Publishing technologies and digital preservation
Birkbeck Centre for Technology and Publishing. 22nd March 2018.
Professor Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, University of London
Digital Preservation
- Basic principle: Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe
- Same principle as print preservation
- Print doesn't preserve itself; we built libraries for this
- LOCKSS, CLOCKSS and Portico are the main preservation systems in operation today
LOCKSS
- Open-source, library-led digital preservation system
- Libraries run LOCKSS boxes (computers/servers) at their institutions, which keep copies of their local collection.
- Each library checks its own content and compares this to the same content at other libraries.
- If damage is detected, the network will repair the damaged copy.
- Dynamically migrates content to newer formats.
- On a trigger event, the content is released to patrons at the participating library.
CLOCKSS
- Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe
- A private LOCKSS network that can be joined by publishers.
- Publishers sign up with their titles and pay a membership fee.
- On a trigger event, the content is released to everyone.
Portico
- Participating libraries deposit content
- Third party service
- Independently certified by the Center for Research Libraries
What is the major threat in the digital world?
- People assume that it's the zombie-apocalyse major shutdown of electricity grids
- It isn't
- It's the economic cost of preservation and the inability to preserve everything (i.e. we must preselect)
The End
Thank you!
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