Evaluating Preservation Strategies for Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Digital preservation has turned into a pressing challenge for institutions having the obligation to preserve digital objects over years. A range of tools exist today to support the variety of preservation strategies such as migration or emulation. Yet, different preservation requirements across institutions and settings make the decision on which solution to implement very difficult. The Austrian National Library will have to preserve electronic theses and dissertations provided as PDF files and is thus investigating potential preservation solutions. The DELOS Digital Preservation Testbed is used to evaluate various alternatives with respect to specific requirements. It provides an approach to make informed and accountable decisions on which solution to implement in order to preserve digital objects for a given purpose. We analyse the performance of various preservation strategies with respect to the specified requirements for the preservation of master theses and present the resu...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: DELOS
• Authors: Stephan Strodl, Christoph Becker, Robert Neumayer, Andreas Rauber, Eleonora Nicchiarelli Bettelli, Max Kaiser, Hans Hofman, Heike Neuroth, Stefan Strathmann, Franca Debole, Giuseppe Amato
• Keywords: DELOS 2007, Digital Library, Digital Objects, Digital Preservation, Preservation Strategies