Monday, April 27, 2015

Finnish Digital Preservation Service for Cultural Heritage

Finnish Digital Preservation Service for Cultural Heritage. Mikko Tiainen. PASIG Presentation. March 12, 2015. [PDF]
Preservation aspects and focus of the Digital Preservation Service:
  • Semantic preservation:
    • Content knowledge and semantics
    • Descriptive metadata
  • Logical preservation
    • Preservation planning
    • Administrative & technical metadata
    • File formats
    • Preservation actions
  •  Bit-level preservation
    • Materials & replication management
    • Storage device
    • Storage media
They estimate the life cycle of the various components as:
  • Hardware
    • Hard disk storage: 5 years
    • Tape drives & media types: 5 years
    • Tape libraries: 10 years
  • Software
    • Commercial support at  least for 5 years
    • Open source maintained and developed until replaced 
Development of a high quality digital preservation system is a continuous process. 
  • Bit-level preservation
  • Preservation planning and development of preservation actions
  • Preserving the intelligibility
  • Distributed locations
This requires support services, maintenance of specifications, and ongoing management.



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