DIGITAL PRESERVATION LINKS
Julie C. Swierczek
These links were gathered in June 2015. This is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of links on the topic; I
included links based on my own research interests.
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DIGITIZATION
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Minimum Digitization Capture Recommendations ALCTS Preservation and Reformatting Section, June
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Digitisation checklist New South Wales government records digitization
DIGITAL ARCHIVES LINKS - GENERAL
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CHIN - Canadian Heritage Information Network
Curation Costs Exchange
Digital Archives - Center for Research Libraries
Digital Curation Centre
Digital Curation Exchange
Digital Library Federation
Digital Preservation & Curation - JISC
Digital Preservation Coalition
o Digital Preservation Coalition wiki
Digital Preservation Management Tools and Techniques
DigiPres Commons
International Internet Preservation Consortium
InterPARES - International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems
iRODS - Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System
Knowledge bank - National Archives of the Netherlands
Open Preservation Foundation (formerly Open Planets Foundation)
National Archives Applied Research
National Digital Stewardship Alliance
POWRR - Preserving (digital) Objects With Restricted Resources
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DIGITAL FORENSICS
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DFRWS - Digital Forensics Research Workshop
ForensicsWiki
Forensics workstation (AIMS project)
LinuxLEO - digital forensics with Linux
test corpora
o CFReDS Project
o Digital Corpora (incl. 2009 M57 Patents scenario)
o Digital Forensics Tool Testing Images
o ForGE - computer forensic test image generator
o Browse old files by format
DIGITAL ACCESSIONING WORKFLOWS
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Bentley Historical Library Processing Archival Collections manual: Digital Processing
BitCurator and Archival Workflows
blog post on real world workflows
Born Digital Workflows links at CURATECamp (google doc)
Gengenbach, Martin J. "'The Way We Do It Here': Mapping Digital Forensics Workflows in Collecting
Institutions." Master's Paper, August 2012. (PDF)
Getting to Know FRED: Introducing Workflows for Born-Digital Content
Kari Smith's blog post on her Digital Archivist's toolbox
Meister, Sam, and Alexandra Chassanoff. "Integrating Digital Forensics Techniques into Curatorial
Tasks: A Case Study". International Journal of Digital Curation. Vol. 9, Iss.2, 2014: 6-16.
MIT's Draft Digital Archives Transfer and Ingest Workflow (PDF)
POWRR blog post on 'daily life' with decision-making flowcharts
Princeton University Archives Born Digital Records Procedures
University of Utah Digital Preservation Decision Flowchart (PDF)
GUIDELINES/BEST PRACTICES
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Curation Reference Manual - DCC
Digital Curation Strategies and Procedures - Bentley Historical Library
Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections - CLIR (PDF)
Establishing a Digital Preservation Policy - JISC
Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
Formats for digital preservation - National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
of the Library of Congress (NDIIPP)
How Long Will Digital Storage Media Last? - NDIIPP (PDF)
Policy Development resources - Chris Prom, Practical e-records
SPEC Kit 329: Managing Born-Digital Special Collections and Archival Materials (August 2012)
Reducing scanned document file sizes - Texas A&M
Scanned document quality vs. attachment file size
Ten basic principles of Digital Preservation Repositories - CRL
REPORTS/WHITEPAPERS/PUBLICATIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHIES/JOURNALS
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AIMS - Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship (2009-2011)
Atlas of Digital Damages - and related Flickr group
Bergin, Meghan Banach. "Sabbatical Report: Summary of Survey Results on Digital Preservation
Practices at 148 Institutions."
Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories
Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography - Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Digital Preservation Decision Tree Model to Establish Whether a Digital Resource Should Be Preserved
Digital Preservation Plan Framework for Museums
Getty electronic publications
International Journal of Digital Curation
Practical Technology for Archives
Preserving.exe - list of readings on software preservation
Preserving Virtual Worlds final report
State Archives, Minnesota Historical Society. Electronic Records Management Guidelines. Version 5,
March 2012. (PDF)
METADATA AND VOCABULARIES AND XML
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Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe - Jenn Riley
Metadata Resources: Selected Reference Documents, Web Sites, and Readings - Steven J. Miller
(UWM)
Getty vocabularies
Linked Data
MODS
PREMIS
o PREMIS in METS toolbox
Protégé - open-source ontology editor
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials - Library of Congress
XForms for archives
Metacrap - Cory Doctorow
METADATA HARVESTING
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EXIFTool
EXIFToolGUI
EMET - image metadata extraction tool from ARTStor
Metadata Extraction Tool - National Library of New Zealand
VRA Panel Export-Import Tool
STANDARDS
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DRAMBORA (Digital Repository Audit Method Based On Risk Assessment)
o See also DRAMBORA interactive
Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems (CCSDS) publications
o CCSDS 650.0-M-2 Reference Model for an Open Archival information System (OAIS) (PDF)
(also ISO14721:2012)
 ISO14721:2012 - Space data and information transfer systems -- Open archival
information system (OAIS) -- Reference model
o CCSDS 651.0-M-1 Producer-Archive Interface Methodology Abstract Standard
(PAIMAS) (PDF)
o CCSDS 651.1-B-1 Producer-Archive Interface Specification (PAIS) (PDF)
o CCSDS 652.0-M-1 Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories (PDF) (also
ISO16363:2012)
 ISO16363:2012 - Space data and information transfer systems -- Audit and certification
