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Digital Preservation:
Setting the Course for a Decade
of Change
Neil Beagrie
British Library
Bibliotheque royale de Belgique
November 2007
Focus of this lecture
• Trends: past (paper)→ current (hybrid) →
future (more paper + much more digital)
• Licensed e-journals
• e-science / e-research
• e-special collections and personal archives
• European Initiatives
• Conclusions
Trends
Predicted Growth of Serials Publications
(after EPS for e-legal deposit)
16,000
14,000
All serials
(print + e-)
12,000
10,000
8,000
6,000
Dual
form
4,000
e-only
serials
2,000
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Computer Processing Power and Storage
$/MB
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
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Growth of Scientific Data and Data Curation
• In next 5 years e-Science will produce more data than
has been collected in the whole of human history
• Data growth – Protein Data Bank (1972- 07/2005)
e-Journals
and preservation
Archiving E- Publications
• 2006 ARL/CLIR study E-Journal Archiving
Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the
Landscape available from
<http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub138abst.html>
• 2003/4 JISC e-journal archiving study by
Maggie Jones available from:
<http:// www. jisc. ac. uk/ index. cfm? name= project_epub_
archiving>
Issues Identified
• Few journals are solely in digital form at this
stage but parallel print/ e- access can only be
regarded either as interim or partial equivalents
• Perpetual access and archiving concerns
• What guarantees do libraries have when they
licence access to digital material they don’t own
(and it is served from outside national
boundaries)?
• Concerns about continued access following
termination of a licence are a major inhibiting
factor for libraries wishing to move to e- only
access
Emerging Services
• Publishers negotiating dark archives for their
back files (eg Elsevier)
• E-legal deposit laws in several countries and
national libraries establishing e-journal archiving
programs (eg BL, KB, DB);
• Third-party and consortial services (eg Portico,
LOCKSS,OCLC digital archive);
• Research Funders creating open-access
archives of funded research articles (eg NIH,
Wellcome Trust)
Principles?
I suggest we need to identify some core principles and
aims for funders/publishers/customers:
• Support diversity of solutions/services - why?
• State of knowledge and different approaches adopted: risks in
single preservation or business model approach
• Diversity of content included in different services: risks from gaps in
content coverage
• Support multi-node and multi-national instances
–why?
• not just backup/recovery – long-term geographical/political/cultural
risks need to be addressed
• Scholarly communication is international and intellectual
capital/content/publishing of e-journals is international
• Support professional “trusted” preservation
repositories and services
e-Research
and preservation
(UK Science and Innovation Investment
Framework 2004 – 2014)
Information Infrastructure
• 2.23 The growing UK research base must have ready
and efficient access to information of all kinds – such as
experimental data sets, journals, theses, conference
proceedings and patents….
• 2.24 It is clear that the research community needs
access to information mechanisms which: systematically
collect, preserve and make available digital
information;….
• 2.25 The Government [via DTI] will therefore work with
interested funders and stakeholders to consider the
national e-infrastructure (hardware, networks,
communications technology) necessary to deliver an
effective system.
Preservation & Curation WG
• There will be dramatic growth in digital research
data and publications over the next decade
• Requirement to transform information provision so
that UK researchers can benefit from the new
research opportunities it will create
• There are major challenges in the preservation and
curation of digital information
• Where disciplinary data centres and services exist
they represent approx 1.4-1.5% of total research
expenditure
• Outlined preservation components of infrastructure
Libraries, e-research, and preservation
Some issues to consider:
• Different staffing/support structures for
publications/data
• Disciplinary differences in e-research
• “80:20 rule” and implications for cataloguing
or digital preservation
Digital Special Collections
and preservation
British Library – Personal Archives
• Relevant (digital) special collections in BL:
– Literary papers and correspondence
– History of science
– Web-archiving (blogs)
– Oral history
• “Digital Lives” research theme
– Synergies between different projects and
collecting areas: inter-action with digital
preservation or access research
Literary letters
New York Times Essay 4 September 2005
Web-archiving - blogs
POLITICS: web-archiving
Digital Lives Research Project
• Partners: British Library, UCL(SLAIS), Bristol (IT and Law).
• Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council from Sept 07March 09
• Website and blog www.bl.uk/digital-lives
Digital Lives: Preservation Challenges
• Digital memory over a human lifetime and
beyond for individuals
• Challenges–
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Software and hardware obsolescence
Media life and data loss
Ephemeral data eg web-pages, email
Dispersal – multiple email/storage/publishing systems
More pro-active preservation strategies needed
• Libraries need to engage in research for future
digital special collections
European Initiatives
• Libraries: e-depot (KB); Kopal (DB and
partners); DOM (British Library)
• Archives: PRONOM and Digital Archive (TNA);
Swiss National Archives; Dutch National Archive
• EU FP7 – PLANETS; CASPAR; Digital
Preservation Europe; Alliance Permanent
Access to Records of Science.
• Europe leading the world –currently ahead of US
and emerging economies? – but see iPRES
2008…
Conclusions
Evolution or Revolution?
• Evolution
– Print/Digital inter-dependencies – collective print storage and
digitisation
– Ongoing care of existing collections - lifecycle approaches to
collection care and digital preservation
• Revolution
– New digital preservation networks and services
• Professional networks eg Digital Preservation Coalition cross
professional boundaries linking archives/libraries/data centres
(national developments + international?)
• New types of service and organisations eg File Format Registries,
LOCKSS, PORTICO
– New (or more significance for) Digital Objects – e-journals, eresearch, e-special collections
– Acceleration of Scale and Automation for print and digital
– Reaching “tipping points” in print/digital mix over next decade
Future of Preservation
Digital will begin to dominate