KeepIt Digital Preservation Bibliography
Connecting diverse digital repositories and preservation
This bibliography lists selected paper on the challenges of preserving open repository content in Arts and Humanities | Research Data | Science Data | Teaching and Learning | Theses Chronological by section. By the JISC KeepIt project.
See also the complementary [http://preserv.eprints.org/Preserv-bibliography.html Preserv bibliography] covering technical and other factors relevant to creating preservation services for digital repositories.
Arts and Humanities
Kultur Technical Report (pdf) March 2009
Kultur Metadata Report (pdf) March 2009
Kia Ng, Tran Vu Pham, Bee Ong, Alexander Mikroyannidis, David Giaretta
Preservation of Interactive Multimedia Performances
CASPAR project, 2008, in Int. J.
Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, Vol. 3, No. 3, 28 February 2009, 183-196
Victoria Sheppard, Andrew Gray, Dominic Persad
[http://kultur.eprints.org/docs/Interview%20analysis%20final%20Nov%2008.pdf Kultur
Project: User
Analysis: Interviews Report] (pdf 14pp)
November 2008
Victoria Sheppard
<a
href="http://kultur.eprints.org/docs/Survey%20report%20final%20Aug%2008.pdf">Kultur
Project: User Survey Report</a> (pdf 37pp)
5th
August 2008
Paolo
Buonora, Franco Liberati
<a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/buonora/07buonora.html">A Format
for Digital Preservation of Images: A Study on JPEG 2000 File
Robustness</a>
D-Lib Magazine,
Vol. 14 No. 7/8, July/August 2008
Stéphane; Pouyllau, Daniel Pouyllau, Shadia Kilouchi, Mona
Huerta,
Carlos Jenart, Caroline Abela, Lucie Secchiaroli,Olivier Bertoncello,
Marie-France Pouyllau, Nicole Tual, Caroline Lefranc
<a href="http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00285219/en/">Applications
composites et digital humanities: méthodes
et outils du CN2SV au service de la recherche</a>
Archive Ouverte en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication,
17 June 2008
Malcolm Heath, Michael Jubb, David Robey
<a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue54/heath-et-al/">E-Publication
and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities in the UK</a>
Ariadne, Issue 54,
30-January-2008
Christoph Becker, Andreas Rauber, et. al.
<a
href="http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/pub-inf_5204.pdf">Preserving
Interactive Multimedia Art: A Case Study in Preservation Planning</a>
(pdf 10pp)
PLANETS project, 17th January 2008, in International
Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2007), Hanoi, Vietnam,
December 10-13 2007
Jacqueline Cooke
<a href="http://eprints-gro.gold.ac.uk/140/">A visual arts perspective
on open access
institutional repositories</a>
Goldsmiths Research Online, 07 Feb 2008,
also in Digital Archive Fever: 23rd
CHArt (Computers and the History
of Art) Annual Conference, 8-9 November, 2007
Tim Vitale
<a
href="http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/emg/library/pdf/vitale/2007-07-vitale-digital_image_file_formats.pdf">Digital
Image File Formats – TIFF, JPEG, JPEG2000, RAW and
DNG</a> (pdf 45pp)
Version 20, July 2007
Andrew
Wilson, Richard
Wright, Malcolm
Polfreman, Sheila
Anderson, Simon Tanner, Emma Beer
<a
href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/moving%20pictures%20and%20sound%20archiving%20final%20version.doc">DIGITAL
MOVING IMAGES AND SOUND ARCHIVING STUDY</a> (.doc 120pp)
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), report for JISC, August 2006
Sheila Anderson, Mike Pringle, Mick Eadie, Tony Austin, Andrew Wilson,
Malcolm Polfreman
<a
href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/FinaldraftImagesArchivingStudy.pdf">Digital
Images Archiving Study</a> (pdf 163pp)
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), report for JISC, March 2006
Richard Rinehart
<a href="http://rhizome.org/artbase/report.htm">Preserving the Rhizome
ArtBase</a>
September 2002
Richard Rinehart
<a
href="http://switch.sjsu.edu/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?artc=233">The
Straw that Broke the Museum's Back? Collecting and Preserving Digital
Media Art Works for the Next Century</a>
Switch, issue 14, Jun 14 2000
Research data
<a href="http://smartech.gatech.edu/dspace/handle/1853/28509">Eliciting
Faculty Requirements for Research Data Repositories</a>
SMARTech repository at Georgia Tech, from OR09, 4-Jun-2009
Panayiota Polydoratou
<a
href="http://conferences.aepic.it/index.php/elpub/elpub2009/paper/view/142">Experimenting
with the Trial of a Research Data Audit: Some
Preliminary Findings about Data Types, Access to Data and Factors for
Long Term Preservation</a>
Steve Androulakis, Ashley M Buckle, Ian Atkinson, David Groenewegen,
Nick Nicholas, Andrew Treloar, Anthony Beitz
<a href="http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/99">ARCHER –
e-Research Tools for Research Data Management</a>
Curation, Vol 4, No 1 (2009), May 2009
Ann Green, et al.
