New Article: “Challenges and Opportunities in the Evolving Digital Preservation Landscape: Reflections from Portico”
The following article from Insights (a UKSG publication) was published online earlier today.
Title
Challenges and Opportunities In The Evolving Digital Preservation Landscape: Reflections From Portico
Authors
Kate Wittenberg
ITHAKA
Sarah Glasser
ITHAKA
Amy Kirchhoff
ITHAKA
Sheila Morrissey
ITHAKA
Stephanie Orphan
ITHAKA
Source
Insights, 31, 28
doi: 10.1629/uksg.421
Abstract
There has been tremendous growth in the amount of digital content created by libraries, publishers, cultural institutions and the general public. While there are great benefits to having content available in digital form, digital objects can be extremely short-lived unless proper attention is paid to preservation. Reflecting on our experience with the digital preservation service Portico, we provide background on Portico’s history and evolving practice of sustainable preservation of the digital artifacts of scholarly communications. We also provide an overview of the digital preservation landscape as we see it now, with some thoughts on current requirements for preservation, and thoughts on the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.
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Filed under: Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation, Scholarly Communications
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.