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nestor – the German approach to digital curation

wePreserve Forum 2009

27th March 2009Barcelona, Spain

Christian KeitelLandesarchiv Baden-Württemberg

Special thanks goes to Stefan Strathmann, State and university Library Göttingen

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• the Network of Expertise in long-term STOrage of digital Resources in Germany.

• a cooperative project of libraries, archives and museums and other interested parties

• funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

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.de Past and Future of nestor

1. Project phase: 2003 – 20062. Project phase: 2006 – 20093. Cooperation Agreement: 2009 -…

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• Establish a cross-sectoral community to promote and support long-term preservation activities

• Raise awareness in society

• Trigger synergies between on-going activities in Germany and cooperate with international partners and projects

• Establish a permanent organisation which coordinates and represents the concerns of long-term storage

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.de nestor - tasks

• to make available expertise and information

• to support cooperation• to present models of procedures and

best practices • to establish standards • Not to set up an archive!

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• German National Library• Bavarian State Library• Göttingen State and University Library• Humboldt-University Berlin• FernUniversität Hagen• Institut für Museumskunde• Bundesarchiv / Federal Archive of

Germany• Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg

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.de nestor working groups

• Currently about 30 institutions in 5 working groups:– WG Trusted Repositories– WG Media– WG Grid, eScience and raw data– WG Cooperative long-term

preservation– WG Standardization

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• Criteria for trusted digital repositories

• Standardized delivery of electronic objects to the archive (Ingest)

• Interoperability of persistent identifiers

• In the future collaboration with DIN (German standardization body)

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.de nestor Expert-reports

• Digital Long-term preservation and law • Digitization and the Preservation of Digital Data in German Museums • Comparison of Existing Archival Systems • Long-term Preservation of Digital Publications – Preserving electronic

Journals (eJournals) • Perspectives of Long-term preservation of Multimedia Objects • Long-term Preservation of Raw Scientific Data • Developing a Profile for a National Long-term preservation Policy • Requirements from E-Science and Grid technology for the

preservation of scientific data• Standards and standardisation in the context of Grid/E-Science and

longterm preservation

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• nestor handbook• nestor - memorandum -

Memorandum on the long-term accessibility of digital information in Germany

• Collaboration with other projects, e.g. SHAMAN, PARSE.insight, kopal etc.

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• Training – nestor / DPE schools– cooperation with educational

institutions– Curriculum development– Development of eLearning modules– Seminars and Workshops

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Nestor worldwide: www.digitalpreservation.de

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Thank you for your kind attention!

Christian Keitelchristian.keitel@la-bw.de

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