<a href="http://www.disc-uk.org/docs/guide.pdf"
style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Policy-making for
Research Data in Repositories: A Guide</a>
DISC-UK
DataShare
project, May 2009
<a
href="http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/publications/managingsharing.pdf">MANAGING
AND SHARING DATA: a best practice guide for researchers</a> (pdf 28pp)
UK Data Archive, 2009
See also accompanying Web resources <a
href="http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/sharing/datastorage.asp">http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/sharing/datastorage.asp</a>
"This is an excellent resource!" DCC
blog, 23 July 2009
Rice, R.
<a
href="http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iq31/iqvol313rice.pdf"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153); background-color: transparent;">DISC-UK
Datashare Project: Building Exemplars for Institutional Data
Repositories in the UK</a>
IASSIST
Quarterly, 31 (3/4), 2009
Martinez-Uribe, L.
<a
href="http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iq31/iqvol313martinez.pdf"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153); background-color: transparent;">Digital
Repository Services for Managing Research Data: What Do Oxford
Researchers Need?</a>
IASSIST Quarterly, 31 (3/4),
2009
UK Research Data Service
<a
href="http://www.ukrds.ac.uk/HEFCE%20UKRDS%20Final%20Report%20V%201.1.doc">UKRDS
feasiblity study</a> (.doc 78pp)
Report
and
Recommendations to HEFCE, 19th
December 2008
see also The data imperative: Managing the UK’s research data for
future use
A summary of the report of the UK Research Data Service feasibility
study (pdf 16pp)
<a href="http://www.ukrds.ac.uk/UKRDS%20Report%20web.pdf">http://www.ukrds.ac.uk/UKRDS%20Report%20web.pdf</a>
Research Data Strategy Working Group
<a href="http://data-donnees.gc.ca/eng/about/achievements.html">Stewardship
of Research Data in
Canada: Gap Analysis</a>
Final report, Research Data Canada, 8 December
2008
Francine
Berman
Got Data? A Guide to Data Preservation in the
Information Age (pdf 8pp)
Communications of
the ACM, 51(12), December 2008, 49-56
available from <a
href="http://www.sdsc.edu/about/director/pubs/communications200812-DataDeluge.pdf">http://www.sdsc.edu/about/director/pubs/communications200812-DataDeluge.pdf</a>
For the author's 'Top 10' guidelines
for data stewardship from this article, see this short version (San
Diego Supercomputer Center press release, 10 December 2008) http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/supercomputer/12-08FBerman.asp
Raivo Ruusalepp
<a
href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/national_data_sharing_report_final.pdf">International
Approaches to
Enabling the Sharing
of Research Data</a> (pdf 108pp)
DCC/JISC, final report, 20 November 2008
Summary and main findings
<a
href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/data_sharing_report_main_findings_final.pdf">http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/data_sharing_report_main_findings_final.pdf</a>
Essentially this says there is lots still
to be done
Michael
Witt
<a href="http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/104/">Institutional
Repositories and Research Data Curation in
a Distributed Environment</a>
Purdue University e-Pubs, 2009, also
in Library Trends, Volume
57, Number 2, Fall 2008
Alma Swan, Sheridan Brown
<a
href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publication,%20s/documents/dataskillscareersfinalreport.aspx">Skills,
Role & Career Structure of Data Scientists & Curators:
Assessment of Current Practice & Future Needs</a>
JISC, 31 July 2008
Aaron Griffiths
<a href="http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/101">The
Publication of Research Data: Researcher Attitudes and Behaviour</a>
International Journal of Digital
Curation, Vol 4, No 1 (2009), July 2008
Comments on Swan and Brown (RIN, 2008)
Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown
<a href="http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-publication">To Share or not to
Share: Publication and Quality Assurance of Research Data Outputs</a>
Research Information Network (RIN)/JISC, June 2008
Andrew Treloar, Cathrine Harboe-Ree
<a
href="http://www.valaconf.org.au/vala2008/papers2008/111_Treloar_Final.pdf">Data
