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currently offers the typical academic library a complete solution to its archival needs. Nor do any cover the greater proportion of journals titles being published today.’ Time should remedy this, and as Rachel
Bruce, JISC’s digital infrastructure programme director points out, these and other initiatives have already solved many technical issues. She believes that two JISC-funded projects have been crucial to progress. These projects are CEDARS, an early collaboration between the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Leeds that explored metadata issues, and the CAMiLEON Project, an initiative between the Universities of Michigan and Leeds that considered obsolete technologies. ‘These also helped bodies like the British Library get support to ensure digital preservation received the resources it required,’ she adds. Bruce is hopeful that, one day, digital preservation will become ‘so embedded we don’t necessarily notice it’. As she highlights, recent progress on rights and licencing issues, including support for digital preservation from the UK government- supported Hargreaves Intellectual Property review, could help to ensure this.
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website owner. But as Gibby points out, this ‘burdensome and bureaucratic process’ will soon change. ‘The government is proposing regulations
Richard Gibby Eileen Fenton But as the digital preservation of journals,
and indeed books, gains ground, what about website preservation? In 2009, The British Library’s chief executive, Lynne Brindley, warned that our cultural heritage was at risk as the internet evolved and websites altered content, focusing media attention on the so- called digital black hole.
Legal deposit Richard Gibby, legal deposit manager at The British Library has long considered the issues around non-print legal deposit. Traditional copyright law has meant legal deposit libraries, such as The British Library, could only archive websites after copyright permission had been obtained from each
that will give legal deposit libraries the copyright permission they need to collect material from freely-available websites,’ he explains. ‘It will also oblige publishers to give us a password to access journals that have only been available behind a pay-wall.’ But, as with electronic journal preservation, challenges lie head. First, many publishers have data security concerns. ‘They need to be confi dent if they deposit material it will be held securely and not leak off online and destroy their businesses,’ says Gibby. He also anticipates challenges regarding
the many terabytes of data that will be archived. Still, he, and colleagues, are eager for change. ‘We are desperate for these regulations to
come into place as soon as they possibly can,’ he asserts. ‘Without [them], the digital black- hole would certainly continue to grow... but with a legal framework in place, we will be able to archive the UK web-space on a much larger, more effi cient scale.’
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