Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification (TRAC): Criteria and Checklist. Robin Dale, et al. CRL. March 9, 2007.
TRAC is the revised and expanded version of the Audit Checklist originally developed by RLG-NARA. The 94 page report provides a very complete method for checking and certifying long-term repositories. It can also be used for planning and guiding the development of repositories. The document looks at Organizational Infrastructure, Digital Object Management, and Technologies, Technical Infrastructure, & Security, and provides a checklist of criteria for measuring the trustworthiness of repositories. Another link to the site.
e-Journals: Archiving and Preservation. Briefing Paper. JISC. March 2007.
The traditional model of publishers supplying content and libraries preserving content does not work well with digital materials. Licensing agreements do not guarantee permanent access to materials. But the e-journal trend is increasing at a rapid rate. Many are searching for the solution. The terms ‘perpetual access’, ‘archiving’, and ‘long-term preservation’ are often used interchangeably. Perpetual access is usually used with e-journal licenses clauses to assure that access will be continued regardless of events. Archiving describes the management processes of e-journals. Long-term preservation refers to the processes to ensure the content remains accessible in the future, regardless of any technical or organizational changes. There needs to be multiple options and strategies for preserving e-journals, including coordinated overlap. There are promising developments evolving, but the solutions must include libraries, publishers, and archiving services.
Iron Mountain launches active archiving for email. Computer Technology Review. March 20, 2007.
Iron Mountain has introduced an Active Archiving Service for email. This is a single solution which includes management, archiving, legal discovery, continuity and disaster recovery. Most legal discovery processes now include email. The new federal rules make an email archive critical. It is integrated with Outlook and allows users full access to emails and the ability to restore individual messages. The cost starts at $6 per user per month.
Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums. Mary W. Elings, Günter Waibel. First Monday. 5 March 2007.
The cultural heritage community has a large pool of digital resources for teaching, research and learning. A big challenge is integrating digital content from libraries, archives and museums which use different strategies for caring for their materials. Applying data content standards by material type rather than the organization could make the data more usable within the entire community. Two schema used are Visual Resources Association (VRA) Core and the Categories for the Descriptions of Works of Art (CDWA). The article lists the elements of metadata standards, and the relationship between them and museums, libraries and archives. There is a call among archives to process collections more efficiently so they achieve control over all their holdings. The successful use of digital materials in libraries, museums, and archives revolves around the ability to describe similar materials in different institutions.
Microsoft Announces HD Photo, a New Imaging File Format With Advanced Features for Today’s Digital Photographers. Press release. March 8, 2007.
Microsoft announced a new file format for that offers higher image quality, greater preservation of data, and advanced features. HD offers both lossless and lossy image compression. When compressed it has twice the efficiency of JPEG, with fewer artifacts. It preserves the entire original image. They also released a plug-in for Photoshop. [See Photoshop gets HD Photo support.]
Dell to ship PCs with 1TB drives. Chris Mellor. Techworld. March 16, 2007.
Dell will ship computers with Hitachi 1 TB drives, targeting users who wish to store large amounts of data. The computer can handle up to 4 TB. The drives use perpendicular recording. The 1TB drive is priced at $540. Dell is also introducing a 'video time capsule service' where users can upload videos to a site where Dell will store them for a claimed 50 years.
Blu-ray Aims to Oust DVDs Within Three Years. March 15, 2007.
The Blu-ray disc association has said it aims to replace the DVD in three years. The Blu-ray disc holds 5 times as much as a DVD. While there is still uncertainty over which format will gain control of the market, there is movement away from the DVD format.
A Digital Life. Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell. Scientific American. February 18, 2007.
New systems may allow people to record everything they see and hear--and even things they cannot sense--and to store all these data in a personal digital archive. The MyLifeBits project has provided the tools to create a person’s lifelong digital archive. Technological advances may make this easier but there are challenges, particularly with privacy rights and restrictions. They believe digital memories will yield benefits in many areas.
Hammer Storage Pounds Out 'Disruptive' 1TB Appliance. Chris Preimesberger. eWeek. March 22, 2007.
Hammer Storage has introduced Myshare, a new plug and play storage device with 1TB for $499. It can be used on a network, and the content can be made available through a web application, including selective access to folders. The content can also be mirrored, secured, and it allows multiple user and group permissions.
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