management and the curation continuum: how the Monash experience is
informing repository relationships</a>
VALA2008 14th Biennial Conference and
Exhibition, Melbourne, 5 - 7
February 2008
Luis Martinez
<a href="http://www.disc-uk.org/docs/DDI_and_IRs.pdf">The Data
Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Institutional Repositories</a> (pdf
22pp)
DISC DataShare project, February 2008
Anon
<a
href="http://www.rin.ac.uk/files/Research%20Data%20Principles%20and%20Guidelines%20full%20version%20-%20final.pdf">Stewardship
of digital research data: a framework of principles and guidelines:
Responsibilities of research institutions and funders, data managers,
learned societies and publishers</a> (pdf 16pp)
Research Information Network, January 2008
Kasja Weenink, Leo Waaijers, Karen van Godtsenhoven (eds)
<a href="http://dare.uva.nl/aup/nl/record/260224">A DRIVER's Guide to
European Repositories: Five studies of important Digital Repository
related issues and good Practices</a>
Amsterdam University Press/Surf / EU-Driver, 16 January 2008
includes these chapters:
- Data Curation, by René van Horik
Treloar, Andrew, David Groenewegen, Cathrine Harboe-Ree
<a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/treloar/09treloar.html">The
Data Curation Continuum</a><a
href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/treloar/09treloar.html">:
Managing Data Objects in Institutional Repositories</a>
D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 9/10,
September/October 2007
"I cannot express how blown away I am with
the strikingly intelligent pragmatism (the authors frm Monash
University) display" Caveat
Lector blog, 18 September 2007 http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2007/09/18/a-new-meaning-for-migration/
Anna Gold
<a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/gold/09gold-pt1.html">Cyberinfrastructure,
Data, and Libraries, Part 1: A Cyberinfrastructure Primer for
Librarians</a>
D-Lib Magazine, Volume 13 Number 9/10, September/October
2007<a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/gold/09gold-pt1.html">
</a>
Harry Gibbs
<a href="http://www.disc-uk.org/docs/state-of-the-art-review.pdf">DISC-UK
DataShare: State-of-the-Art Review</a> (pdf 28pp)
v1, 24 September, 2007
Liz Lyon
<a
href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_digital_repositories/project_dealing_with_data.aspx">Dealing
with Data: Roles, Rights, Responsibilities and Relationships</a>
JISC/UKOLN, Consultancy Report, v1.0, 19 June 2007
Anne Fitzgerald, Kylie Pappalardo
<a href="http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/node/33">Building the
Infrastructure for Data Access and Reuse in Collaborative Research: An
Analysis of the Legal Context</a>
Open Access to Knowledge, (OAK) Law Project, June 2007
Science data
Tasneem Irshad and Jenny Ure
<a
href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/case-studies/SCARP_Telecare.pdf">Clinical
Data from Home to Health Centre: the Telehealth Curation Lifecycle,
SCARP Case Study No. 3</a> (pdf 65pp)
DCC SCARP CASE STUDY REPORT, Version No. 1.1, 29 June 2009
Manjula Patel<a
href="http://wiki.ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/images/8/82/ECrystals-WP4-PP-090625.pdf">
Preservation Planning for Crystallography Data</a>
JISC eCrystals Federation Project, 25th June 2009
Esther Conway
<a
href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/case-studies/SCARP_B4832_Atmospheric.pdf">Curating
Atmospheric Data for long term use: Infrastructure and Preservation
Issues for the Atmospheric Sciences community, SCARP Case Study No. 2</a>
(pdf 52pp)
DCC SCARP INTERIM CASE STUDY REPORT, Version No. 6.21, 2 June 2009
Manjula Patel
<a
href="http://wiki.ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/images/e/e1/ECrystals-WP4-RI-090519.pdf">Representation
Information for Crystallography Data</a> (pdf 22pp)
JISC eCrystals Federation Project report, 19 May 2009
Lyubomir Penev, Terry Erwin, Jeremy Miller, Vishwas Chavan, Tom Moritz,
Charles Griswold
<a
href="http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/article/view/210">Publication
and dissemination of datasets in taxonomy: ZooKeys working example</a>
ZooKeys 11 (2009) doi: 10.3897/zookeys.11.210
Angus Whyte
<a
href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/case-studies/SCARP_B4821_NeuroCase_v1_1.pdf">Curating
