Digital Preservation
Best Practice for Museums
Bibliography
Best Practice Guides
Museum Context
Literature Surveys
Best Practice Guides
Besser, Howard. "Digital Longevity." pp 164-176 in Handbook for Digital
Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access (edited by
Maxine K. Sitts). Andover: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000.
182 pp. URL: http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Cedars Project. Cedars Guide to Digital Collection Management.
Online: The Cedars Project, 2002, pp. 23. URL:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/guideto/collmanagement/
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Cedars Project. Cedars Guide to Digital Preservation Strategies.
Online: The Cedars Project, 2002, pp. 18. URL:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/guideto/dpstrategies/
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Cedars Project. Cedars Guide to Intellectual Property Rights.
Online: The Cedars Project, 2002, pp. 19. URL:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/guideto/ipr/
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Cedars Project. Cedars Guide to Preservation Metadata. Online:
The Cedars Project, 2002, pp. 18. URL:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/guideto/metadata/
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Cedars Project. Cedars Guide to The Distributed Digital Archiving
Prototype. Online: The Cedars Project, 2002, pp. 26. URL:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/guideto/cdap/
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Gatenby, Pam. "Digital Archiving - Developing Policy And Best Practice
Guidelines At The National Library Of Australia" in Digital Archiving:
Bringing Issues and Standards Together. Online: ICSTI Press, 2000.
URL: http://www.icsti.org/2000workshop/gatenby.html
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Grout, Catherine, Phill Purdy and Janine Rymer. Creating Digital
Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice. Online:
Visual Arts Data Service, 2000. URL:
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide/contents.html
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Hodges, Gail M. "Best Practices for Digital Archiving." D-Lib
Magazine 6,1 (2000). URL:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01hodge.html
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials. Online: The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, October 2002. URL: http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/index.html.
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Institute of Museum and Library Services. A Framework of Guidance for
Building Good Digital Collections. Online: Institue of Museum and
Library Services, November 2001. URL: http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Jones, Maggie and Neil Beagrie. Preservation Management of Digital
Materials: A Handbook. Online: Digital Preservation Coalition, 2002.
URL: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/handbook/
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Kenney, Anne R. "Projects to Programs: Developing a Digital Preservation
Policy." in Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries
and Archives (edited by A. Kenney and O. Rieger). Mountain View:
Research Libraries Group, 2000, pp 189.
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html.
National Library of Canada Electronic Collections Coordinating Group.
Networked Electronic Publications Policy and Guidelines. Online:
National Library of Canada, 1998. URL:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/9/8/index-e.html
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
NINCH Working Group on Best Practices. The NINCH Guide to Good Practice
in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials.
Online: The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, October 2002.
URL: http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/index.html
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
RLG/OCLC Working Group on Digital Archive Attributes. Trusted Digital
Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities. Mountain View: Research
Libraries Group, 2002. 62 pp. URL:
http://www.rlg.org/longterm/repositories.pdf
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Museum Context
Canadian Heritage Information Network. Information Technology in
Canadian Museums: A Survey by the Canadian Heritage Information Network.
Online: Canadian Heritage Information Network, 2001. URL:
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Reference_Library/Information_
Technology/index.html
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Hedstrom, Margaret and Sheon Montgomery. Digital Preservation Needs
and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions. Online: Research
Libraries Group, 1998. URL:
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html
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Institute of Museum and Library Services. Status of Technology and
Digitization In the Nation's Museums and Libraries 2002 Report.
Online: Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2002. URL:
http://www.imls.gov/publications/TechDig02/index02.htm
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Literature Surveys
Carroll, B. C. and G. Hodge. Digital Electronic Archiving : the
State of the Art and the State of the Practice. Online: International
Council for Scientific and Technical Information: Information Policy
Committee, 1999. URL: http://www.icsti.org/Dig_Archiving_Report_1999.pdf
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Conway, Paul. Preservation in the Digital World. Online:
Council on Libraries and Information Resources, 1996. URL:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub62.html
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Council of Library and Information Resources. The State of Digital
Preservation: An International Perspective. Online: Council on
Libraries and Information Resources, 2002: URL:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub107abst.html
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Fresko, M. "Digital Preservation: State of the Art November 1999
Update" in Consolidating the European Library Space Conference
Proceedings. Online: DG Information Society, 1999. URL: http://cordis.europa.eu/libraries/events/fp4ce/speech/fresko.html#freskop
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Gould, Sara and Marie-Therese Varlamoff. The Preservation of Digitised
Collections: An Overview of Recent Progress and Persistent Challenges
Worldwide. Online: UNESCO, 2000. URL:
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/points_of_views/preservation_1.shtml
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.
Lee, Kyong-Ho, Oliver Slattery, Richard Lu, Victor McCrary and Xiao
Tang. "The State of the Art and Practice in Digital Preservation."
Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, 107,1 (2002), pp. 93-106.
http://nvl.nist.gov/pub/nistpubs/jres/107/1/j71lee.pdf
Waters, Donald and John Garrett. Preserving Digital Information:
Final Report and Recommendations. Online: Commission on Preservation
and Access and The Research Libraries Group, 1996. URL:
http://www.rlg.org/ArchTF/
Last viewed: June 12, 2006.