Digital Preservation

• A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections: 3^rd Edition, National Information Standards Organization (NISO), December 2007. Read pages 4–25.
  http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/framework3.pdf
• Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital  Archive: A Preliminary Assessment. Besek, June M. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources and Library of Congress, 2003
  http://www.clir.org/PUBS/reports/pub112/pub112.pdf
• Ensuring Perpetual Access: Establishing a Federated Strategy on Perpetual Access and Hosting of Electronic Resources for Germany. Beagrie, Charles. 2010
  http://www.allianzinitiative.de/fileadmin/hosting_studie_e.pdf
• Understanding PREMIS.  Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office, February 2009
  http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/understanding-premis.pdf
• Planning for Digital Preservation: 20 Questions for Providers of Digital Storage Services. Reilly, Bernard. Center for Research
  Libraries. http://www.nedcc.org/assets/media/documents/QuestionstoAskProvidersofDigitalStoragefinal.pdf
• Care and Handling of Optical Disc. Byers, Fred R. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 2004
  http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.05/docs/CDandDVDCareandHandlingGuide.pdf

Examples:

• File Formats and Guidelines. Harvard University Office for Information Systems, September 2009
  http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/digpres/guidance.html
• OIS Recommendations for PDF Files Created for Long-term Preservation and Access.  Goethals, Andrea. Harvard University Library, February 2010
  http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/digpres/docs/OIS_recs_for_pdf.pdf 
• Deep Blue Preservation and Format Support. University of Michigan, 2008
  http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/static/about/deepbluepreservation.html