File format obsolescence is a major risk factor threatening the ongoing usefulness of digital
information collections. While the preservation community has become increasingly …

The dominance of digital objects in today's information landscape has changed the way
humankind creates and exchanges information. However, it has also brought an entirely …

Objective: This paper describes the Lamar Soutter Library's process and costs associated
with digitizing 300 doctoral dissertations for a newly implemented institutional repository at …

O presente trabalho tentou responder ao desafio de identificar um conjunto de critérios de
preservação digital essenciais para os sistemas de informação científica nas unidades de …

If one follows any of the major cataloging or library blogs these days, it is obvious that the
topic of FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) has increasingly …

In recent years, academic libraries have launched major initiatives to make their resources
more easily available to users. But with this increasingly sophisticated infrastructure comes a …

Digital preservation has turned into an active field of research. The most prominent
approaches today are migration and emulation; especially considering migration, a range of …

Traditionally, assessing risks applicable to records management has not been perceived as
a priority for managers. These risks can vary, ranging From minor human error or system …

This study emerged from an approach to government by the Australian Academy of the
Humanities which proposed the establishment of a national digital scholarly archive for …

The digital imaging of cultural and heritage objects has become commonplace as memory
institutions create digital surrogates and representation of their holdings, generally to …