The Yale Electronic Archive

One Year of Progress:
Report on the Digital Preservation Planning Project


 

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Front matter            
Title
Table of Contents
The Project Team
Acknowledgments
Executive Summary
 

PART I- Background, Approaches, Assumptions    
Challenges for Long-Term Electronic Archiving
Background for the Planning Project
Approaches and Assumptions
Plan of Work for the Year
 

PART II – Lines of Inquiry    
Triggering Events
Some Economic Considerations
Contract Between the Publisher and the Archive
Archival Uses of Electronic Scientific Journals
The Metadata Inquiry
Elsevier Science's Technical Systems and Processes
Creation of a Prototype Digital Archive
Digital Library Infrastructure at Yale
 

PART III – Appendices    
A: Three Models of Archival Agents
B: Dublin Core to Effect to SML Mapping (chart)
C: Metadata Elements in an Electronic Journal Archive

Appendices D-G as one file
D: Elsevier Science Technical Systems and Processes (definitions and flow charts)
E: OAIS Model: Overview Areas of Investigation in Mellon Project (diagrams)
F: List of Site Visits During Planning Year
G: Possible Structure of the Yale DLI (key and diagram)