VINE: Volume 34 Issue 1

From rescue to long‐term maintenance: preservation as a core function in the management of digital assets

Maria Inês Cordeiro

Digital preservation is currently a major concern for the information management, technological and scientific communities in all domains. It is also critical at the…

Significant property: digital preservation at the British Library

Deborah Woodyard

As national library, the British Library (BL) has the ethical and legal responsibility to acquire, preserve and make available all printed material published in the UK. In recent…

Digital preservation in practice: the e‐Depot at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek

Erik Oltmans, Hilde van Wijngaarden

Digital publishing is causing publishers, research institutions and libraries to develop new policies, new business models and new infrastructures and techniques. A major problem…

Developing a trusted digital repository: the OCLC experience

Dawn Lawson, Phyllis B. Spies

Describes the background, design and working of a set of tools to catalogue and ingest (import) objects into a digital archive. The toolset had their origin in a collaboration…

Developing a digital preservation strategy at Edinburgh University Library

Najla Semple

Digital preservation poses an increasing cause for concern in UK higher education institutions. This paper provides a general overview of the development of a digital preservation…

Building a digital preservation archive: tales from the front

Priscilla Caplan

This article describes the evolution of the design of the FCLA digital archive, a preservation repository under development for the libraries of the public universities of…

Note from the Editor

Note from the publisher

John Peters