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Title: Al Cornish, cornishwsu'edu


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Preserving Access to Multimedia Collections

• Al Cornish, cornish_at_wsu.edu
• Systems Librarian
• Washington State University Libraries

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Preservation example Early Washington Maps
Collection
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Preservation example Early Washington Maps
Collection

• Bit preservation of Master TIFF files
• Online storage (RAID array, with scheduled
  backups)
• Optical media storage (CD-R, DVD-R)
• Considering outsourcing options

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Preservation support Networking

• The three contributing Early Washington Maps
  collection libraries (University of Washington,
  Washington State University, Tacoma Public
  Library) are actively working with the National
  Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA, URL
  http//www.ngda.org/) to support collection
  preservation.

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Preservation support Networking

• The National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA) is
  one of eight projects funded through the National
  Digital Information Infrastructure and
  Preservation Program (NDIIPP, URL
  http//www.digitalpreservation.gov/).
• The NGDA host institutions are Stanford
  University and the University of California-Santa
  Barbara.

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Preservation support Networking

• Early Washington Maps content will be contributed
  to the NGDA repository.
• Some issues to be resolved
• NGDA will develop technical specifications for
  content.
• Agreements between host and contributing
  institutions.

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Preservation support - Software

• Example OCLC/DiMeMa CONTENTdms Full Resolution
  capability
• Assists with the storage and archiving of full
  resolution files.
• Formats supported include TIFF and MrSID
  JPEG2000 support also available in CONTENTdm.

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The Preservation Task

• Preservation is a collection management, or
  digital life cycle management, activity with a
  technology component but also associated policies
  and procedures. Mackenzie Smith, Exploring
  Variety in Digital Collections, Library Trends,
  Summer 2005

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Preservation example WSU Oral History Project

• Public web site using CONTENTdm (URL
  http//www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/oralhistoryproject/)
• Content includes described, streamed audio files
  in RealAudio format use of SMIL technology to
  create synchronized audio/transcript display
• WAV format files serve as the preservation master

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