Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture (PDT&C)

Published by De Gruyter Saur

Volume 42 Issue 4

November 2013

Issue of Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture (PDT&C)

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Journal Overview

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From the Editor-in-Chief

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Articles

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Look before You License: The Use of Public Sharing Websites in Building Co-Created Community Repositories

Tomas A. Lipinski, Andrea Copeland

Page range: 174-198

Abstract

The legal aspects of building a co-created community repository (CCR) are explored through the examination of existing commercial web-based services. To determine whether commercial services offer a practicable option or a model for the creation of a CCR’s terms of service (TOS), we analyzed six websites. The TOS contain the rules under which content can be stored, accessed, shared, etc. This TOS assessment is based on the consideration of four attributes, applied in a legal context: functionality, integrity, provenance, and permanence. While many of the features of a successful CCR are found across the services, none possesses all of the required elements. Recommendations for preferable CCR TOS are offered.

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Chronicles in Preservation: Preserving Digital News and Newspapers

Nick Krabbenhoeft, Katherine Skinner, Matt Schultz, Frederick Zarndt

Page range: 199-203

Abstract

Since the mid-1990s, libraries and archives have been digitizing newspapers for preservation and access. The standards used for this work have evolved significantly. Today’s collections employ digitization, metadata extraction and standards, and file formats that are different from those used for early collections. Increasingly, libraries and archives also include borndigital material. Given the importance of newspapers as primary documents of history, libraries and archives must preserve their digitized and born-digital collections carefully. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)1 has funded the Chronicles in Preservation project to study the preservation readiness of digital newspaper collections. Led by the Educopia Institute (www.educopia.org), the project has brought together seven academic libraries in the U.S. and three distributed digital preservation (DDP) systems-MetaArchive, Chronopolis, and the University of North Texas’s Coda repository. These partners are accomplishing a range of activities. First, they investigated community standards, specifications, and practices for digital newspaper collections and distilled this information into a set of Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness. Second, they exported collections from libraries and ingested them into the DDP systems, documenting these test exchanges in a Comparative Anaysis of Distributed Digital Frameworks. Finally, the project is augmenting a set of existing digital preservation tools to simplify the packaging and exchange of digital newspaper collections. This paper provides a walkthrough of the structure and contents of the Guidelines for Preservation Readiness of Digital Newspapers, shares the evaluative metrics for the Comparative Analysis of Distributed Digital Preservation Frameworks, and discusses the implementations of the interoperability tools.

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Digital Watermarks and Palimpsest Steganography in Special Collections

Jack Scott

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Abstract

Libraries today face the same challenges that they always have faced, but with the additional dimension that the world of computers engenders. Policies and practices have been developed for deterring theft and for recovering stolen library materials in the analog world, but we are in an incunabula period for doing the same for digital documents-images and pictorial and sound materials. One means of protection for both kinds of materials is marking them indelibly. This can be done in a variety of ways for physical materials, but there is a new world of electronic marking that is in its infancy. This practice, called Steganography, creates digital watermarks that can be hidden, but they may also be detected and erased. This essay discusses attempts to create digital watermarks that resist tampering with.

Reprint from Microform Review 3.3 (January 1974): 194-200

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User Resistance to Microforms in the Research Library

Stephen R. Salmon

Page range: 209-214

Conversations

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The Image Permanence Institute: An Interview with James Reilly, IPI Founder and Director

Page range: 215-218

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Current and Comments

Page range: 219-225

Reports

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Report on the 2013 Archival Education and Research Institute

Patricia B. Condon, Eliot Wilczek

Page range: 226-228

About this journal

Objective
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture (PDT&C) is an international refereed journal of high scholarly standing which focuses on preserving digital content from a wide variety of perspectives, including technological, social, economic, political, and user. Its scope is global, covering projects and practices from key international players in the field.

The intended audiences for PDT&C are librarians, archivists, museum and other cultural heritage professionals, and educators. The goal of the journal is to provide a timely forum for refereed articles, news, and field notes from around the world.

In addition to the featured refereed articles, there is a section called Currents which contains news and commentary. Further contributions include invited articles, editorials, reviews, and position papers. High quality color illustrations will add to the informative value of the content.

All articles undergo a double-blind peer review process with at least two peer reviewers (at least one external).

Topics

Digital content preservation
Culture
Information science
Library science
Preservation and restoration
Communication science

Article formats
articles, editorials, reviews, commentaries, and position papers

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Volume 42 Issue 4

Issue of Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture (PDT&C)

Masthead

Contents

Introduction (PDT&C 42.4)

PDT&C: A Forty-Year Timeline

Look before You License: The Use of Public Sharing Websites in Building Co-Created Community Repositories

Abstract

Chronicles in Preservation: Preserving Digital News and Newspapers

Abstract

Digital Watermarks and Palimpsest Steganography in Special Collections

Abstract

User Resistance to Microforms in the Research Library

The Image Permanence Institute: An Interview with James Reilly, IPI Founder and Director

Current and Comments

Report on the 2013 Archival Education and Research Institute