Digital disaster - are you prepared?

1. Digitisation

1.1 General:

Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant, Introduction to imaging: issues in constructing an image database. Santa Monica, Calif.: Getty Art History Information Program, 1995.

Anne R. Kenney and Stephen Chapman, Digital imaging for libraries and archives. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library, Department of Preservation and Conservation, June 1996.

Hartmut Weber and Marianne Dörr, Digitisation as a method of preservation? Final report of a working group of the Deutsche Forchungsgemeinschaft (German Research Association). Amsterdam: European Commission on Preservation and Access, 1997.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub69.html

Susan Jephcott, 'Why digitise? Principles in planning and managing a successful digitisation project.' New Review of Academic Librarianship, 4, 1998, pp. 39-52.

Guidelines for digital imaging: papers given at the Joint National Preservation Office and Research Libraries Group Preservation Conference in Warwick, 28th - 30th September 1998. London: National Preservation Office, 1998.
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/

Anne R. Kenney, 'Mainstreaming digitization into the mission of cultural repositories.' In: Collections, content, and the Web. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2000, pp. 4-17.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub88abst.html

Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger, Moving theory into practice: digital imaging for libraries and archives. Mountain View, Calif.: Research Libraries Group, 2000.

1.2 Selection:

Ricky Erway, ed., Selecting library and archive collections for digital reformatting: proceedings from an RLG Symposium held November 5-6, 1995 in Washington, DC. Mountain View, Calif.: Research Libraries Group, 1996.

Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell, Jan Merrill-Oldham, Selecting research collections for digitization. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub74.html

Seamus Ross, 'Strategies for selecting resources for digitization: Source-Orientated, User-Driven, Asset-Aware Model (SOUDAAM).' In: Terry Coppock, ed., Making information available in digital format: perspectives from practitioners. Edinburgh: The Stationery Office, 1999, pp. 5-27.

1.3 Textual resources:

Peter Robinson, The digitization of primary textual resources. Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, 1993.

Peter Robinson, The transcription of primary textual sources using SGML. Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, 1994.

1.4 AHDS Guides to Good Practice:

Arts and Humanities Data Service, Creating a viable scholarly data resource. London: AHDS, ca. 1998.
http://ahds.ac.uk/deposit/viable.html

Sean Townsend, Cressida Chappell and Oscar Struijvé, Digitising history: a guide to creating digital resources from historical documents. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1999.
http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/index.html

Alan Morrison, Michael Popham and Karen Wikander, Creating and documenting electronic texts: a guide to good practice. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2000 (forthcoming).
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/

Catherine Grout, et al., Creating digital resources for the visual arts: standards and good practice. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2000 (forthcoming).
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide/contents.html

1.5 Metadata:

RLG Working Group on Preservation Issues of Metadata, Final report. Mountain View, Calif.: Research Libraries Group, 1998.
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/presmeta.html

Bernard J. Hurley, John Price-Wilkin, Merrilee Proffitt and Howard Besser, The Making of America II Testbed Project: a digital library service model. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub87abst.html

2. Digital preservation

2.1 General:

Don Waters and John Garrett, eds., Preserving digital information, report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information. Washington, D.C.: Commission on Preservation and Access, 1996.
http://www.rlg.org/ArchTF/

Margaret Hedstrom, 'Digital preservation: a time bomb for digital libraries.' Computers and the Humanities, 31 (3), 1997, pp. 189-202.

Deanna Marcum, 'A moral and legal obligation: preservation in the digital age.' International Information & Library Review, 29 (3/4), 1997, pp. 357-365.

Neil Beagrie and Daniel Greenstein, A strategic policy framework for creating and preserving digital collections. London: South Bank University, Library Information Technology Centre, 1998.
http://ahds.ac.uk/manage/framework.htm

Margaret Hedstrom and Sheon Montgomery, Digital preservation needs and requirements in RLG member institutions: a study commissioned by the Research Libraries Group. Mountain View, Calif.: Research Libraries Group, December 1998.
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html

Jeff Rothenberg, Avoiding technological quicksand: finding a viable technical foundation for digital preservation. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub77.html

David Bearman, 'Reality and chimeras in the preservation of electronic records.' D-Lib Magazine, 5 (4), April 1999.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april99/bearman/04bearman.html

Seamus Ross, Changing trains at Wigan: digital preservation and the future of scholarship. The JISC/NPO Digital Preservation Strategy Workshop, University of Warwick, 3-4 March 1999.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/OTHER/SRoss.htm

Mary Feeney, ed., Digital culture: maximising the nation's investment. London: National Preservation Office, 1999.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/other/jisc-npo-dig/

2.2 Metadata:

Michael Day, Metadata for preservation. Cedars project document AIW01. Bath: UKOLN, UK Office for Library and Information Networking, 1998.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cedars/AIW01.html

3. Disaster management

Seamus Ross and Ann Gow, Digital archaeology: rescuing neglected and damaged data resources. London: South Bank University, Library Information Technology Centre, February 1999.
http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Projects/BrLibrary/

4. Bibliography

Michael Day, Preservation of electronic information: a bibliography. Bath: UKOLN, UK Office for Library and Information Networking.
http://homes.ukoln.ac.uk/~lismd/preservation.html