Heroic measures: reflections on the possibility and purpose of digital preservation
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries
Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation
Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation
A Deposit for Digital Collections
ECDL '01 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Towards a Theory of Information Preservation
ECDL '01 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
"What is a good digital library?" - A quality model for digital libraries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Improving secure long-term archival of digitally signed documents
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Storage security and survivability
Challenges to long term digital preservation a glimpse of the Italian experience
DSP'09 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Digital Signal Processing
Metadata spaces: the concept and a case with REPOX
ICADL'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
UbiqLog: a generic mobile phone-based life-log framework
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Digital artifacts as legacy: exploring the lifespan and value of digital data
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information Resources Management Journal
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Well within our lifetime we can expect to see most information being created, stored and used digitally. Despite the growing importance of digital data, the wider community pays almost no attention to the problems of preserving this digital information for the future. Even within the archival and library communities most work on digital preservation has been theoretical, not practical, and highlights the problems rather than giving solutions. Physical libraries have to preserve information for long periods and this is no less true of their digital equivalents. This paper describes the preservation approach adopted in the Victorian Electronic Record Strategy (VERS) which is currently being trialed within the Victorian government, one of the states of Australia. We review the various preservation approaches that have been suggested and describe in detail encapsulation, the approach which underlies the VERS format. A key difference between the VERS project and previous digital preservation projects is the focus within VERS on the construction of actual systems to test and implement the proposed technology. VERS is not a theoretical study in preservation.