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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:05:28 +0100
From: Jan Smits <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: "Using emulation to preserve digital documents"
Sender: Jan Smits <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Colleagues,
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library, National Library of The Netherlands) has commissioned Jeff Rothenberg of Rand-Europe to write a study concerning emulation to preserve digital documents. This study is full text available as a pdf-file on http://www.kb.nl/kb/pr/fonds/emulation/usingemulation.pdf (134 Kb). You can also order hard-copies (see below).
The following information is from the KB-homepage:
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Using emulation to preserve digital documents / Jeff Rothenberg. - Den Haag : Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 2000. - 70 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN 906259145-0.
Price: this publication can be ordered for free (subject to availability); email to [log in to unmask], mentioning 'Using emulation' as subject. Do not forget to state your whole surface-mail address.
This report considers the problem of how to preserve digital documents, given the fact that their formats quickly become obsolete, as do the programs that originally interpreted those formats and the computers on which those programs ran. This problem is investigated from the perspective of the deposit library community, though the issues and solutions discussed here also apply more broadly to the full range of digital data, documents, records, and other artifacts that are used by other kinds of libraries, archives, government agencies, commercial organizations, and individuals. The report attempts to identify and illuminate the root of this problem and, more specifically, discusses the theoretical and practical issues involved in using emulation as a way of preserving authentic, accessible, usable digital documents.
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Within the framework of NEDLIB (Networked European Deposit Library), jointly funded by the European Commission's Telematics for Libraries Programmes, Jeff Rothenberg was commissioned to write a follow-up study as the first phase of a longer-term effort by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek to test and evaluate the feasibility of using emulation as a means of preserving digital publications in accessible, authentic, and usable form within a depository library. This study has been published as:
An experiment in using emulation to preserve digital publications / Jeff Rothenberg (Rand Europe). - Den Haag : Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 2000. - 69 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
ISBN 90-6259-144-2
It is a more technical report than the one mentioned before. You can order a free hardcopy (except for postal charges) by filling in the form on:
http://www.konbib.nl/coop/nedlib/bestel.shtml
I hope some of you will show interest in these studies as they concern all who have to do with preserving part of our cultural heritage.
With kind regards,
Jan Smits
Jan Smits
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of The Netherlands
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