data Infrastructure.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Lavoie & Dempsey	Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation Fulfilling the promise of integrated and readily accesible material requires the cultivation of stakeholder communities that meaningfully engage with digital information environments.
D-Lib October 2005 Leslie Johnston	Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora Repository Internal design review of the interface of the Digital Library Repository and it's usability in classrooms and by faculty and staff.
D-Lib December 2005 Clay Shirky	AIHT: Conceptual Issues from Practical Tests The Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) was created with the idea that by giving a moderately complex digital archive to a variety of participants, we would be able to better understand which aspects of digital preservation were institution-specific, and which aspects were more general.
Information Today March 20, 2008	Chronicling America Site Adds Content and Features More than 79,000 newly digitized newspaper pages, along with several new site features, have recently been added to the Chronicling America website.
D-Lib June 2008 Brian F. Lavoie	PREMIS With a Fresh Coat of Paint: Highlights from the Revision of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata was the first comprehensive specification for preservation metadata produced from an international, cross-domain consensus-building process.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2013 Webb et al.	'Oh, you wanted us to preserve that?!' Statements of Preservation Intent for the National Library of Australia's Digital Collections Clarifying preservation intentions is likely to be a good starting point for preservation planning for diverse digital collections.
D-Lib May/Jun 2011 Li & Banach	Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries Digital preservation is a significant problem facing libraries. Libraries are struggling with how to preserve the scholarly and cultural record now that this information is increasingly being produced in digital formats.
D-Lib February 2007 H.M. Gladney	Digital Preservation in a National Context: Questions and Views of an Outsider Today's National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program is focused on cultural content similar to traditional research library holdings, with little attention to preserving practical information critical to most social infrastructure and of interest to most citizens.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 Lewis et al.	SWORD: Facilitating Deposit Scenarios Digital Repositories have the ability to be integrated into the life blood of research. They can collect, manage, preserve, and make available research outputs.
D-Lib June 2006 Abby Smith	Distributed Preservation in a National Context: NDIIPP at Mid-point A summary of the progress of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program - five and a half years after its inception.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 Rimkus et al.	Digital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis While concerted efforts have been made in the library community to encourage common standards, digital preservation policies regularly vary from one digital library service to another.
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Joan E. Beaudoin	Context and Its Role in the Digital Preservation of Cultural Objects In discussions surrounding digital preservation, context -- those properties of an object related to its creation and preservation that make the object's origins, composition, and purpose clear -- has been identified as a critical aspect of preservation metadata.
D-Lib May 2002 William G. LeFurgy	Levels of Service for Digital Repositories This article outlines conditions that govern the persistence of digital materials and suggests a model for future levels of service for digital repositories...
D-Lib October 2009 Steinhart et al.	Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR) We describe our experience applying the Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification Criteria and Checklist as a framework for specifying system, policy, and documentation requirements to ensure that DataStaR is an effective partner in the entire chain of preservation activities.
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Kulovits et al.	From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation planning at the Bavarian State Library using a collection of digitized 16th century printings.
D-Lib May/Jun 2013 Altman et al.	NDSA Storage Report: Reflections on National Digital Stewardship Alliance Member Approaches to Preservation Storage Technologies To better understand ongoing storage practices of organizations committed to digital preservation, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance conducted a survey of member organizations. This article reports on the findings of the survey.
D-Lib September 2004 Roxanne Missingham	Reengineering a National Resource Discovery Service: MODS Down Under The reengineering of Kinetica is critical in supporting the Library's strategic goal of breaking down barriers to access to library collections and online resources.
D-Lib December 2008 Pedersen, Christiansen & Razum	The Use of Digital Object Repository Systems in Digital Libraries (DORSDL2): ECDL 2008 Workshop Report The workshop covered a variety of practical digital library development issues and how their resolution can (or cannot) be carried out in the context of the digital object repository at hand.
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 Nakasone & Sheffield	Descriptive Metadata for Field Books: Methods and Practices of the Field Book Project We explain the descriptive metadata used for field books, which share characteristics of museum, archives, and library objects, and explain why schemas were chosen, and how they are used.
D-Lib April 2004 Brian F. Lavoie	Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity This article discusses the objectives, current status, and future activities of PREMIS, an expert working group focused on the topic of implementing preservation metadata within digital archiving systems.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2013 Carol Minton Morris	2012 CNI Fall Membership Meeting: Scholarship for the Future The Coalition for Networked Information Fall Member Meeting included presentations that explored how to manage, maintain, share, identify, preserve, make use of and build global communities around all types of digital content with a focus on research data.
Information Today March 5, 2012 Victoria McCargar	Viewshare: Up Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures Back in November 2011, the Library of Congress blogged about a new online service called Viewshare, a web domain where cultural heritage institutions can show off their digital treasures free of charge.
D-Lib September 2003 Pinfield & James	The Digital Preservation of e-Prints This article addresses the question of whether or not e-prints -- electronic versions of research papers -- should be preserved and then goes on to make some comments about the practical issues that arise from the suggested answer.