Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Digitale Bibliotheken

                                                                                                                                                                           

 Project Description (Projektbeschreibung):                                                

Scholarly information today is mainly born digital and is increasingly made available through digital means. This makes effective long term digital preservation urgent for researchers in every field. Scholars know this is important, but generally assume that others, especially libraries, will address the problem. No simple solution exists. Multiple backups are a help, but do not address problems of integrity or authenticity or usability and older backups on tape are particularly vulnerable to physical or magnetic decay. Serious research on this topic has gone on for a decade with valuable tools such as LOCKSS and KOPAL as a result, but far more research remains to do. The problem of long term digital archiving is not solved, but becomes more solvable as the research moves forward. This project sets up a network infrastructure that takes an active step toward preserving bitstream integrity while ensuring readability, and then tests the product with materials from German institutional repositories.

Specifically this project proposes interoperability between the open-source elements of two existing archiving systems (LOCKSS and KOPAL) in order to combine cost-effective bitstream preservation with an established tool for usability maintenance and format migration.

Based on these goals the chief elements of this project are:

1. to establish a cost-effective LOCKSS network in Germany including infrastructure to provide ongoing technical support and management for LOCKSS and its variants (e.g. CLOCKSS);
2. to conceptualize and implement interoperability between LOCKSS and KOPAL in order to combine cost-effective bitstream preservation with well-developed usability preservation tools; and
3. to test the interoperability prototype by archiving data from German institutional repositories.

The LuKII project has been presented at the following conferences:

ICDL International Conference on Digital Libraries, New Delhi 2010

International Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework Symposium, Dresden 2010

Multimedia-Tage der HU 2010, Berlin 2010

Community-based Approaches to Distributed Digital Preservation, Boston, MA 2010
Data Curation Research Summit, Chicago 2010
Internationale Alumni-Konferenz, Berlin 2010
Coalition for Networked Information, Arlington, VA 2010
(see also David S.H. Rosenthal from Stanford University: How Are We Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents? (Video))
Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation, Tallinn, Estonia 2011
100. Deutscher Bibliothekartag, Berlin 2011
Berliner Bibliothekswissenschaftliches Kolloquium (BBK), Berlin 2011                                    
Ins Netz gegangen – Neue Wege zum kulturellen Erbe 2011, Berlin 2011

The LuKII project has also participated in:

Allianz AG Hosting Workshop, Bonn 2010
National Hosting Plan - LOCKSS committee, 2010


Press Releases

Press Release CLOCKSS (Pressemitteilung): Press Release LuKII (Pressemitteilung):		Das Board of Directors der CLOCKSS-Gemeinschaft (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuf Save) hat die Humboldt-Universität, vertreten durch ihren Computer- und Medienservice und das Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, als erste deutschsprachige Institution als Mitglied aufgenommen. mehr... 16.11.2009 Wir freuen uns, dass die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) das Projekt "LOCKSS and KOPAL Infrastruktur und Interoperabilität" (LuKII) fördert. Das Projekt wurde vom Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft (IBI) der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, dem Computer und Medienservice (CMS) der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin und der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (DNB) ins Leben gerufen mehr...
Principal Investigators (Projektverantwortliche):		Prof. Michael Seadle PhD Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin School of Library and Information Science) Prof. Dr. Peter Schirmbacher Computer- und Medienservice Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Reinhard Altenhöner Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Contact (Ansprechpartner):		till 28.02.2011: Kathrin Grzeschik Project Coordinator LuKII kathrin.grzeschik(at)ibi.hu-berlin.de since 01.03.2011: Jenny Sieber Project Coordinator LuKII jenny.sieber(at)ibi.hu-berlin.de   since 01.02.2012: N.N. Contact: LuKII.IBI(at)hu-berlin.de
Links: Publications:		kopal LOCKSS LuKII Video FAQ Carpet LOCKSS (Support) LuKII Flyer (German) LuKII Flyer (English) LuKII (LOCKSS-und-KOPAL-Infrastruktur-und-Interoperabilität)     Grzeschik, K, Fromm, N, and Aust, P B.I.T.online - Zeitschrift für Bibliothek, Information und Technologie, 13(3):300-302. Das Projekt LuKII (LOCKSS-und-KOPAL-Infrastruktur-und-Interoperabilität) – eine Herangehensweise an Digitale Langzeitarchivierung für Deutschland (Preprint) Grzeschik, K Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis. Band 35, Heft 1, Seiten 109–114
Duration (Projektlaufzeit):		01.11.2009 - 31.08.2012
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