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Table of Changes made to the Handbook
| DATE |
CHANGES |
| October 2009 |
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars
and Further Reading
Institutional Strategies: Costs
and Business Modelling
Paper
presented at the Twentieth IEEE/Eleventh NASA Goddard Conference
on Mass Storage Systems & Technologies April 7-10, San Diego
link broken - updated
Institutional Strategies: Exemplars
and Further Reading
Essex Data Archive, Guide to Depositing Data.
link broken - updated |
| 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
National Library of Australia. Digital Services Project. Request
for Tender - Digital Collection Management System. no longer
available - link disabled
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
The National Grid for Learning has been scrapped – link disabled.
National Preservation Office link updated. |
| 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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/criteria.html no longer
valid - disabled |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
Bide, M. et al. (1999). Digital Preservation: an introduction to
standards issues surrounding the deposit of non-print publications.
http://www.bic.org.uk/digpres.doc URl no longer valid, updated with new location.
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
URLs http://www.icsti.org/2000workshop/gatenby.html and
http://www.icsti.org/2000workshop/index.html no
longer available - disabled
A Handbook: Endorsements and Reviews of the Handbook
Link to "Marc Fresko EDM & ERM Consulting Services Director,
Cornwell Affiliates plc in Managing Information" removed as no longer
available.
Organisational
Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading
OTA: Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts. Chapter 6: Documentation
and Metadata. http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chap6.html.
New location http://ota.oucs.ox.ac.uk/documents/creating/cdet/chap6.html |
| April 2008 |
Organisational
Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading
Archaeology Data Service, Guidelines for Depositors Version 1.1 http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/userinfo/deposit.html no
longer available. Link added to Version 1.3 at
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/userinfo/deposit.cfm
Introduction
Mailing address amended to
Digital Preservation Coalition
Innovation Centre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
Digital Preservation - References
Links
to http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/dlm/fulltext/full_ashl_en.htm
and http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/dlm/
were disabled and a new URL for information added http://ec.europa.eu/archives/ISPO/dlm/ |
| March 2008 |
The following URLs were disabled and a new URL for information
added http://ec.europa.eu/archives/ISPO/dlm/:
|
| November 2007 |
Organisational
Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading
Organisation
Activities: References
Link to " Tanner, S. and Lomax-Smith, J. (1999).'How Much Does It Really
Cost?' Paper for DRH '99 Conference." as no longer available online. |
| October 2007 |
Institutional Strategies:
Exemplars and Further Reading
Organisational Activities: Exemplars
and Further Reading
RLG/OCLC link updated |
| September 2007 |
Institutional Strategies:
Exemplars and Further Reading
Links to "National Library of Canada. Consultation on Online
Publications. (January 31 2000)" updated to archived location.
Organisational Activities: Exemplars
and Further Reading
Links to "National Archives of Australia. Recordkeeping Metadata
Standard for Commonwealth Agencies. May 1999" removed
as no longer available.
Digital Preservation: References
Guidance
on Completion of the Decision Tree
Organisational
Activities: Exemplars and Further Reading
Organisation Activities: References
the link to http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/9/8/index-e.html has been updated |
| 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
Organisation Activities: References
Organisational Activities: Creating
Electronic Records
Link to
"Electronic Records Management: Framework for Information
Age Government. April
2000" (rtf) replaced with link to PDF
Organisational Activities: Exemplars
and Further Reading
Link to "ECUP (European Copyright User Platform) Licensing
Issues" removed
as no longer available.
Introduction: Acronyms and Initials
Link to "ECUP European Copyright
User Platform" removed as no longer available. |
| 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/
pdf/best_human_resources.pdf " (Human Resources
in Records Management. Kew: Public Record Office.) disabled and
new link added.
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
TNA added
EROS Electronic Records in Office Systems - information added
and link updated
NDAD UK National Digital Archive of Datasets - 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 |
Intro: Acronyms
Link for "Research Libraries Group" updated.
|
| August 2006 |
Decision Tree: End Page
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:
Handbook section Home Page
4. Organisational Activities:
4.2.1 Appraisal and Selection
4. Organisational Activities:
4.2.2 Retention and Review
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
Organisational Activities:
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
Organisational Activities: 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. |
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.
Introduction:
References
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.
|
May 2002 |
Online Edition Version 1.0 developed by Neil
Beagrie and Brett Scillitoe
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 |