Finnish Digital Preservation Service for Cultural Heritage

Finnish Digital Preservation Service for Cultural Heritage. Mikko Tiainen. PASIG Presentation. March 12, 2015. [PDF]
Preservation aspects and focus of the Digital Preservation Service:

• Semantic preservation:
• Content knowledge and semantics
• Descriptive metadata
• Logical preservation
• Preservation planning
• Administrative & technical metadata
• File formats
• Preservation actions
•  Bit-level preservation
• Materials & replication management
• Storage device
• Storage media

They estimate the life cycle of the various components as:

• Hardware
• Hard disk storage: 5 years
• Tape drives & media types: 5 years
• Tape libraries: 10 years
• Software
• Commercial support at  least for 5 years
• Open source maintained and developed until replaced 

Development of a high quality digital preservation system is a continuous process. 

• Bit-level preservation
• Preservation planning and development of preservation actions
• Preserving the intelligibility
• Distributed locations

This requires support services, maintenance of specifications, and ongoing management.

 Digital Preservation Matters.