Brain Images in a Psychiatric Research Group: Infrastructure and
Preservation Issues, SCARP Case Study No. 1</a> (pdf 59pp)
DCC SCARP INTERIM CASE STUDY REPORT, Version No. 1.1, 11 November 2008
Jeremy Frey
<a href="http://www.ijdc.net/ijdc/article/view/62">Curation of
Laboratory Experimental Data as
Part of the
Overall Data Lifecycle</a>
International
Journal of Digital Curation, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2008), announced
August 2008
Advances the idea that data curation
should begin in the laboratory
Peter Murray-Rust
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/194892">Open
Data In
Science</a>
Dspace@ Cambridge IR, January 5, 2008, in Serials Review
Patel, Manjula, Simon Coles
<a
href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/curation/eBank3-WP4-Report%20%28Revised%29.pdf">A
study of Curation and
Preservation Issues in the eCrystals Data Repository and Proposed
Federation</a>
JISC eBank-UK Project, Final Version (Revised), 7th
September 2007
An impressive report that takes a
proactive and rigorous, enquiring approach to identify the key issues.
What's important is that it engages the repository view, and real
scenarios, with the preservation view.
Peter Morgan
<a
href="http://www.lib.kth.se/iatul2007/assets/files/fulltext/Morgan_P_full.pdf">Facilitating
the Deposit of Experimental Chemistry Data in Institutional
Repositories: Project SPECTRa (Submission, Preservation, and Exposure
of Chemistry Teaching and Research Data)</a> (pdf 8pp)
IATUL 28th Annual Conference,
Stockholm, Sweden. June 11-14, 2007
Alan Tonge, Peter Morgan
<a href="http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/spectra/FinalReport.html">Project
SPECTRa, Submission, Preservation
and Exposure of Chemistry Teaching and Research Data</a>
JISC Final
Report, March 2007
Christine L. Borgman, Jillian C. Wallis, Noel Enyedy
<a href="http://repositories.cdlib.org/cens/wps/368/">Little Science
Confronts the Data Deluge: Habitat Ecology, Embedded
Sensor Networks, and Digital Libraries</a>
eScholarship Repository, University of California, November 25, 2006,
in International Journal on Digital
Libraries, 7 (1–2), 17-30
Teaching and Learning materials
Jennifer Meta Robinson
<a
href="http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/can-repository-make-sotl-usable">Can
a Repository Make the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Usable?</a>
Academic
Commons, March 18th, 2009
Tom Carey
<a
href="http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/open-educational-resources">How
Do Open Education Resources Acquire Their Value for Teaching and
Learning?</a>
Academic
Commons, March 18th, 2009
Angela Conyers and Pete Dalton
<a
href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/elopres.pdf">The
Preservation of e-Learning Materials - An Attitudinal Study</a> (pdf
46pp)
Evidence Base Research and Evaluation Services, Birmingham City
University, report for JISC, October 2008
Kevin Ashley, Richard Davis, Ed Pinsent
<a
href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/spelos_report.pdf">Significant
Properties of E-learning Objects</a> (pdf 65pp)
University of London Computer Centre, report for JISC, Draft Version:
0.91, March 2008
Peter Emmerson
<a href="http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/149/">Retention of Learning
Materials: A Survey of Institutional Policies and Practice</a>
JISC IE Repository, 18 Feb 2008
"It is also important to separate decisions on retention periods from
decisions on preservation methods or curation requirements. This survey
was intended to look at the
policies and practices relating to the retention of learning materials
rather
than the methods used to preserve or
look after them."
Franklin, T and Harmelen, M
<a href="http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/148/">Web 2.0 for Content for
Learning and Teaching in Higher Education</a>
JISC IE Repository, project report, 15 Feb 2008
Tom Carey and Gerard L. Hanley
<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262033712chap12.pdf">Extending
the Impact of Open Educational Resources through Alignment with
Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Institutional Strategy: Lessons
Learned from the MERLOT Community Experience</a>
in Opening Up Education, T.