of trustworthy digital repositories
o CCSDS 652.1-M-2 Requirements for Bodies Providing Audit and Certification of Candidate
Trustworthy Digital Repositories (PDF)
Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist
PROJECTS OF INTEREST
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ArchiveTeam
Bentley Historical Library's ArchivesSpace-Archivematica-DSpace workflow integration
Chronopolis digital preservation network
InSPECT - Investigating the Significant Properties of Electronic Content Over Time
LOCKSS - Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe
SCAPE - Scalable Preservation Environments
Sustaining Digital Scholarship initiative - UVa Digital Curation Services
SPRUCE Project - funded by JISC, ended November 2013
TAPER - Tufts Accessioning Program for Electronic Records
BLOGS
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Born-Digital Program at Stanford University Libraries
Digital Preservation Matters
futureArch - no longer updated; from the Bodleian
Practical e-records - Chris Prom (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
TRAINING
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DigCCurr
Exiftool tutorial series
CONFERENCES
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Archiving (ASIS&T)
iPRES
HARDWARE
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Write blockers
o UltraKit III
FRED
KryoFlux 5.25" floppy controller
FC5025 5.25" floppy controller
RETROCOMPUTING/VINTAGE COMPUTING
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Bitsavers
Daves Old Computers Disk/Software Image Archive (retro computing resources)
Vintage computing
Retro computing archive
Computer History Museum
o online exhibits
o Babbage engine
SOCIAL MEDIA ARCHIVING
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IFTTT recipes
PictureLife
SOFTWARE
DIRECTORIES OF SOFTWARE
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COPTR - Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry
Conversion Software Registry
Digital Preservation Tools (from OPF)
Ingest tools - Chris Prom, Practical e-records
IT for archivists - RIchard Lehane's tools, with more on GitHub
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) Partner Tools and
Services Inventory
POWRR tool grid - Preserving (digital) Objects With Restricted Resources
ACCESSIONING
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Duke Data Accessioner
o Also dataaccessioner.org for later versions, and on GitHub
CHECKSUM AND VERIFICATION TOOLS
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BagIt (see also our page on Bagger and BagIt)
o BagIt specification
o More BagIt information from the CDL
Checksum verification tools - blog post on Practical E-Records (June 2012)
DIGITAL FORENSICS TOOLS
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BitCurator
Bulk extractor - computer forensics tool
o description
Forensics Toolkit Imager (FTK) - FTK Imager is free
iredact.py - disk image redaction program
MagicISO - for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs
MountImage Pro - allows you to mount an .E01 disk image as a drive and navigate it as a directory
PII (Personally Identifiable Information) search software
o Cornell Spider - freeware PII searcher (although it has more false hits than Identity Finder)
o Identity Finder - for 'shredding' deleted content from storage media (writes over files sectors 3-7
times)
o BitCurator
Quick View Plus - Avantstar
TreeSize Professional - disk space management
WinDIrStat - disk usage statistics viewer
DIGITAL OBJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
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AXAEM - records life-cycle management system
Curator's Workbench - University of North Carolinablog post about the Curator's Workbench
Digital Preservation Software Platform - National Archives of Australia
o includes Xena, Digital Preservation Recorder, Checksum Checker, and Manifest Maker
Invenio (digital library)
OpenWMS - workflow management system for digital objects, developed at Rutgers University
ResCarta Toolkit
RODA - Repository of Authentic Digital Objects
SobekCM - digital content management system developed at the University of Florida
DISK ANALYZERS
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Cygnus Hex Editor
DiskAnalyzer Pro - commercial software for analyzing disk usage and finding duplicates
DiskFerret - commercial disk space analysis and monitoring software
EMAIL
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Aid4mail - commercial email migration software
Email Preservation Parser - Rockefeller Archive Center
Emailchemy - email conversion software
EMULATION
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MESS - Multi Emulator Super System
JSMESS (JavaScript port of MESS)
o Console Living Room
o Historical Software Collection
Olive Executable Archive
FORMAT CHARACTERIZATION AND FILE VALIDATION
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DROID - Digital Record Object Identification
FIDO - format identification for digital objects
FITS - File Information Tool Set
JHOVE - file validation and characterization
JHOVE2 - format-aware characterization
md5summer
PRONOM - file format registry
Siegfried - signature-based file format identification tool
TrID - file identifier
Unified Digital Format Registry
FORMAT-SPECIFIC TOOLS
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Audio/Video
o FFmpeg - converting audio and video
Excel
o Excel Archival Tool
Images
o Image Magick - image conversion
o Inkscape - graphics conversion
o Irfanview - batch processing images
PDF
o Ghostscript - PDF conversion
o Adobe batch conversion to PDF/A
METADATA AND XML
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Metadata Extraction Tool - National Library of New Zealand
XENA - Xml Electronic Normalising for Archives - National Archives of Australia
PLANNING TOOLS
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DMP Online: The DCC Data Management Planning Tool
DMP Tool - Data Management Plan Tool
WEB ARCHIVING
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NetArchiveSuite - web archiving software
TimeTravel at MementoWeb - for reconstructing archived websites
Wayback Machine - the Internet Archive's web archiving access portal
MISC.
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From the Page - transcription software for using volunteers to transcribe documents