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Marie Reddan

Digital Preservation: "How will I read this conference content in 25 years time"- A strategic role for HEAnet in digital preservation. Marie Reddan Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference. Overview.

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  1. Digital Preservation: "How will I read this conference content in 25 years time"- A strategic role for HEAnet in digital preservation Marie Reddan Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  2. Overview • Data Stewardship - Digital Preservation and Curation • Issues in digital preservation • Current activity in Ireland in creating digital content • Challenges arising from digitisation projects • Lifecycle management of data - advantages of a co-ordinated approach • Advocacy and progress to date • Advancing a national strategy for digital preservation Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  3. Data Stewardship Preservation Curation “ …Preservation entails standards-based, active management practices that guide data throughout the research life cycle, as well as ensure the long-term usability of these digital resources…” “ …Curation involves ways of organising, displaying, and repurposing preserved data…” To stand the test of time: long-term stewardship of digital data sets in science and Engineering …ARL / National Science Foundation …2006 www.arl.org/pp/access/nsfworkshop.shtml Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  4. Issues in digital preservation • Preservation of the object in itself not enough • Speed of technological change • BBC Domesday project • http://www.atsf.co.uk/dottext/domesday.html • Volume of digital content • National heritage / national importance • Importance of national strategies and infrastructure • Digital preservation will not happen by chance Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  5. Current activity in Ireland in creating digital content • Huge investment in research and resultant digitised output • Academic Research • Government funded Research Projects • Libraries and Archives • Research Institutions • Not just print …multimedia Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

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  12. Challenges arising from digitisation projects • Nature and Lifecycle of projects • Awareness of research work in progress • Technical support issues • Funding problems • Importance of Standards • Issues of selectivity for long-term preservation Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  13. Lifecycle management of data - advantages of a co-ordinated approach • Generally accepted and applied standards • Ability to aggregate and organise content created • Ability to build on content created – innovation and creativity • Centralised or distinct sources of expertise • Promotion, education and training • Technical support • Active management of data • Preservation for long term usability • Curation of data / re-purposing of preserved data • Security of content Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  14. Advocacy and progress to date Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  15. Irish Manuscripts Commission • Develop a comprehensive, inter-departmental framework to implement a national strategy for a digital infrastructure linked to a trusted digital repository; Irish Manuscripts Commission Digitisation Policy 2007 http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/downloads/IMC%20DTF%20report%20210607.pdf • Devise a national strategy that is flexible enough to respond to the dynamic nature of digitisation projects and the technology underpinning them; it must also aim to ensure that digitised resources/ objects are openly accessible, and developed using internationally recognised protocols for data capture and long-term digital preservation; Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  16. Royal Irish Academy Digital Humanities Observatory DHO ADVANCING HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH IN IRELAND a report by the Royal Irish Academy 2007 http://www.ria.ie/policy/pdfs/website.pdf The DHO was established to manage and co-ordinate the increasingly complex e-resources created in the arts and humanities. It will enable research and researchers in Ireland to keep abreast of international developments in the creation, use, and preservation of digital resources. Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  17. Funding Bodies • Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) • Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) “ …Suitable repositories should make provision for long-term preservation of and free public access to, published research findings …” Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  18. Advancing a national strategy for digital preservation Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  19. Role for HEAnet? • Key role • Implementing and supporting a national Digital Preservation strategy at the technical level • How? • In collaboration with key stakeholders • Why HEAnet? • Data storage is a key strategy of HEAnet • Is the Irish national academic and research network - working with all Irish HE and Research Institutions • Is a major player in international networking • Technical expertise • Is responsible for the shared infrastructure which is built, maintained and updated • Storage is part of that infrastructure which can be maintained and preserved • Building on what we already have Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  20. Finally …. Like the Librarian in the Book … –”… it is not for us ordinary monks to know where the information is actually kept: it is enough that we can be given access to it when we need it …” Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  21. Digital Preservation: "How will I read this conference content in 25 years time” - Part 2: DHO Preservation Strategies Don Gourley, IT Manager, Digital Humanities Observatory Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  22. Digital Humanities Observatory • Part of the Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS) consortium to develop an all-island inter-institutional research infrastructure for the humanities • Defining, promoting and implementing best practices for… • Digitisation • Archival • Curation • Discovery • Presentation • 3 years funding under cycle four of the Programme of Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  23. Addressing preservation in 3 years • Work with partners • Exploit national infrastructure and services • Create interoperable and shared services • Promote and deploy best practices • Implement specific preservation strategies • Create preservable digital content Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  24. HSIS partners: digital content creation and use • An Foras Feasa • National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) • Dublin City University (DCU) • Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT) • St. Patrick's College • The Global Ireland Institute • University College Dublin (UCD) • Institute of Technology, Tallaght (ITT) • Queen’s University Belfast • Texts, Contexts, Cultures • National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) • Trinity College Dublin • University College Cork • Unaffiliated HSIS Partners • National College of Art and Design (NCAD) • Royal Irish Academy • University of Ulster Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  25. e-INIS partners: technical support and infrastructure • ICHEC, Grid-Ireland, HEAnet • Systems development support • Web hosting • National federated data store • Data management and preservation services Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  26. DHO infrastructure for digital preservation “View digital preservation as a series of holding positions, or perhaps as a relay. Make your dispositions on the basis of the timescale you can foresee and for which you have funding. Preserve your objects to the best of your ability, and hand them on to your successor in good order at the end of your lap of the relay. In good order here means that the digital objects are intact, and that you have sufficient metadata and documentation to be able to demonstrate authenticity, provenance, and to give future users a good chance to access or use those digital objects.” Chris Rusbridge, 2006 Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  27. Best practices for digital preservation • Take care of the bits (backup, refresh, etc.) • Keep content discoverable, accessible, usable & re-usable • Implement strategies to ensure content is “in good order” • Standards • Migration • Encapsulation Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  28. DHO preservation strategies: standards Application profiles Object structures Metadata schemas Data formats Encoding formats community-specific DC Education METS RDF TEI Dublin Core TIFF XML JPEG WAV PCM ISO-8859-1 generic Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  29. DHO preservation strategies: migration Application profiles Object structures Metadata schemas Data formats Encoding formats DC Education METS RDF TEI Dublin Core TIFF JPEG2000 XML JPEG WAV PCM ISO-8859-1 Unicode Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  30. DHO preservation strategies: encapsulation • Structured digital objects • Persistent digital object identifier • Representation documentation • Provenance information • Context • Fixity • Content datastreams Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  31. “How will I read this conference in 25 years time?” ASXWMV PDF PHP HTML PPT Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

  32. Questions? • I have a few . . . • Selection? • Funding? • Access rights? • Authenticity? • …? Lighting the Future: Strategies for Education and Research Networking. HEAnet’s National Networking Conference

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