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Last updated: 2008 04 25
Collection management
OCLC's Digital Archive Service Offers Long-term Storage for Digital Collections
OCLC is now providing a Digital Archive service for long-term storage of originals and master files from libraries’ digital collections.
The Digital Archive service is simplified to fit with a variety of digital library workflows and to keep the costs of safely storing these important files within the budget of a library’s digital program. The service will provide automated monitoring and reports on stored digital collections.
OCLC has been leading preservation efforts in the library community with digital archive services since 2001. The Digital Archive service builds on that experience. OCLC has integrated the service to fit typical workflows for building and managing digital collections.
"We’re moving the Digital Archive service from its theoretical roots into a mainstream production service with practical applications supporting the work that digital library programs must do today," said Greg Zick, Vice President, OCLC Digital Collection Services. "The Digital Archive Service gives libraries a clear solution for long-term protection of their digital data."
The service provides a secure storage environment for libraries to easily manage and monitor master files and digital originals. The importance of preserving master files grows as a library’s digital collections grow. Libraries need a workflow for capturing and managing master files that finds a balance between the acquisition of both digitized and born-digital content while not outpacing a library’s capability to manage these large files.
"The Montana Historical Society has chosen the Digital Archive service as the storage facility for our digital collections," said Molly Kruckenberg, Research Center Director. "The ease of adding materials through Connexion and the secure, managed storage make the Digital Archive service the ideal solution for our needs."
Connexion is the OCLC tool that allows catalogers to perform original and copy cataloging with WorldCat, the world’s most comprehensive bibliographic database.
The Digital Archive service is a specially designed system in a controlled operating environment dedicated to the ongoing managed storage of digital content. OCLC has developed specific systems processes and procedures for the service tuned to the management of data for the long term.
From the time content arrives, the Digital Archive systems begin inspecting it to ensure continuity. OCLC systems perform quality checks and record the results in a "health record" for each file. Automated systems revisit these quality checks periodically so libraries receive up-to-date reports on the health of the collection. OCLC provides monthly updated information for all collections on the personal archive report portal.
For users of CONTENTdm, OCLC’s digital collection management software for libraries and other cultural heritage institutions, the Digital Archive service is an optional capability integrated with various workflows for building collections. Master files are secured for ingest to the Digital Archive service using the CONTENTdm Acquisition Station, the Connexion digital import capability and the Web Harvesting service.
For users of other content management systems, the Digital Archive service provides a low-overhead mechanism for safely storing master files.
Libraries or other cultural heritage institutions interested in more information about the OCLC Digital Archive Service should contact Taylor Surface, taylor_surface@oclc.org.
Last updated: 2008 04 25
Collection management
CONTENTdm Featured Collections: April 2008
This month, three collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the CONTENTdm Web site.
The featured collections for April are The James Whitcomb Riley Recordings, The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection and Picturing the New World: The Hand-Colored De Bry Engravings of 1590.
Included in the collection information below is a link to each organization’s record in the OCLC WorldCat Registry. OCLC’s WorldCat Registry allows libraries worldwide to manage and organize their data for vendors and third parties by creating and maintaining a comprehensive institutional profile in a single, Web-accessible location.
James Whitcomb Riley Recordings http://www.imcpl.org/resources/digitallibrary/jameswhitcombriley.html
OCLC WorldCat Registry record (Indianapolis Marion County Public Library) - http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/10541
Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley reads 17 of his poems and stories recorded by the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1912. These recordings have never been published and are now available to the public for the first time
The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection
http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/jfabc
OCLC WorldCat Registry record (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) - http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/50898
The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection includes close to 5,000 artists' books, multiples, video and audio recordings, periodicals, digital works, reference books, ephemera, exhibition catalogs and examples of experimental art practices, all created over the last four decades by artists of local, national and international significance.
Picturing the New World: The Hand-Colored De Bry Engravings of 1590 http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/debry/
OCLC WorldCat Registry record (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/2147
Theodore De Bry's engravings of North America provided many Europeans with their first glimpse of the New World. De Bry's illustrated edition of A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, containing engravings that were based on the watercolors of John White, was published in 1590. The images shown on this site are from a rare hand-colored edition of the book in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
These are just a few of the many extraordinary digital collections created by CONTENTdm users.
To explore more collections, visit: http://www.contentdm.com/customers/index.html
Last updated: 2008 04 07
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