Digital Preservation Notes

I found the motivating factors aspect of the Reiger (2008) article on large scale digitization initiatives to be interesting, especially the component that discusses the motivating factors of libraries. One of these motivating factors was the ability of participating libraries to engage in research and development on how to handle large amounts of digital data. I would be interested to see some of the research that has come out of these libraries and to see how their data handling practices compare with scientific data management organizations. Are there projects at libraries that we can look at that are investigating these issues?

As with many other terms in this class, OAIS is something that I have heard referred to a number of times since starting the MLIS program, but was never clear on the details. The Lavoie article gives a great overview of the OAIS and clarifies many of the questions that I had regarding the form and function of the OAIS Reference Model. Would it be possible to point us towards a data management plan that lays out in detail, for an actual digital archive or library, a management plan that covers all of most aspects of the OAIS model? I would be interested to see how the aspects of the OAIS model are approached by a real archive or library.

References:

Lavoie, BF. 2004. The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide. DPTC Technology Series Report 04-01. OCLC Inc. and Digital Preservation Coalition.

Reiger, OY. 2008. Preservation in the age of large-scale digitization. Council on Library and Information Resources. Washington D.C.