Preserving the Scholarly Side of the Web
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2007-07-12
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This paper presents results of a case study that
addresses many issues surrounding the difficult task of
preservation in a digital library. We focus on a subset
of these issues as they apply to the preservation of
scholarly articles encoded in current web standards.
We also describe the two common preservation mechanisms,
emulation and migration, as well as our
selection of the latter for our particular case. Finally,
we compare two approaches to migration, automatic
and manual, and discuss their strengths and weaknesses
in our context. We show that consistent use of
open standards leads to more efficient migration processes
and issue a “call to arms” to the digital preservation
community to ensure that scholarly material
currently on the web can be preserved for future
generations.
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LA WEB 2006, JoDI