Preservation of electronic publications mission

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Preservation of electronic publications mission

• Catherine Lupovici
• Directeur du Département de la Bibliothèque
  numérique
• Direction des Services et des Réseaux

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Overview

• Memory institutions traditional mission of long
  term preservation and access to scientific
  publications
• Legal deposit principles. Example of the French
  legislation
• Adaptation of custodial and preservation
  practices to electronic publications

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Memory institutions preservation mission

• National libraries, large historical academic or
  special libraries
• Complementary collection policies
• What does preservation mean
• No limitation in time
• Preservation of the context
• Curative and preventive preservation actions on
  the original, item per item approach
• Could lead to the creation of surrogates for
  access
• Specific preservation budget and organization

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Preservation of publications Legal deposit

• Scientific and cultural heritage is the result of
  preservation of acquisitions (selective policy)
  and legal deposit. It is also the result of some
  duplicate efforts
• Legal deposit concepts
• To collect, to describe, to preserve and provide
  access at the country level to the publications
  with respect of IPR
• The collection policy can be defined on different
  criteria (but with exhaustiveness in mind)
• Geographical basis
• Language basis
• Type of publication basis

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The French legal deposit example

• 1537 Printed material
• 1648 Engravings including maps
• 1793 Musical scores
• 1925 Photographs and graphic arts
• 1938 Music records
• 1941 Posters
• 1975 Videos and multimedia material
• 1992 Off line electronic publications
• Radio TV . INA(Institut National de
  lAudiovisuel)
• Movies CNC . (Centre National de la
  Cinématographie)
• June 2006 modification of the regulation.
  Possibility to negotiate the deposit of files in
  place of the above media
• August 2006 New Author rights law. Extension of
  Legal Deposit to online publications (Web)
• Harvesting and e-deposit

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Preservation of electronic publications

• Publication definition content made available to
  a public
• To day online publications on the Internet. Web
  harvesting in place of deposit (robot.txt)
• Classical publications, open access publications,
  self publications
• Digital surrogates are replacing microfilm
  preservation technology
• Trusted repository for long term preservation
• Mass preventive only preservation and risks
  management
• Distinct from online services

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Some figures

• BnF collections
• 12 million titles of printed material
• 62 000 published monographs deposited per year
• 345 000 serial titles, about 6500 new titles per
  year
• Web archives
• 700 000 domains in the French national domain .fr
• Current collection (1996-2006) 130 TB, 10
  billion files