Digital Preservation of Dynamic Reference Works: Where do we go from here?
Heather Ruland Staines
American Library Association, Anaheim, June 24, 2012
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When we say reference works…
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What digital preservation initiatives does Springer participate in?
--KB
--GNL
--Portico
--CLOCKSS
--LOCKSS
--The Keepers (beta)
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How does Springer preserve our eBooks and Reference Works?
• PDFs + metadata OR xml/epub files when available
• Preservation plan by the initiative (applicable)
• Internally via Content Management System
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• Growing, dynamic, concept-based works, managed on a collaborative basis
• Versions linked by doi suffixes, time stamps, histories, or CrossMarks
• Access Model or Access Plus eReferences
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Business Models and Digital Preservation:
• Access Models versus Perpetual Access
• Versioning and Updates
• eReferences (publishers may or may not update) vs. Digital Collections (constantly
expanding)
• eReferences paired with journals (semantic enrichment)
• Reference platforms with interlinking
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How is the content collected/preserved?
• Media storage vs FTP site
• ONIX feed of content + metadata
– Updated content may be replace previous version or be preserved alongside previous
version(s)
• Harvesting via LOCKSS box or similar crawl
– Tagging in markup for http queries indicates whether content has changed since it was
last collected
• Metadata from preservation initiative is collected by The Keepers
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What are we trying to preserve?
• Content (individual articles, images, maps, tables, datasets)
• Organizational structure
• Inter-connections and Linking
• User Experience
• User Generated Content
• Concepts and the information surrounding the concepts
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Main issues for publishers:
• Reference works are becoming more dynamic and much closer to databases
• Proliferation of file types that are included in these works
• Ensuring that citations, updates, errata, and addenda are connected and resolve properly
• What to Preserve: Snapshot versus entire User Experience
• Where do we go from here? Interactive experiences are becoming more like games
(learning platforms, book-like objects)
“Book-like Object”?
Preserve me!