Long-term preservation and permanent access: How to ensure the long-term reuse value of your digital assets

Abstract

DAM should focus not only on storage and high-quality retrieval of digital collections, but also on digital preservation. To ensure future access to our digital collections, three actions have to be dealt with: long-term storage, registration of metadata and development of tools for accessibility. Storage media have to be refreshed regularly to safeguard the bits and bytes, and stored digital objects have to be described carefully to enable future retrieval. Apart from the description of the objects themselves, we also have to describe the technical properties of the object. Software is becoming obsolete over the years, leaving objects inaccessible for future users. Preservation strategies, like migration and emulation, have to be developed to deal with this problem. This paper describes how digital preservation has been taken up by libraries and archives with a special focus on the e-Depot at the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB).

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