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Preservation – Why the Urgency?. “A National Library is a place where a nation nourishes its memory and exerts its imagination – where it connects with its past and invents its future.” Pierre Ryckmans. Preservation – Why the Urgency?.
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Preservation – Why the Urgency? “A National Library is a place where a nation nourishes its memory and exerts its imagination – where it connects with its past and invents its future.” Pierre Ryckmans
Preservation – Why the Urgency? “To poison a nation, poison its stories.A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself.” Okri, Ben. 1997. A way of being free. Phoenix House,1997.
Legislative Mandate for Preservation National Library of New Zealand Act 2003 http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/about/1keypolnlact.html • The purpose of the National Library is to enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations by, as appropriate,- • (a) collecting, preserving, and protecting documents, particularly those relating to New Zealand, and making them accessible for all the people of New Zealand, in a manner consistent with their status as documentary heritage and taonga;
Preservation Metadata Schema NLNZ’s Metadata Standards Framework 2000 Preservation Metadata – November 2002/June 2003 http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/whatsnew/4initiatives.html#meta • schema – a logical model • data model - for implementation • extract tool • repository.
Preservation Metadata Schema The four entities of the NLNZ schema.
Digital Strategies • Business process workflows, eg selection, acquisition, handling of digital objects • Infrastructure for digital material, eg storage, access, file naming, data authentication – the idea of the trusted repository • Associated Digital Library activities, eg metadata (resource discovery, preservation, structural) and persistent identifiers • Web harvesting for the capture and preservation of New Zealand web sites • Bulk digitisation of textual materials • Migration and emulation (especially of complex objects)
Next Steps • Standards development • Data model • Extract tool • XML representations • Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS) • The practical experience that NLNZ and other organisations will gain from managing a wide range of digital objects.
Repositories RLG/OCLC Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository • Compliance with the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) • Administrative responsibility • Organizational viability • Financial sustainability • Technological and procedural suitability • System security • Procedural accountability
Overview of the OAIS Model from Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System
Courtesy of Anne Kenney – Cornell University 1. Administrative Responsibility 2. Organisational Viability Digital Archives Border 3. Financial Sustainability 6. Accountability (Certification) 4. Technological Sustanability 5. System Security 6. Procedural Accountability
Courtesy of Anne Kenney – Cornell University 1. Administrative Responsibility 2. Organisational Viability Digital Archives Border 3. Financial Sustainability 6. Accountability (Certification) 4. Technological Sustanability 5. System Security 6. Procedural Accountability
Secure Integrated Digital Preservation Matrix Courtesy of Anne Kenney – Cornell University External Relations and Dependencies Certification Program Administrative Responsibility/Viability Digital Archives Border Value added Services Financial Model Program Components
Preservation Metadata & Nirvana – An Impossible Dream? Resourcing Trust Resourcing Trust Nirvana Sustainability Sustainability
Preservation – Why the Urgency? “Nothing makes clearer that a library is an organisation, rather than a building or a collection, than the requirement for institutional commitment if electronic information is to have more than a fleeting existent.”(Peter Graham) “The real challenge is creating appropriate organisational contexts for action.” (Paul Conway)
