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| October 2009 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading |
| July 2009 | A Handbook - Endorsements and Reviews Holding The Past In Our Digital Future by Christopher Phipps, The Times Higher, 11th October 2002 link broken - updated |
| June 2009 | Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading Institutional Strategies: Costs and Business Modelling Marley, Steve., Moore, Mike., Clark, Bruce (2003) Building a Cost-Effective Remote data Storage Capabilities for NASA´s EOSDIS link broken - updated |
| December 2008 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading NOF-digitise Technical Standards and Guidelines no longer available - link disabled
Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading NOF-digitise Technical Standards and Guidelines no longer available - link disabled
Introduction: Acronyms and Initials |
| November 2008 | Text version removed and PDFs of Handbook and sections added |
| October 2008 | Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/criteria.html no longer valid - disabled |
| September 2008 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading Book Industry Communication,The Rights Decision Tree, Sally Morris and the Rights Metadata Working Party. http://www.bic.org.uk/rightree.rtf no longer available - disabled |
| May 2008 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading A Handbook: Endorsements and Reviews of the Handbook Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading |
| April 2008 |
Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading Introduction Digital Preservation - References |
| March 2008 | The following URLs were disabled and a new URL for information added http://ec.europa.eu/archives/ISPO/dlm/:
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| November 2007 |
Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading |
| October 2007 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading |
| September 2007 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading Digital Preservation: References |
| August 2007 | Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading Link to " Chapman, S. (2003) Counting the Costs of Digital Preservation: Is Repository Storage Affordable? Journal of Digital Information 4, (2), 208-214" disabled as no longer available online. |
| May 2007 | Organisation Activities: References Links to "E-government: a strategic framework for public services in the Information Age." and "British Standards Institute. (1999). Information Security Management (BS7799-2: 1999)" disabled as obsolete. |
| March 2007 |
Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading Introduction: Acronyms and Initials |
| February 2007 |
Introduction: Acronyms and Initials New URL for PADS |
| December 2006 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading Link to "Essex Data Archive, Guide to Depositing Data. A guide and forms for depositors with the Essex Data Archive.This includes a pro forma licence agreement." updated. Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading Link to "National Archive of New Zealand. (1998). Appraisal Standard, Standard for the Appraisal of Public Records and Archives.Wellington, 1998." PDF updated. |
| November 2006 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading Link to "http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/recordsmanagement/advice/ Link to "http://www.erpanet.org/www/products/tools/ERPANETCostingTool.pdf " disabled and new link added. Institutional Strategies: costs and business modelling Link to "http://www.erpanet.org/www/products/tools/ERPANETCostingTool.pdf" disabled and new link added. |
| October 2006 |
Digital Preservation: References Hedstrom, M. and Montgomery, S. (1998). Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions. Link updates Location of Catriona II Project report updated. |
| August 2006 |
Introduction: Acronyms and Initials PRO Public Record Office - information added and link updated |
| August 2006 |
Organisation Activities: References Three links to http://www.pro.gov.uk/recordsmanagement/eros/guidelines disabled - the EROS project has now ended. Link to a page with links to relevant guidance added. Link to "A Model Action Plan for Developing Records Management Compliant with the Lord Chancellor's Code of Practice under section 46 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000" updated. |
| August 2006 |
Media and Formats: Exemplars and Further Reading Links for " Dale, R. (1999). File compression Strategies Discussion at ALA. RLG DigiNews February 15 1999." and "Frey, F. (2000). File Formats for Digital Masters." updated. |
| August 2006 |
Link for "Research Libraries Group" updated.
