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German SHERPA/RoMEO upgraded

Published on 21.01.2010 in Community and Internationale Entwicklungen. 0 Comments

An upgrade of the German version of RoMEO – SHERPA/RoMEO deutsch – is now online.

The new German-language interface based on the English SHERPA/RoMEO database was developed within the framework of the project Open Access Policies. Up to now, users were able to obtain information about publishers’ standard policies with regard to Open Access and to search the database by journal title and publisher name. Through cooperation with the Electronic Journals Library (EZB), the database for journal information has been extended considerably and a search option for journal abbreviations has been introduced. Moreover, there are now links (PDFs) to information provided by publishers on copyright conditions and paid-access options. In addition to the already existing option allowing users to preselect publishers by RoMEO colour, there is now an alphabetical index of all listed publishers.

[http://open-access.net/de/austausch/news/news/anzeige/sherparomeo_deutsch_mit/, 17 December 2009]

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

Published on 11.01.2010 in Community and Internationale Entwicklungen. 0 Comments

Am 2. Dezember 2009 hat das Bundeskabinett die Errichtung einer Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek (DDB) gebilligt. Die Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz der Länder hatte ihr bereits auf ihrer Jahrestagung im Oktober 2009 zugestimmt.

Mit der DDB sollen die Datenbanken von über 30.000 Kultur- und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen in Deutschland vernetzt und durch spezielle Suchwerkzeuge erschlossen werden.

Die DDB wird in die Europäische Digitale Bibliothek Europeana integriert. Sie ist ein Verbund der nationalen digitalen Bibliotheken, zu denen auch die DDB gehört. Ihre Einrichtung hat der Rat der Europäischen Union auf Vorschlag der EU-Kommission bereits 2006 beschlossen. Das Zugangsportal zur Europeana wurde am 20. November 2008 vom Präsidenten der Europäischen Kommission José Manuel Barroso frei geschaltet.

Weitere Informationen

[http://www.bundesregierung.de/Webs/Breg/DE/Homepage/home.html, zugegriffen am 10. Dezember 2009]

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (Bibliothèque numérique allemande)

Published on 11.01.2010 in Community and Internationale Entwicklungen. 0 Comments

Le 2 décembre 2009 le cabinet de la conféderation a approuvé l’établissement d’une bibliothèque digitale allemande (DDB). La conférence des Premiers ministres (des Länder allemands) lui avait déjà donné son accord à l’occasion de son congrès annuel en Octobre 2009.

Le but de la DDB est de connecter et d’exploiter les bases de donnés de plus de 30.000 institutions culturels et scientifiques en Allemagne grâce à des instruments de recherches spéciaux.

La DDB sera intégrée dans Europeana, la bibliothèque numérique européenne. Celle-ci est une association des bibliothèques numériques nationales, y compris la DDB. Le portail d’accès de l’Europeana a été déverrouillé par le Président de la commission européenne José Manuel Barroso le 20 Novembre 2008.

Plus d’informations

[http://www.bundesregierung.de/Webs/Breg/DE/Homepage/home.html, accès au 10 décembre 2009]

DFG-Projekt: LuKII (LOCKSS-und-KOPAL-Infrastruktur-und-Interoperabilität)

Published on 10.12.2009 in Community, Internationale Entwicklungen and Langzeitarchivierung / Archivage de longue durée. 0 Comments

Scholarly information today is mainly born digital and is increasingly made available through digital means. This makes effective long term digital preservation urgent for researchers in every field. Scholars know this is important, but generally assume that others, especially libraries, will address the problem. No simple solution exists. Multiple backups are a help, but do not address problems of integrity or authenticity or usability and older backups on tape are particularly vulnerable to physical or magnetic decay. Serious research on this topic has gone on for a decade with valuable tools such as LOCKSS and KOPAL as a result, but far more research remains to do. The problem of long term digital archiving is not solved, but becomes more solvable as the research moves forward. This project sets up a network infrastructure that takes an active step toward preserving bitstream integrity while ensuring readability, and then tests the product with materials from German institutional repositories.

Specifically this project proposes interoperability between the open-source elements of two existing archiving systems (LOCKSS and KOPAL) in order to combine cost-effective bitstream preservation with an established tool for usability maintenance and format migration.

Based on these goals the chief elements of this project are:

  1. to establish a cost-effective LOCKSS network in Germany including infrastructure to provide ongoing technical support and management for LOCKSS and its variants (e.g. CLOCKSS);
  2. to conceptualize and implement interoperability between LOCKSS and KOPAL in order to combine cost-effective bitstream preservation with well-developed usability preservation tools;
  3. and to test the interoperability prototype by archiving data from German institutional repositories.

Kontakt
Prof. Michael Seadle PhD
Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
(Berlin School of Library and Information Science)
seadle@ibi.hu-berlin.de

[http://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de/forschung/digibib/forschung/projekte/LuKII,
10 December 2009]

A report on tool provision for digital preservation is now available

Published on 03.12.2009 in Community, Internationale Entwicklungen and Langzeitarchivierung / Archivage de longue durée. 0 Comments

File formats and information technology are continually evolving. In order to preserve your digital objects, you may need to perform preservation actions. Preservation action tools are software programs that act on a digital object to ensure its continued accessibility. To select the right tool, you need to know which tools are available.

Planets has wrapped a number of preservation action tools into the Planets framework.

The project has also conducted a survey of cultural heritage institutions and created an inventory of commonly used file formats and compiled a list of preservation action tools that exist to preserve them. The analysis has made it possible to identify gaps in provision.

During the analysis, it became clearer that the search for gaps in tool provision cannot be confined to availability of tools for the most occurring file formats. There are many specialized formats that need support from specialized preservation action tools, and research on this has been done through case studies.

The results of the analysis provide an important insight into the status of digital preservation and the status of digitization. More importantly, a regular analysis of the gaps in tool provision can be used to identify the need for new research and/or development of new tools. If a gap analysis shows that no tool for a specific preservation action exists, there is a gap in tool provision and a new tool should be developed.

The full Gap Analysis report can be found here: http://www.planets-project.eu/docs/reports/PA2D3gapanalysis.pdf

To comment or ask a question about Planets and the Gap Analysis, please e-mail us at: info@planets-project.eu