'Your Scholarship. Our World. Preserving the Long Tail' by Vicky Reich
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The document discusses the challenges and importance of preserving scholarly content through initiatives like the LOCKSS program, which utilizes open-source software for preservation. It highlights the threats to content preservation, including obsolescence and economic factors, and the collaborative efforts required to keep digital records safe. Furthermore, it outlines the various formats and the technical architecture that supports ongoing preservation and access to scholarly communications.
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- 1. Your Scholarship. Our World. Preserving The Long Tail Victoria Reich, Executive Director LOCKSS Program Stanford University Libraries http://www.lockss.org/ 1September 2015
- 2. Content Is Web-based Web size: 1200 PB Internet Archive: 9 PB Brewster Kahle Founder and Director Internet Archive CONTENT IN CONTEXT Scholarly communication is: author’s words, data, software, communication, identity, related works, etc. 2
- 3. 50% Preserved? • 2010 ARL median research library receives ~80K serials • Keepers Registry reports 28.5K preserved; 10K in progress – Not adjusted for risk – Not adjusted for difficulty and cost 3
- 4. Biggest Threat to Content? • Obsolescence and/or failure – Formats – Media, – Hardware, – Software • Economic – national, organizational • Natural disasters • Humans 4
- 5. Reality The rate of loss to future researchers from “never preserved” will vastly exceed that from all other causes. Dr. David S. H. Rosenthal http://blog.dshr.org/2014/12/talk-at-fall-cni.html 5
- 6. Philosophy Preservation is an active community effort LOTS OF COPIES KEEP STUFF SAFE LOTS OF COMMUNITIES KEEP STUFF SAFE 6
- 7. The LOCKSS Program • Communities use LOCKSS open source software to preserve & access their scholarly record • LOCKSS staff provide services and software 7
- 9. Preservation Architecture • Ingest • Preservation • Dissemination • Management 9
- 10. Formats Preserved application/eps application/epub+zip application/javascript application/msword application/octet-stream application/powerpoint application/pdf application/ postscript application/rss+xml application/rtf application/vnd.fdf application/ vnd.ms-excel application/vnd.ms-powerpoint application/vnd.ms-word application/vnd.openxmlformats officedocument.wordprocessingml.document application/vnd.rn-realmedia application/wordperfect5.1 application/xhtml+xml application/x-javascript application/xml application/x-msexcel application/x-research-info-systems application/x-troff application/x-zip-compressed application/zip audio/mpeg audio/x-mp3 audio/x-pn-realaudio chemical/x-mdl-molfile image/bmp image/ gif image/jpeg image/pjpeg image/png image/svg+xml image/tiff image/ vnd.microsoft.icon image/x-icon text/css text/html text/javascript text/plain text/rtf text/x-bibtex text/x-js text/xml video/avi video/mp4 video/mp4v-es video/mpeg video/quicktime video/x-msvideo video/x-ms-wmv • LOCKSS software migrates formats as needed 10
- 11. Automated Cooperative Preservation Identify and preserve authoritative version
- 12. TRAC/ISO16363 Audit • 1st Ever Perfect Score for Technologies, Technical Infrastructure, Security • Equaled previous over all highest score (Scholars Portal) • Documentation is public • Linked from dshr.blog.org • Introduction • TRAC Audit: Process - http://blog.dshr.org/2014/08/trac-audit-process.html • TRAC Audit: Lessons - http://blog.dshr.org/2014/08/trac-audit-lessons.html • TRAC Audit: Do-It-Yourself Demos - http://blog.dshr.org/2014/08/trac-audit-do-it-yourself-demos.html 12
- 13. Many LOCKSS Networks • 1000’s of publishers – Subscription, open access, etc. • Ingest techniques – OAI/PMH, web crawling, file transfer, API, etc. • Preserved content types – Journals, books, databases, government documents, thesis and dissertations, image collections… • Each with an organization & business model • Each with an appropriate access policy 13
- 17. U.S. Government Documents 17 James Jacobs, Stanford
- 20. 5 Universities / 3 countries 20 Master and Ph.D. theses Academic publications Research data
- 22. PKP Private LOCKSS Network 22
- 23. Access From A LOCKSS Box 23
- 24. When The Publisher Is Not Available 24
- 25. Appreciation The LOCKSS Program’s simple and flexible technical architecture is particularly well suited to the rapidly evolving landscape of e-journal publishing and scholarly practice. Bernie Reilly, President Council for Research Libraries, 2014 25
- 26. Research & Development • Internet Archive – IMLS to build web preservation APIs – Web infrastructure and collection building • Mellon Foundation – Preserving the future web – Emulation as a preservation strategy • IIPC – Preservation and access (Memento, INA’s LAP) • Library of Congress – Economics of long term storage • Force 11 – Scholarly communication • University of California Santa Cruz – Storage technologies, Advise PhD students • 4C – Preservation Costs 26
- 27. Thank you Looking forward to the conversation! 27