Title
Exploring Variety in Digital Collections and the Implications for Digital Preservation
Abstract
The amount of digital content produced at academic research institutions is large, and libraries and archives at these institutions have a responsibility to bring this digital material under curatorial control in order to manage and preserve it over time. But this is a daunting task with few proven models, requiring new technology, policies, procedures, core staff competencies, and cost models. The MIT Libraries are working with the DSpace (TM) open-source digital repository platform to explore the problem of capturing research and teaching material in any digital format and preserving it over time. By collaborating on this problem with other research institutions using the DSpace platform in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and other parts of the world, as well as with other important efforts in the digital preservation arena, we are beginning to see ways of managing arbitrary digital content that might make digital preservation an achievable goal.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1353/lib.2006.0009
LIBRARY TRENDS
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital repository,digital libraries,dspace
Digital preservation,World Wide Web,Competence (human resources),Computer science,DSPACE,Digital transformation,Electronic document,Digital library,Library science,Digital asset management,Digital content
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
54
1
0024-2594
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
1.16
1
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
MacKenzie Smith1275.10