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Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library

Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library. Drs. Anne Katrien Amse Head of the Acquisition & Processing Department Koninklijke Bibliotheek , National library of the Netherlands. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future

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Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library

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  1. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library Drs. Anne Katrien Amse Head of the Acquisition & Processing Department Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National library of the Netherlands

  2. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library • The Dutch national library and its function in the digital era • The implementation of the Digital Archiving System at the KB • Library process redesign

  3. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library • The Dutch national library and its function in the digital era • Maintain a deposit library of Dutch publications • Keep the publications accessible forever

  4. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library The challenges posed by the digital era • Technical aspects • Economic aspects • Cultural aspects

  5. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library Economic aspects • A fast increase of the supply of publications • More or less the same budget

  6. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library Cultural aspects • Procedures and international standard rules for bibliographic description are based on printed matter • A new mind-set is needed

  7. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library Implementation Programme • Development of interfaces for the catalogue and other digital library functions • Workflow • Usability test • Acquire new skills for processing digital publications

  8. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library Test results processing by hand of offline publications: • Time-consuming • 30 percent can’t be processed • Security measures are not visible beforehand

  9. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library Library Process Redesign: considerations • Highest priority: content • The basis of any modern publication: ‘virtual’ intangible content • The Digital Archiving System has no use for the original carrier • Storage and maintenance of publications including security measures and searching facilities is impossible or not allowed

  10. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library Library process redesign • A more general level of selection • A more detailed level of bibliographical description • Version management • New acquisition methods

  11. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library A more general level of selection • Only one manifestation of a publication, preferably the (a) digital one • Reduction of the number of digital publications on carriers to be processed manually • Installables: storage of content and installation software • Print only: one edition of every ISBN

  12. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library Automatic version and metadata management • More detailed bibliographic description • Regular updates

  13. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library New acquisition methods Pilot Webarchiving: • Webharvesting • Bibliographic description and archiving of the harvest

  14. Safeguarding the historic resources of the future Digital Archiving at the Dutch National Library Conclusions • KB’s Digital Archiving System will be operational in 2003, but will need further research and development • KB made the first steps to a new library process design • International co-operation and exchange of information is necessary

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