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| August 2006 |
Link to "British Library Digital Preservation Policy, November 2002" updated. |
| July 2006 |
Organisational Activities: References Links for "Arms, C. (2000).'Keeping Memory Alive: Practices for Preserving Digital Content at the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.' RLG DigiNews.Volume 4 (3). June 15 2000. p. 5." and "'Risk Management of Digital Information: a File Format Investigation'. RLG DigiNews 4 (3). 15 June 2000. p.14" updated. |
| March 2006 |
A new section 3.7 Costs and Business Modelling added to Institutional Strategies New sub-section Costs and Business Modelling added to Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading Sub-section How much does it cost? updated in Digital Preservation: Strategic Overview Sub-section Costs updated in Digital Preservation: Preservation Issues: Organisational Issues Costs of maintaining Digital Archives removed from Organisational Activities: Exemplars and further reading: Digitisation Costs (renamed from Costs to Digitisation Costs) as this subject now covered by updates and new section as detailed above. |
| March 2006 |
The Decision Tree has been updated and replaces the old Figure 4. The new version can be found at Decision Tree The following pages have had links to the Decision Tree added or updated: Figure 4 in the list of figures now links to the PDF of the Decision Tree. |
| January 2006 | Introduction Link to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DDI/users/dtd/index.html (DDI Data Documentation Initiative) disabled and new link added. |
| January 2006 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading Link to "http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/vdelec.html" (National Library of Australia.Voluntary Deposit Scheme for Physical Format Electronic Publications.) disabled and new link added. |
| January 2006 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading Links to "NOF-digitise Technical Standards and Guidelines.Version One; June 2000." disabled and links to a page with newer versions added. Links to "Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)Draft Recommendation for Space Data System ..." disabled and alternative links added. |
| September 2005 |
Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading Link to "http://www.nof-digitise.org" (New Opportunities Fund) disabled and link to new page added. |
| June 2005 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading Link to "Jefcoate, G. (1997).'Training for a national library website: the experience of the British Library.' Gabriel workshop, session V - Human Resources and Training." disabled as Gabriel has cease as a project and the page is no longer available. Link to "Essex Data Archive, Guide to Depositing Data. A guide and forms for depositors with the Essex Data Archive.This includes a pro forma licence agreement." disabled - and link to new page added. |
| April 2005 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading Three links to "NOF-digitise Technical Standards and Guidelines.Version One; June 2000." disabled and links to a page with newer versions added. |
| February 2005 |
Organisational Activities: References Link to "A striking example of the potential pitfalls of reliance of converting email to paper can be found in the PROFS case involving the National Archives and Records Administration in the USA." disabled as the document is no longer accessible. A link to a document with information on PROFS was added. |
| January 2005 |
Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading Link to "Public Record Office (UK). (1999). Electronic Records from Office Systems Project (EROS). Series of guides on management, appraisal and preservation of electronic records in government. Kew, Surrey, 1999." disabled - the EROS project has now ended. Link to a page with links to relevant guidance added. |
| December 2004 |
Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading Link to "Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Draft Recommendation for Space Data System Standard. May 1999." replaced by link to a page from which the document is accessible as either a pdf or word document. (Two instances). Link to http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk disabled as HCU no longer in existence. |
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November 2004 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars and Further Reading Link to "Public Record Office Victoria (Australia). (2000). Standard for the Management of Electronic Records in the Victorian Government.Version 1.0,April 2000. (PROS 99/007)" disabled and link to Version 2 added. Link to "Public Record Office. EROS (Electronic Records in Office Systems) programme." disabled - the EROS project has now ended. Link to a page with links to relevant guidance added. Organisational Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading Link to "Public Record Office Victoria (Australia). (2000). Standard for the Management of Electronic Records in the Victorian Government.Version 1.0,April 2000. (PROS 99/007)" disabled and link to Version 2 added. Link to "National Archive of New Zealand. (1998). Appraisal Standard, Standard for the Appraisal of Public Records and Archives.Wellington, 1998." disabled and link to PDF added. Link to "Electronic Records Management: Framework for Information Age Government. March 2000." disabled and link to April 2000 version added. Link to "Beagrie, N. and Greenstein, D. (1998). A Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collections. Version 4.0 (Final Draft). ELib Supporting Study P3. Library Information Technology Centre, South Bank University, London." disabled and link to Version 5 added. Link to "Kingma, B. (1999).The Economics of Digital Access: the Early Canadiana Online Project. http://www.canadiana.org/eco/english/kingma.pdf" and link to a 2000 version of "The Costs of Print, Fiche, and Digital Access The Early Canadiana Online Project" by Bruce R. Kingma added. Link to "Beagrie, N. and Greenstein, D. (1998). A Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collections. Version 4.0 (Final Draft). ELib Supporting Study P3. Library Information Technology Centre, South Bank University, London." disabled and link to Version 5 added. Organisational Activities: Creating Electronic Records Link to "Electronic Records Management: Framework for Information Age Government. March 2000." disabled and link to April 2000 version added.
Organisational Activities: References Link to "Electronic Records Management: Framework for Information Age Government. March 2000." disabled and link to April 2000 version added. |
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May 2002 |
Online Edition Version 1.0 developed by This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for the Digital Preservation Coalition All URL's checked and updated Web hotlinks and navigation for online edition Decision tree (figure 4) explanatory text added to Question 5 Search Other Resources facility (search archives of Digital Preservation JISCmail list and search Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) Gateway) added to Exemplars and Further Reading sections |
| February 2002 | Limited Edition CD produced for DPC launch at House of Commons |
| October 2001 | Print publication published by British Library |
| October 2000 | Pre-publication review draft on web |
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