Table of Contents- (new sections and chapters w.r.t. the German version of this book are printed in bold face)- Part I: Approaches to Long-Term Preservation (approx. 155 pages)- 1 Long-term Preservation of Digital Documents (approx. 23 pages)- 1.1 Blessing and Curse of Digital Documents- 1.2 Challenges, Terms, Concepts- 1.3 Preserving Byte Streams- 1.4 Technical Approaches to Long-term Preservation- 1.5 Legal and Social Issues- 2 The OAIS Reference Model and the DSEP Process Model (approx. 13 pages)- 2.1 The OAIS Reference Model- 2.1.1 Background Information- 2.1.2 Information Model- 2.1.3 Process Model- 2.2 The DSEP Process Model for Libraries- 3 Migration (approx. 23 pages)- 3.1 Migration: Notions and Goals- 3.2 Migration as a Means for Long-term Preservation- 3.2.1 Data Formats as Migration Targets- 3.2.2 Migration via Changing Media- 3.2.3 Migration via Changing Logical Structure- 3.3 Preservation Processes in Migration Approaches- 3.4 Migration: Pros and Cons- 4 Emulation (approx. 27 pages)- 4.1 Emulation: Notions and Goals- 4.2 Emulation as a Means for Long-term Preservation- 4.2.1 What exactly means Emulation?- 4.2.2 Variants of Emulation- 4.2.3 Exploiting Virtual Machines- 4.3 Preservation Processes in Emulation Approaches- 4.4 Emulation: Pros and Cons- 5 Document Markup (approx. 25 pages)- 5.1 An Example- 5.2 Different Forms of Markup- 5.2.1 Procedural, Structural, Semantic Markup- 5.2.2 Embedded Markup Considered Harmful- 5.2.3 Levels of Markup- 5.3 Exploiting Markup for Long-term Preservation- 5.3.1 Requirements for Long-term Preservation- 5.3.2 Bibliographic Requirements- 5.4 Persistence is a Virtue- 5.4.1 Uniform Resource Identifier, -Name, -Locator- 5.4.2 Referencing Documents- 5.4.3 Handles and Digital Object Identifiers- 5.4.4 Summary- 6 Standard Markup Languages (approx. 26 pages)- 6.1 Standards for Syntactic Document Markup- 6.1.1 Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)- 6.1.2 Portable Document Format (PDF)- 6.1.3 HyperText Markup Language (HTML)- 6.1.4 eXtensible Markup Language (XML)- 6.2 Standards for Semantic Document Markup- 6.2.1 Resource Description Framework (RDF)- 6.2.2 Topic Maps- 6.2.3 Ontologies- 6.3 Vision: The Semantic Web- 7 Discussion (approx. 11 pages)- 7.1 Why do You Need to Act NOW?- 7.2 What do We Know already, What Remains to be Done?- 7.3 Facing Reality- 7.4 A Combined Approach - Part II: Recent Preservation Initiatives (approx. 157 pages)- (Projects are subject to change)- 8 Markup: Current Research and Development (approx. 50 pages)- 8.1 The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)- 8.2 The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)- 8.3 The Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS)- 8.3 The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)- 8.4 The Research Libraries Group (RLG)- 8.5 The Pandora Project- 9 Migration: Current Research and Development (approx. 50 pages)- 9.1 Migration in the VERS Project- 9.2 Preserving the Whole- 9.3 Risk Management of Digital Information- 9.4 Database Migration- 9.4.1 Motivation- 9.4.2 Overview of the Architecture- 9.4.3 Detaching Digital Objects from Physical Media- 9.4.4 Services of Database Management Systems- 9.4.5 Experiments- 9.4.6 Discussion- 10 Emulation: Current Research and Development (approx. 16 pages)- 10.1 Emulation Experiments by Rothenberg- 10.2 Universal Virtual Computer (UVC)- 11 Digital Archiving Systems for Long-Term Preservation (approx. 40 pages)- 11.1 Assessment Methodology- 11.2 Market Survey- 11.2.1 EPrints (University of Southampton)- 11.2.2 DSpace (MIT)- 11.2.3 DIAS (IBM/National Library of the Netherlands)- 11.2.4 Fedora (Cornell University, The University of Virginia) - List of Figures- List of Tables- References- Index
EAN/ISBN : 9783540336402
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin
Discussed keywords: Archive, Information und Dokumentation (IuD), Informationssystem
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Borghoff, Uwe M. - Rodig, Peter - Schmitz, Lothar