Marie Reddan

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Digital Preservation: "How will I read this conference content in 25 years time"- A strategic role for HEAnet in digital preservation Marie Reddan

Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

+Overview

Data Stewardship - Digital Preservation and Curation

Issues in digital preservation

Current activity in Ireland in creating digital content

Challenges arising from digitisation projects

Lifecycle management of data - advantages of a co-ordinated approach

Advocacy and progress to date

Advancing a national strategy for digital preservation

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+Data Stewardship

“ …Preservation entails standards-based, active management practices that guide data throughout the research life cycle, as well as ensure the long-term usability of these digital resources…”

“ …Curation involves ways of organising, displaying, and repurposing preserved data…”

To stand the test of time: long-term stewardship of digital data sets in science and Engineering …ARL / National Science Foundation …2006

www.arl.org/pp/access/nsfworkshop.shtml

Preservation Curation

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+Issues in digital preservation

Preservation of the object in itself not enough

Speed of technological change BBC Domesday project

http://www.atsf.co.uk/dottext/domesday.html

Volume of digital content National heritage / national importance Importance of national strategies and infrastructure

Digital preservation will not happen by chance

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+Current activity in Ireland in creating digital content Huge investment in research and resultant digitised output

Academic Research

Government funded Research Projects

Libraries and Archives

Research Institutions

Not just print …multimedia

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+ Challenges arising from digitisation projects

Nature and Lifecycle of projects

Awareness of research work in progress

Technical support issues

Funding problems

Importance of Standards

Issues of selectivity for long-term preservation

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+ Lifecycle management of data - advantages of a co-ordinated approach

Generally accepted and applied standards

Ability to aggregate and organise content created

Ability to build on content created – innovation and creativity

Centralised or distinct sources of expertise Promotion, education and training Technical support

Active management of data Preservation for long term usability Curation of data / re-purposing of preserved data Security of content

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+Advocacy and progress to date

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+Irish Manuscripts Commission

Develop a comprehensive, inter-departmental framework to implement a national strategy for a digital infrastructure linked to a trusted digital repository;

Irish Manuscripts Commission

Digitisation Policy

http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/downloads/IMC%20DTF%20report%20210607.pdf

Devise a national strategy that is flexible enough to respond to the dynamic nature of digitisation projects and the technology underpinning them; it must also aim to ensure that digitised resources/ objects are openly accessible, and developed using internationally recognised protocols for data capture and long-term digital preservation;

+Royal Irish Academy

Digital Humanities Observatory DHO

ADVANCING HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

RESEARCH

IRELAND

a report by the Royal Irish Academy

http://www.ria.ie/policy/pdfs/website.pdf

The DHO was established to manage and co-ordinate the increasingly complex e-resources created in the arts and humanities. It will enable research and researchers in Ireland to keep abreast of international developments in the creation, use, and preservation of digital resources.

+Funding Bodies

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)

Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET)

“ …Suitable repositories should make provision for long-term preservation of and free public access to, published research findings …”

+Advancing a national strategy for digital preservation

+ Role for HEAnet? Key role

Implementing and supporting a national Digital Preservation strategy at the technical level

How? In collaboration with key stakeholders

Why HEAnet? Data storage is a key strategy of HEAnet Is the Irish national academic and research network - working with all Irish HE and Research Institutions

Is a major player in international networking Technical expertise Is responsible for the shared infrastructure which is built, maintained and updated

Storage is part of that infrastructure which can be maintained and preserved

Building on what we already have

+Finally ….

–”… it is not for us ordinary monks to know where the information is actually kept: it is enough that we can be given access to it when we need it …”

Like the Librarian in the Book …

Digital Preservation: "How will I read this conference content in 25 years time” - Part 2: DHO Preservation Strategies

Don Gourley, IT Manager, Digital Humanities Observatory

+Digital Humanities Observatory

Part of the Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS) consortium to develop an all-island inter-institutional research infrastructure for the humanities

Defining, promoting and implementing best practices for… Digitisation Archival Curation Discovery Presentation

3 years funding under cycle four of the Programme of Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI)

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+Addressing preservation in 3 years

Work with partners

Exploit national infrastructure and services

Create interoperable and shared services

Promote and deploy best practices

Implement specific preservation strategies

Create preservable digital content

Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking.HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

13th November 2008

+HSIS partners: digital content creation and use An Foras Feasa

National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) Dublin City University (DCU) Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT) St. Patrick's College

The Global Ireland Institute University College Dublin (UCD) Institute of Technology, Tallaght (ITT) Queen’s University Belfast

Texts, Contexts, Cultures National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) Trinity College Dublin University College Cork

Unaffiliated HSIS Partners National College of Art and Design (NCAD) Royal Irish Academy University of Ulster

+e-INIS partners: technical support and infrastructureICHEC, Grid-Ireland, HEAnet

Systems development supportWeb hostingNational federated data storeData management and preservation services

+DHO infrastructure for digital preservation

“View digital preservation as a series of holding positions, or perhaps as a relay. Make your dispositions on the basis of the timescale you can foresee and for which you have funding. Preserve your objects to the best of your ability, and hand them on to your successor in good order at the end of your lap of the relay. In good order here means that the digital objects are intact, and that you have sufficient metadata and documentation to be able to demonstrate authenticity, provenance, and to give future users a good chance to access or use those digital objects.”

Chris Rusbridge, 2006

+Best practices for digital preservation

Take care of the bits (backup, refresh, etc.)

Keep content discoverable, accessible, usable & re-usable

Implement strategies to ensure content is “in good order” Standards Migration Encapsulation

+DHO preservation strategies: standards

Application profiles

Object structures

Metadata schemas

Data formats

Encoding formats

ISO-8859-1

RDFTEI

Dublin Core

DC Education

community-specific

genericPCM

+DHO preservation strategies: migration

Application profiles

Object structures

Metadata schemas

Data formats

Encoding formats

ISO-8859-1

RDFTEI

Dublin Core

DC Education

Unicode

JPEG2000

+DHO preservation strategies: encapsulation

Structured digital objects Persistent digital object identifier Representation documentation Provenance information Context Fixity Content datastreams

+“How will I read this conference in 25 years time?”

ASXWMV

PHP HTML

+Questions?

I have a few . . .

Selection?Funding?Access rights?Authenticity?…?

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