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The Arts and Humanities Data Service

The Arts and Humanities Data Service. Permanent Access - Preserving Electronic Journals presentation to Digitising Journals: Conference on future strategies for European Libraries 13-14 March 2000 Neil Beagrie Acting Director, Arts and Humanities Data Service, King’s College London.

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The Arts and Humanities Data Service

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  1. The Arts and Humanities Data Service Permanent Access - Preserving Electronic Journals presentation to Digitising Journals: Conference on future strategies for European Libraries 13-14 March 2000 Neil Beagrie Acting Director, Arts and Humanities Data Service, King’s College London

  2. Overview • Work in Progress: NEDLIB, KB, CEDARS, BL, NLA, AHDS • growth of electronic information, online journals • issues • technical • organisational • Data creation and collaboration

  3. Growth of Electronic Information World Computer Disk Storage after Michael Lesk http://www.gii.getty.edu/timeandbits/ksg.html • ? Number of Electronic Journals to double in next 5 years • By 2020 ”90% of everything you read will be delivered in an electronic form” Dick Brass Microsoft • Traditional printed publications still increasing (+6%)

  4. Awareness & Preparation • Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions M.Hedstrom and S. Montgomery Dec 1998 http://www.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html

  5. Archiving Issues for Electronic Journals • Media Degradation - risks- maintenance • Technological Obsolescence- rapid obsolescence -role of standards -migration and emulation • Long-term Access - user needs • Authenticity - moved through new technologies, significant attributes, look and feel, links, functionality;easily amended and copied • Intellectual Property - access issues in digital materials, no automatic right to copy & archive • Online Journals -harvesting,access

  6. Metadata • Importance of metadata to future preservation and access • NLA, CEDARS, NEDLIB schemes • linking preservation/acquisition/accessioning • Significant additional processing costs -missing data • importance of data creators and early automated data capture

  7. Legal Issues • Content and/or software • Copying - modifying • Licensing access to back issues • National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative http://www.nesli.ac.uk • Legal Deposit • Common Deposit/Model Licence Agreements • JISC/PA • AHDS

  8. Life-cycle-Continuum • A Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collections http://ahds.ac.uk/manage/framework.htm • Preservation Management of Digital Materials workbook • life-cycle of a resource • creation (planning and implementation) • management and preservation • use • legal & business environment • Relationship and dependencies • Importance of data creation / relationship with publisher

  9. Collaboration • NEDLIB • http://www.kb.nl/nedlib/ • CEDARS • http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/index.htm • RLG/OCLC/DLF • http://www.thames.rlg.org/toc.html • AHDS - Digital Preservation Workbook • http://ahds.ac.uk/manage/licstudy.html

  10. Contact Details • website- http://ahds.ac.uk • email - neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk • JISC Digital Preservation Focus -June 2000

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