Name
Abstract | ||
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The Digital Preservation Program of the California Digital Library (CDL) is engaged in a process of reinvention involving significant transformations of its outlook, effort, and infrastructure. This includes a re-articulation of its mission in terms of digital curation, rather than preservation; encouraging a programmatic, rather than a project-oriented approach to curation activities; and a renewed emphasis on services, rather than systems. This last shift was motivated by a desire to deprecate the centrality of the repository as place. Having the repository as the locus for curation activity has resulted in the deployment of a somewhat cumbersome monolithic system that falls short of desired goals for responsiveness to rapidly changing user needs and operational and administrative sustainability. The Program is pursuing a path towards a new curation environment based on the principle of devolving curation function to a set of small, simple, loosely coupled services. In considering this new infrastructure, the Program is relying upon a highly deliberative process starting from first principles drawn from library and archival science. This is followed by a stagewise progression of identifying core preservable values, devising strategies promoting those values, defining abstract services embodying those strategies, and, finally, developing systems that instantiate those services. This paper presents a snapshot of the Program's transformative efforts in its early phase. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2009 | 10.2218/ijdc.v4i1.72 | IJDC |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
first principle,digital library | Data mining,Digital preservation,Software deployment,Transformative learning,Computer science,Monolithic system,Knowledge management,Data curation,Archival science,Digital library,Digital curation | Journal |
Volume | Issue | Citations |
4 | 1 | 6 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.87 | 10 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Abrams | 1 | 28 | 6.17 |
| Patricia Cruse | 2 | 41 | 6.07 |
| John Kunze | 3 | 54 | 20.77 |