Iiyoshi and V. Kumar (eds), MIT Press,
2008, pp. 181-196
Leah Halliday
<a
href="http://www.jorum.ac.uk/docs/pdf/070717_JorumExternalUserEvalFinalJC.pdf">Jorum
External User Evaluation Report</a> (pdf 54pp)
Jorum, July 2007
Jane Stevenson
<a
href="http://www.jorum.ac.uk/docs/pdf/Jorum_Preservation_Watch_Report.pdf">Jorum
Preservation Watch Report</a> (pdf 66pp)
Jorum project report, 24 July 2006
"focussing on some key issues to be addressed in connection with a
preservation process for Jorum."
Jane Stevenson
<a
href="http://www.jorum.ac.uk/docs/pdf/Digital_Preservation_Report.pdf">Preservation
Watch Report</a> (pdf 73pp)
JORUM project, report for JISC, V1.0, July 2005
"overview of current activities, standards and recommendations relating
to digital preservation, and provides a starting point for further work
on a long term preservation strategy for learning objects held within
the Jorum repository."
Lorna M. Campbell
<a
href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/repos_issues_cetis_feb05.pdf">Repository
Issues …. from a Teaching and Learning perspective</a>
in Heery, R. and Anderson, S., Digital Repositories Review, Annex
3, JISC, February 2005
Ed Barker, Hamish James, Gareth Knight, Colin Milligan, Malcolm
Polfreman, Roger Rist
<a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/LTR_study_v1-4.doc">Long-Term
Retention and
Reuse of E-Learning Objects and Materials</a> (.doc 98pp)
JISC report, Version 1.4, November 11th, 2004
Neil McLean, Clifford Lynch
<a href="http://www.imsglobal.org/DLims_white_paper_publicdraft_1.pdf">Interoperability
between Information and Learning Environments – Bridging the Gaps</a>
IMS Global Learning Consortium and the Coalition for Networked
Information, Joint White Paper, draft version, June 28, 2003
Ross Harvey
<a
href="http://www.usq.edu.au/electpub/e-jist/docs/Vol5_No2/Harvey%20-%20Final.pdf">NOW
YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T: MAINTAINING DIGITAL LEARNING OBJECTS FOR THE
FUTURE</a> (pdf 9pp)
usq.au, undated (apparently 2002)
Theses
Martin Halbert, Katherine Skinner and Gail McMillan
<a
href="http://conferences.library.pitt.edu/ocs/viewabstract.php?id=733&cf=7">Getting
ETDs off the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for
Growing ETD Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks</a>
ETD 2009 12th International Symposium on
Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Pittsburgh, June 10-13, 2009
Peter Sefton
<a
href="http://epc.ub.uu.se/ETD2007/files/papers/paper-32.pdf">An
integrated approach to
preparing, publishing, presenting and preserving theses</a> (pdf 24pp)
ETD 2007 added
values to e-theses: 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses
and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden, 13-16 June 2007
Describes the Integrated Content
Environment for research and scholarship (ICE-RS).
Kamini Santhanagopalan, Edward A. Fox and Gail McMillan
<a
href="http://www6.bibl.ulaval.ca:8080/etd2006/pages/papers/SP10_%20Kamini_Santhanagopalan.pdf">A
Prototype for Preservation and Harvesting of International ETDs using
LOCKSS and OAI-PMH</a> (pdf 36pp)
9th
International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations,
Quebec City, June 7 - 10, 2006
Priscilla
Caplan and Chuck Thomas
<a
href="http://www6.bibl.ulaval.ca:8080/etd2006/pages/papers/SP10_Charles_Thomas.pdf">DAITSS:
Another Preservation Option for Electronic Theses & Dissertations</a>
(pdf 4pp)
9th International
Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations,
Quebec City, June 7 - 10, 2006
Thomas
Wollschlaeger
<a
href="http://www6.bibl.ulaval.ca:8080/etd2006/pages/papers/SP10_Thomas_Wollschlaeger.pdf">ETD's
as pilot materials for long-term preservation efforts in kopal</a> (pdf
8pp)
9th International Symposium on
Electronic Theses and Dissertations,
Quebec City, June 7 - 10, 2006
