Heterogeneous digital data that has been produced by different communities with varying
practices and assumptions, and that is organized according to different representation …

The concept of significant properties, properties that must be identified and preserved in any
successful digital object preservation, is now common in data curation. Although this notion …

In information organization systems, metadata is often attached to both collections and
items. Collection metadata and item metadata are related: one can infer facts about items …

Digital preservation is fundamental to information stewardship in the 21 st century. Although
much useful work on preservation strategies has been accomplished, we do not yet have an …

Bibliographic aggregates such as anthologies, collections, journal issues, and media series
are increasingly becoming the focus of bibliographic description. Bibliographic description …

Generating one dataset from another is a fundamental activity in data science: data curators
convert datasets to different file formats, create data subsets, generate metadata, integrate …

Conclusion Preservation actions like migrations can only be assessed if preservation
models reflect a correct, complete, and sufficiently fine-grained representation of digital …

One of the reasons to come to a conference like this is to learn new things. And as Tommie
Usdin reminded us in the opening session Usdin, confrontation with other people and …

CM Sperberg-McQueen is the founder and principal of Black Mesa Technologies, a
consultancy specializing in helping memory institutions improve the long term preservation …