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Many—especially professional—archives are created by official bodies (governments, education institutions, businesses). Some archives are held as private collections. Some archives are dedicated to documenting and preserving specific community memories. Many such community archives embrace a participatory culture.
Web Archiving Program at Library and Archives Canada [27] Canada 2005 Archive-It service: 4 3 Web archiving in Canada is a legislated activity that is conducted for digital preservation purposes under section 8 (2) of the Library and Archives of Canada Act. [28] Four FTEs and three part-time staff work on the program.
The first step in archival processing is to survey the collection. The goal of a survey is to gain an understanding of the originator, determine the context of the creation of the collection, to observe the material's overall size and scope, to ascertain if the collection has access limitations, to locate any existing finding aids submitted with the collection, and to discover any underlying ...
The cornerstone of digital preservation, "data integrity" refers to the assurance that the data is "complete and unaltered in all essential respects"; a program designed to maintain integrity aims to "ensure data is recorded exactly as intended, and upon later retrieval, ensure the data is the same as it was when it was originally recorded".
The AtoM (previously ICA-AtoM) is a project originated by the International Council on Archives (ICA) that aimed to provide free license software that allows institutions to disseminate their archival holdings on the web. [2] Its last version in collaboration with the ICA was Release 1.3.2. [3]
The LOCKSS system is far smaller, but it can preserve subscription materials to which the Internet Archive has no access. Since each library administers its own LOCKSS peer and maintains its own copy of preserved material, and since there are libraries doing so worldwide (see the list of participating libraries below), the system provides a ...
Random sampling of library collections can give a quick and clear assessment measure of a collection—whether the books are present, and whether those books present are in good physical condition. In 1982, the California State University libraries, suggested inventory procedures to insure that the 19 campus collections were secure and intact.
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials, in any medium, or the physical facility in which they are located. [1] [2]Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the history and function of that person or organization.