Case study: Preservation of image documents at the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI-KNAW)

René van Horik

Issues covered in the presentation:

• Task and mission of NIWI-KNAW
  • Archiving of scientific data (Netherlands Historical Data Archive for archiving data sets created by scholars in the Humanities)
  • Research & Development of ICT applications in Humanities (e.g. Historical discipline)
  • Digital data collection creation projects (historical censuses, GIS, visual material)
• Creation and archiving of image documents at NIWI-KNAW
  • Project oriented
  • Scope on digitisation of historical sources
  • Relation analogue original - digital surrogate
  • Benchmarking digitisation chain
  • Examples (mainly digitisation of historical photographic collections)
• How to guarantee long-term access to images?
  • Risk management (assessment of risks that threat long-term access to digital images and the impact of the risks)
  • In some situations microfilm is best archival medium!
    • 'Film based imaging'
    • Preservation microfilming vs. preservation imaging
  • Access = preservation.
    • OAI-PMH
    • LOCKSS
  • OAIS reference model
    • Function as "checklist"
    • Used in practice to implement a data archive (of image documents)