Best until…a national infrastructure for digital preservation in the Netherlands

Barbara Sierman, KB National Library of the NetherlandsMarcel Ras, Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation

iPRES 2015 Conference, Chapel Hill 3-11-2015

The Dutch Digital HeritageSome estimations:25 PT at the Institute of Sound & Vision1.5 PT Eye Film Institute1.200.000 Research publications147.000 datasets15.000 digital art (200 TB)

But is that all?

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Network Digital Heritage (2014)

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Cultural Heritage Agency

Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation

National Archive

Smaller organisations

Inst. For Sound & Vision

DEN Knowledge Center

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science

National Library

National Digital Heritage Strategy (2015)• Develop national, cross-domain infrastructure of

digital heritage facilities• Focus on the user:

• Accessibility of collections• Identification of user groups• Any where, any moment

• Focus on organisations:• Challenges individually solved• Some front runners, other still discovering “digital”• Roles and responsibilities not always clear (who

collects what?)• Linking of infrastructures

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Benefits foreseen• Better usability and visibility of heritage collections• Better “experience” for the users• Economies of scale• Re-use of facilities

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3 Work programmes

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Making Digital Heritage visible

Making Digital Heritage usable

Making Digital Heritage sustainable

In practice: planning for “Visible”Create higher visibility and use of digital heritage

•Consumer insight

•Improve the visibility

•Professional skills development

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In practice: planning for “Usable”• Improve amount of offered

digitized content• Aggregation of collections

• Improve findability and search facilities• Thesauri, keywords, linked data

• Formulate research issues to improve usability

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Sowing in NCDD, harvesting in NDELead “Sustainability”: Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation

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Previous work in NCDD (2014-15)

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“National infrastructure”

“Together where possible, individually where necessary”

In practice: planning for “Sustainable”1. Scalability of facilities and infrastructure

• Better use of existing facilities for digital preservation

• Raise awareness of the essential needs of (smaller) organisations

• Catalogue of existing services• Practical steps towards a network of services• Web services for persistent identifiers• Software sustainability

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In practice: planning for “Sustainable”2 Transparancy of costs

• Use of CCEX tool of 4 C project to get information about key performance indicators

• Benchmarking of KPI’s• Guidelines for “heritage organisations” to

incorporate preservation costs in their budget• Guidelines about budget for preservation are part of

governmental funded projects• Strategy workshops

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In practice: planning for “Sustainable”3. Roles, Responsibilities and Conditions• Who preserves what?

• To identify gaps• Based on previous investigation into flow of

enhanced publications• Series of defined use cases

• How will it be preserved: Preservation Policies• Guidelines and instruction based on the SCAPE

Policy Model• Audit and certification • Preservation Network Netherlands

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We can start!

13-10-2015 Ministery signed the grant

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