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Technical Aspects of Sustainable Digital Archives

Authors:
Cheng-Hung Li
Wei-Chun Chung
Shiang-An Wang
Chia-Hao Lee
Chi-Wen Fann
Lee-Hom Lin
Jan-Ming Ho

Keywords: digital archive; digital preservation; long-term preservation.

Abstract:
In Taiwan, the National Digital Archives Program was initiated in 2002. It was subsequently integrated with the National Science and Technology Program for E-Learning into the Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP) on January 1, 2008. The program has created hundreds of professional digital archives, websites, and databases to store and manage these valuable national cultural and ecological artifacts. These websites and databases are open to the public. TELDAP will celebrate its 10-year anniversary and recess at the end of 2012. In this paper, we will present efforts made by the Digital Archive Architecture Laboratory, Academia Sinica, for preserving and maintaining accessibility of contents through previously developed systems. We will primarily focus on the reliability of the archive system and the promotion of its diverse contents. Our long-term preservation procedure includes both data and software. In the area of preservation, we recommend digitization guidelines for data formats so that these valuable artifacts can be digitized at a level that is equivalent to state-of-the-art display quality. We will also provide format conversion services to convert digital objects to the latest common open format. The digital archive developed and proposed 9 standard operating procedures for each stage in the development of the digital archive system. In practice of software maintainability, we will preserve the design documents at each stage of development. Currently, we are developing a management framework on the basis of distributed virtualization technology to host digital archive systems so that management cost can be minimized while systems can remain operational.

Pages: 82 to 85

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: October 21, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-228-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 21, 2012 to October 26, 2012