Digital Preservation Links
There are many excellent Internet resources dealing with digital preservation. These are a selection recommended by the National Archives of Australia digital preservation team.
National Archives of Australia
- Digital preservation brochure - explains NAA software, philosophy and systems.
- Digital preservation Green Paper - our foundation document.
Cornell University
- Digital preservation tutorial - a detailed and eclectic look at many facets of digital preservation.
The Library of Congress
The United States Library of Congress has an excellent resource for evaluating file formats for digital preservation.
The United States Library of Congress digital preservation site is also worth reading.
Software
- Xena - Xena is an acronym - XML Electronic Normalising for Archives. The National Archives of Australia developed Xena to assist in the long term preservation of digital records via conversion to standards based, open formats.
- DSpace - Originally developed by Hewlett Packard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace is now open source software designed to preserve digital research material.
- DROID - The UK National Archives has developed their Digital Record Object Identification tool (DROID) and released it via sourceforge.net.
- JHOVE - Harvard's file format identifier.
