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Why Digital Preservation Is Important For Everyone
Check out a short video about the basics of digital preservation.
Tools for a Preservation-Ready Web
Lead Partner: Old Dominion University, Department of Computer Science
Additional Partner: Los Alamos National Library Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team
This project seeks to integrate preservation capabilities into standard Web practices. The project assumes that the core technologies for creating a “preservation-ready” web are in place; what is needed is a concerted, high-profile effort to instantiate the technologies in simple protocols, methodologies and software.
Objectives:
- Promote the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) as a mechanism for discovering resources in the deep web
- Continue to explore the benefits of using the mod_oai Apache module to support both efficient discovery of updates and resources to support normal web crawling, as well as preparing "preservation-ready" resources for harvest
- Apply the OAI-PMH to a variety of new applications, including the creation of an Apache module that allows for the harvesting of events directly from the Apache logs themselves
More detailed project information can be found at the Project Web site
Highlights:
- Webcast: Memento: Time Travel for the Web
- Paper: Memento: Time Travel for the Web (2009)
- Webcast: Thinking Differently about Web Page Preservation
- Dissertation: Integrating Preservation Functions Into the Web Server (pdf, 3.83 Mb) (2008)
- Presentation: Tools for a Preservation-Ready Web (ppt, 1.43 Mb) (2008)
- Paper: A Quantitative Evaluation of Dissemination-Time Preservation Metadata (Proceedings of ECDL 2008) (pdf, 322 Kb)
- Paper: Site Design Impact on Robots: An Examination of Search Engine Crawler Behavior at Deep and Wide Websites (D-Lib Magazine, March/April 2008)
- Paper: Integrating Preservation Functions Into the Web Server (pdf, 4.4 Mb) (2008)
- Paper: Lazy preservation: Reconstructing Websites by Crawling the Crawlers (Proceedings of the Eighth ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, November 2006)
- Michael Nelson of the TPRW project is a digital preservation pioneer
