Ithaka S+R issued in July 2022 a really valuable report titled “The Effectiveness and Durability of Digital Preservation and Curation Systems”, authored by Oya Rieger, Roger Schoenfeld and Liam Sweeney, funded by a grant from the US Institute for Museum and Library Studies. This is the kind of broad landscape survey that we very badly need as we seek to understand priorities and strategies for digital preservation; it’s also extremely helpful in that it sheds considerable light on the roles that commercial preservation services are taking on in this landscape.

In a new Against The Grain interview, Tom Gilson and Katina Strauch talk with Alicia Wise, Executive Director of CLOCKSS. After presenting CLOCKSS’ services, Alicia Wise explains notably how the libraries and publishers in the CLOCKSS community work together to ensure success.

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) released its 2021 Annual Report on June 28th, 2022. The report, covering the fiscal year 2021 to March 31st, touches on all the year’s highlights in PKP’s ongoing efforts to expand public access to research and scholarship.

Bosniaca is the journal of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is published annually and includes original professional and scientific works in library science as well as systematized practices for the management of collections. It is available in English and indexed in DOAJ, Web of Science, EBSCO, ErihPlus, Slavic Humanities Index, Index Copernicus, ICI Journals Master List, C.E.E.O.L. (Central and Eastern European Online Library), Hrčak – the central portal of Croatian scientific journals, KoBSON – the Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition. The journal is now archived in PKP (Public Knowledge Project), a network for the digital preservation of OJS journals. This is a significant step in the further development of the magazine and a way to preserve the magazine for future generations of librarians, information and related experts.

Look at Bosniaca’s ISSN record and see the archival status in Keepers Registry.

One recommendation from the Community Metadata Strategy Task Force is to provide support for member libraries to improve metadata quality. The Metadata Quality Improvement Project kicked off this past month with a cohort of seven pilot libraries. Each of the participating member libraries will focus on a specific project within their own library and re-submit remediated content to HathiTrust. In addition to improving the overall quality of the HathiTrust collection, the program supports HathiTrust members’ diverse internal projects, initiatives, and goals.

Cincuenta unidades bibliográficas referentes al período virreinal peruano (1542-1824), invaluable material custodiado por la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú (BNP), fueron declaradas Patrimonio Cultural de la Nación por parte del Ministerio de Cultura. Entre las unidades bibliográficas se encuentran 34 números del “Mercurio Peruano”, publicados entre enero y abril de 1794 por la Sociedad Académica de Amantes de Lima. This publication has been identified by an ISSN, and is preserved by HathiTrust.

Grâce à une subvention de CollEx-Persée, les plans de conservation partagée, qu’accompagne le Centre Technique du Livre de l’enseignement supérieur (CTLes), ont pu être étendus au-delà du périmètre initial de l’Île-de-France et couvrir de nouveaux domaines. Les pôles de conservation ne s’engagent pas seulement à conserver les titres mais aussi à y donner accès. Les plans de conservation partagée et les pôles de conservation, sont signalés sur l’outil Périscope conçu par l’ABES, l’Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur.

Face aux défis de la diversité des publics et de son implantation dans quatre pays, la médiathèque de l’Institut français du Proche-Orient développe une stratégie de partenariats et de valorisation numérique de ses collections, couvrant les recherches en sciences humaines et sociales sur le Proche-Orient depuis le début du XX^e siècle.

One week after launching the initiative Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO), co-organizers from Stanford University, Tufts University and Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, report that the project’s Volunteers from across the world have captured over 1,500 Ukrainian museum and library websites, digital exhibits, text corpora, and open access publications. More than 1,300 cultural heritage professionals are working together to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions while the country is under attack. They are using a combination of technologies to crawl and archive sites and content, including the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the Browsertrix crawler.

Visit their collective page.

This report describes preservation activities, methods, and context for the Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship project, a two-year project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by New York University Libraries. Digital preservation institutions, libraries, and university presses, examined a variety of enhanced digital publications and identified which features can be preserved at scale using tools currently available.