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PrestoSpace Help - Preservation Projects

7. PrestoSpace support for Preservation Transfer Projects

7.1 Business Case Planning

Planning for Preservation and Access (Report) – D13.1 This report drew on extensive interview of PrestoSpace partners, which tend to be large archives operating mainly in the broadcast sector. To increase our ability to support smaller and non-broadcast archives, this Workpackage will produce a second report concentrating specifically in that sector: ''' Calculating Preservation and Access Costs''' (Software; freeware) D13.2 In support of D13.1, we have produced a simple software tool implementing the needed calculations. For various media and preservation strategies, the software calculates required investment, year-by-year.

Preservation needs of small archives (report); D13.3 This report will cover the same general topics as D13.1, but focussing entirely on information from, and the needs of, small and non-broadcast archives. ''' Digital Repositories Explained''' (report); D13.4 An explanatory paper covering the emerging concept of digital repository. This label has been taken up by various part of the digital library community, and there are standards in development and products becoming available. The purpose of the paper is to explain these developments, and examine their significance for the preservation of media archives. ''' Service Level Agreements for Storage''' (report and sample documents); D13.5 It is becoming increasing clear that there is a major alternative to ALL of the decisions about which type of digital storage technology to implement, namely to outsource the storage and let someone else provide the technology. At this point, the key issue is not managing technology, but managing a service relationship. We will draw on the experience inside and outside PrestoSpace, and in the STAG technology group, to produce a guidance report including model or example documents. The key issues are still permanence of the storage (degree of risk of loss) and speed of access, but archivists need to know how to specify their requirements, and what questions to ask, in order to actually achieve the required permanence and access.

top 7.2 Finding Service Providers

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top 7.3 Outsourced Storage

Information on commercial companies that provide storage equipment, consultancy, integration and services is provided in Appendix ý10.3.

top 7.4 Funding, Training and Advice

D22.1 Project website with clear PrestoSpace description. This will be the portal for all project information.

D21.1 : Compilation of existing technical literature: Compilation of essential audiovisual technology, technical manuals of existing playback machines, including scanned documents held on Project Web site.

D22.4 Annual Report on Preservation Issues for Audiovisual Archives. This report will be edited annually, and published on the project web site, with a CD-ROM version and a paper version, if possible in conjunction with other IST projects.

D21.2 DVDs of actual equipment operation: edited recordings with experts, plus the Web site material.

D21.4 Training material for new technology: course material concerning: digitisation, storage management, restoration methods, metadata organisation.