Long-term Preservation of Electronic Publications – The NEDLIB projectOverviewWhat is NEDLIB and why should we care?How does NEDLIB relate to DSEP?How does DSEP relate to OAIS?How DSEP relates to OAIS? (Gory details.)PowerPoint PresentationExpected duration of the projectHow did it turn out? (Part un.)How did it turn out? (Part duex.)How did it turn out? (Part trois.)Impression of paper22 April 2004 1Long-term Preservation of Electronic Publications – The NEDLIB projectTitia van der Werf-DavelaarSeptember 1999Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands22 April 2004 2Overview•What is NEDLIB and why should we care?•How does NEDLIB relate to DSEP?•How does DSEP relate to OAIS?•Expected duration of the project•Project outcomes22 April 2004 3What is NEDLIB and why should we care?•NEDLIB – Networked European Deposit Library–Eight national libraries–One national archive–Two ICT organizations–Three major publishers–Koninklijke Bibliotheek has lead•Develop common architectural framework•Basic tools for building deposit systems•Implementation vice theory•Opportunity for Jeff Rothenberg to demonstrate the feasibility of his ideas22 April 2004 4How does NEDLIB relate to DSEP?•DSEP – Deposit System for Electronic Publications•NEDLIB project will define overall DSEP•“… identify functional requirements that are common to all deposit libraries in order to arrive at a ‘generic’ high-level design.”•A common workflow to facilitate discussions and comparison of approaches22 April 2004 5How does DSEP relate to OAIS?A readable overview diagram.22 April 2004 6How DSEP relates to OAIS? (Gory details.)(Prepare to be blinded.)22 April 2004 7•OAIS modules:1 – only SIP2 – only AIP3 – deals with metadata4 – more limited5 – regulates everything6 – unique to DSEP•DLS modules:7 – delivery and capture8 – packaging and delivery22 April 2004 8Expected duration of the project•Experiment to take place during 1999 and 2000•Results of the experiment–Several reports detailing lessons learned–Software to implement DSEP workflow22 April 2004 9How did it turn out? (Part un.)•Home: http://www.kb.nl/coop/nedlib/•“An Experiment in Using Emulation to Preserve Digital Publications,” Jeff Rothenberg–“… The results of the initial iteration of the experiment described above indicate that this approach [software emulation of obsolete hardware] should work in principle, assuming that suitable emulators for obsolete computing platforms can be hosted on future platforms. …”22 April 2004 10How did it turn out? (Part duex.)•“Metadata for the Long Term Preservation of Electronic Publications,” Catherine Lupovici and Julien Massanes–Lists a proposed set of metadata identifiers and their relationship to Curl Exemplars in digital Archives (CEDARS) and National Library of Austria (?) (NLA)•Various other reports and presentations22 April 2004 11How did it turn out? (Part trois.)•NEDLIB Web Harvester–Visits a set of URLs and harvests files–Results stored in MySQL database•Collects static pages•Handles 97% of page types•Doesn’t handle things like image maps•Difficulty indexing images, sounds, “funny” files22 April 2004 12Impression of paper•Liked the fact that they were going to do something•Confused by the “two” languages–First half, English was not the writer’s first language–Last half, English was the writer’s first and it read like a direct lift from a proposal•Project left behind interesting software (NEDLIB harvester)•Unsure how the lessons learned were used by anyone.•NEDLIB home, last updated 11 March
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