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		<title>More on *very* long term digital preservation</title>
		<link>http://alanake.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/more-on-very-long-term-digital-preservation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And by long term, I mean after the end of technological civilisation, as explored in my earlier post here. Richard Heinberg&#8217;s Post-Carbon Institute blog has a post about the importance of librarians and archivists in trying to keep cultural knowledge alive after the power goes out.  It&#8217;s a bit doomladen, even for me, but he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2341016&amp;post=237&amp;subd=alanake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RODA: Portugal&#8217;s new digital preservation repository</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RODA (Repository of Authentic Digital Objects) is a Portuguese initiative to preserve government authentic digital objects. It is based on Fedora Commons, and supports the preservation of text documents, raster images, relational databases, video and audio. It runs in Java on a suitable browser. RODA&#8217;s core preservation stragey is migration, but it keeps the original representation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2341016&amp;post=214&amp;subd=alanake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WARC international standard</title>
		<link>http://alanake.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/warc-international-standard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WARC format for web archiving is now ISO 28500:2009. The format is used by the Internet Archive. Here&#8217;s the release from the Library of Congress: The International Internet Preservation Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of the WARC file format as an international standard: ISO 28500:2009, Information and documentation &#8212; WARC file format.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2341016&amp;post=209&amp;subd=alanake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving a record office&#8230; with barcodes</title>
		<link>http://alanake.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/moving-a-record-office-with-barcodes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reason why I&#8217;ve been away from digi preservation for so long is that I&#8217;ve been managing the move of our paper archives from one repository to another.  The move itself has gone more smoothly than I dared to hope: everything happened on schedule, the ICT didn&#8217;t let me down, all the boxes fitted their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2341016&amp;post=198&amp;subd=alanake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When will digital preservation come to an end?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the short answer is 2037, plus or minus a few years. That&#8217;s not a flippant answer, either. All forms of digital preservation really will stop around 2037, unless some kind of energy supply breakthrough happens. How do we arrive at this date? Let&#8217;s go thorough this step by step. Technological collapse The fundamental premise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2341016&amp;post=176&amp;subd=alanake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digital business records and the recession</title>
		<link>http://alanake.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/digital-business-records-and-the-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local authority archive services in the UK tend to have very good collections of parish records and local government records, but have poorer collections of business archives. In my experience business records are only deposited when the business itself has been liquidated, or been taken over, or when it has simply vanished from a building [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2341016&amp;post=188&amp;subd=alanake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GAIP: Gloucestershire Archives&#8217; digital preservation tool</title>
		<link>http://alanake.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/gaip-gloucestershire-archives-digital-preservation-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I visited Gloucestershire Archives to have a look at their GAIP (Gloucestershire Archives Ingest Package) software. GAIP is a little Perl app which is open source and nicely platform independent (yesterday we saw it in action on both XP and Fedora). Using GAIP, you can take a digital file, or a collection of files, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2341016&amp;post=174&amp;subd=alanake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DARP 2 report: The state of digital record keeping in a selection of typical depositors to UK local archives services</title>
		<link>http://alanake.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/darp-2-report-the-state-of-digital-record-keeping-in-a-selection-of-typical-depositors-to-uk-local-archives-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MLA East of England has published the report on Phase 2 of its Digital Preservation Regional Pilot Project (DARP 2). The report is available as a PDF here. Phase 2 was carried out by Bedfordshire County Council over the period September 2007-June 2008. The project is of great use to UK local authority record offices, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2341016&amp;post=169&amp;subd=alanake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PREMIS Data Dictionary 2.0</title>
		<link>http://alanake.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/premis-data-dictionary-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) Editorial Committee has published version 2.0 of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for preservation metadata. PREMIS is an international initiative which has created a common metadata standard for long-term digital preservation with a broad area of application. The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata Version 2.0 is available for free [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2341016&amp;post=165&amp;subd=alanake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>List of problems with web archiving approaches</title>
		<link>http://alanake.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/list-of-problems-with-web-archiving-approaches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problems of domain crawls The legal approach is usually a risk-based one, ie. harvest the content and then take it down if the creator objects. If the creator starts a court case then the costs of this approach could be very expensive. The approach has no basis in law. Copying any site without the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2341016&amp;post=159&amp;subd=alanake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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