Document (#24015)

Author

Rothenberg, J.

Title

NEDLIB experiment using emulation to preserve digital publications

Source

Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie. 48(2001) H.3/4, S.200-204

Year

2001

Abstract

The increasing use of digital technology to produce documents, records, databases, and publications has a serious flaw: there are no proven techniques for ensuring that digital information will remain accessible, readable, and usable in the future. Unless libraries, archives, government agencies, and other recordkeeping organizations find ways to ensure the longevity of digital artifacts, considerable amounts of valuable information may be lost forever. The library and archives communities now generally recognize that digital information must be copied to new storage media quite frequently, since such media become physically unreadable or obsolete within a few short years. But there is also a deeper problem: A digital document can be made intelligible and usable only by running appropriate software to correctly interpret and >>render<< the document's logical format. Without such software, trying to read a digital document is like trying to read hieroglyphics without a Rosetta Stone. But software - along with the hardware on which it runs - becomes obsolete at least as quickly as the media on which digital documents are stored. This paper discusses the results of a small study undertaken by RAND-Europe for the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (the National Library of the Netherlands, referred to here as the >>KB<<) to investigate one possible solution to this problem. Within the context oft he KB's role in the Networked European Deposit Library (NEDLIB) effort,' this study experimented with the feasibility of using emulation as a means of preserving digital publications in accessible, authentic, and usable form within a deposit library. That is, the study attempted to show that emulating obsolete computer hardware on future computer hardware can be used to confer longevity on digital publications by allowing their obsolete software to be run on future platforms

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