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Direct linkHoorens, Stijn; Rothenberg, Jeff – RAND Corporation, 2008
Digital objects are becoming a critical component of scholarly research, but stakeholders show an alarming lack of concern about preserving digital data accurately and sustainably; those charged with archiving information have not yet developed strategies that will enable future generations to build their knowledge on what has gone before. How…
Descriptors: Preservation, Archives, Information Technology, Electronic Publishing
Hoorens, Stijn; Rothenberg, Jeff; van Oranje-Nassau, Constantijn; van der Mandele, Martin; Levitt, Ruth – RAND Corporation, 2007
Storing and curating authentic academic literature and making it accessible for the long term has been a time-honoured task of national libraries. By guarding existing knowledge and facilitating its use to produce new insights, national and university libraries have formed an integral part of the research environment, complementing the roles of…
Descriptors: Preservation, Government Libraries, Research Libraries, Foreign Countries
Download full textCullen, Charles T.; Hirtle, Peter B.; Levy, David; Lynch, Clifford A.; Rothenberg, Jeff – 2000
On January 24, 2000, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) convened a group of experts from different domains of the information resources community to address the question, "What is an authentic digital object?" Five writers--an archivist, a digital library expert, a documentary editor and special collections…
Descriptors: Archives, Electronic Text, Information Industry, Information Sources
Hoorens, Stijn; Rothenberg, Jeff; van Orange, Constantijn; van der Mandele, Martijn; Levitt, Ruth – RAND Corporation, 2007
Storing and curating authentic academic literature and making it accessible for the long term has been a time-honoured task of national libraries. By guarding existing knowledge and facilitating its use to produce new insights, national and university libraries have formed an integral part of the research environment, complementing the roles of…
Descriptors: Preservation, Research Libraries, Foreign Countries, Research Reports
Rothenberg, Jeff – 1999
There is as yet no viable long-term strategy to ensure that digital information will be readable in the future. Digital documents are vulnerable to loss via the decay and obsolescence of the media on which they are stored, and they become inaccessible and unreadable when the software needed to interpret them, or the hardware on which that software…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Computer System Design, Information Storage
