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Digital Preservation of Dynamic Reference Works: Where do we go from here?. Heather Ruland Staines American Library Association, Anaheim, June 24, 2012. When we say reference works….
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Digital Preservation of Dynamic Reference Works: Where do we go from here? Heather Ruland Staines American Library Association, Anaheim, June 24, 2012
What digital preservation initiatives does Springer participate in?--KB --GNL--Portico --CLOCKSS--LOCKSS--The Keepers (beta)
How does Springer preserve our eBooks and Reference Works? • PDFs + metadata OR xml/epub files when available • Preservation plan by the initiative (applicable) • Internally via Content Management System
Growing, dynamic, concept-based works, managed on a collaborative basis • Versions linked by doi suffixes, time stamps, histories, or CrossMarks • Access Model or Access Plus eReferences
Business Models and Digital Preservation: • Access Models versus Perpetual Access • Versioning and Updates • eReferences (publishers may or may not update) vs. Digital Collections (constantly expanding) • eReferences paired with journals (semantic enrichment) • Reference platforms with interlinking
How is the content collected/preserved? • Media storage vs FTP site • ONIX feed of content + metadata • Updated content may be replace previous version or be preserved alongside previous version(s) • Harvesting via LOCKSS box or similar crawl • Tagging in markup for http queries indicates whether content has changed since it was last collected • Metadata from preservation initiative is collected by The Keepers
What are we trying to preserve? • Content (individual articles, images, maps, tables, datasets) • Organizational structure • Inter-connections and Linking • User Experience • User Generated Content • Concepts and the information surrounding the concepts ?
Main issues for publishers: • Reference works are becoming more dynamic and much closer to databases • Proliferation of file types that are included in these works • Ensuring that citations, updates, errata, and addenda are connected and resolve properly • What to Preserve: Snapshot versus entire User Experience • Where do we go from here? Interactive experiences are becoming more like games (learning platforms, book-like objects) Preserve me! “Book-like Object”?
Thank you! Dr. Heather Ruland Staines Senior Manager eOperations Heather.staines@springer.com