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Foreword1 |
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Preface |
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Contents |
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Part I Methodology |
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1 Long-Term Preservation of Digital Documents |
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1.1 Blessing and Curse of Digital Media |
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1.2 Terms, Concepts, and Challenges |
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1.3 Preserving Character Streams |
24 |
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1.4 Technical Approaches to Long-Term Preservation |
26 |
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1.5 Legal and Social Concerns |
33 |
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2 OAIS and DSEP Organizational Models |
35 |
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2.1 The OAIS Reference Model |
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2.2 The DSEP Process Model |
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3 Migration |
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3.1 Migration: Definition and Goals |
45 |
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3.2 Migration in Long-Term Preservation |
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3.3 Archiving Processes of the Migration Approach |
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3.4 Strengths andWeaknesses of the Migration Approach |
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4 Emulation |
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4.1 Emulation: Notions and Goals |
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4.2 Emulation as a Means for Long-Term Preservation |
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4.3 Preservation Processes in Emulation Approaches |
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4.4 Chances and Risks of Emulation |
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5 Document Markup |
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5.1 Introductory Example |
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5.2 Markup Variants |
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5.3 Exploiting Markup for Long-Term Preservation |
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5.4 Persistence is a Virtue |
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6 Standard Markup Languages |
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6.1 Standards for Syntactic Document Markup |
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6.2 Standards for Semantic Document Markup |
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6.3 Vision: The SemanticWeb |
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7 Discussion |
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7.1 Why DoWe Need to Act NOW? |
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7.2 What do We Know Already, What Remains to Be Done? |
139 |
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7.3 Facing Reality |
142 |
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7.4 A Combined Approach |
144 |
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Part II Recent Preservation Initiatives |
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8 Markup: Current Research and Development |
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8.1 The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative |
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8.2 The Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard |
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8.3 The Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) |
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8.4 The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) |
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8.5 The PANDORA Project |
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9 Migration: Current Research and Development |
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9.1 Migration in VERS-Compliant Recordkeeping Systems |
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9.2 Preserving the Whole |
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9.3 Risk Management of Digital Information |
195 |
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9.4 Database Migration |
202 |
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10 Emulation: Current Research and Development |
219 |
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10.1 An Emulation Experiment by Jeff Rothenberg |
219 |
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10.2 The Universal Virtual Computer (UVC) |
225 |
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11 Software Systems for Archiving: An Assessment Methodology and Market Survey |
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11.1 Introduction |
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11.2 Development of Criteria |
236 |
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11.3 Criteria Catalog |
242 |
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11.4 General Assessment of Current Archiving Systems |
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11.5 Discussion |
249 |
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11.6 Product Examples |
250 |
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11.7 Rated Products |
251 |
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References |
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Index |
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