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  • English Tutorial
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
    • Cosmos Quiz
  • About the Tutorial
    • Reproduction Request
  • Using The Tutorial
  • 1. Setting the Stage
    • Timeline
    • Timeline Quiz
  • 2. Terms & Concepts
    • Digital Preservation
    • Archive / Digital Repository
    • OAIS Terms
    • Metadata
    • Digital Preservation Strategies
    • Other Terminology
    • Glossaries
  • 3. Obsolescence & Physical Threats
    • Obsolescence: File Formats and Software
      • PDF Specification Table
    • Obsolescence: Hardware and Media
    • Physical Threats
    • Putting It All Together
    • Media Quiz
    • Chamber of Horrors
      • Punch Media
      • Disks
      • Tapes
      • Solid State Media
  • 4. Foundations
    • Trusted Digital Repositories
      • Attributes of a TDR
      • OAIS Compliance
      • Administrative Responsibility
      • Organizational Viability
      • Financial Sustainability
      • Technological and Procedural Suitability
      • System Security
      • Procedural Accountability
    • OAIS Reference Model
      • Introduction
      • Administration
      • Preservation Planning
      • Archival Storage
      • Ingest
      • Access
      • Common Services
      • Data Management
    • Preservation Metadata
      • Adding Metadata
    • Putting It All Together
      • Mapping Cornell's Efforts
      • Merged Digital Preservation Model
  • 5. Challenges
    • Selecting Assets
    • Balancing Stakeholders
    • Legal Issues
    • Avoiding Obsolescence
    • Balancing Access Issues
    • Financing the Future
    • Defining Compliance
  • 6. Program Elements
    • Digital Assets
    • Organizational Infrastructure
    • Technological Infrastructure
    • Resources Framework
    • Special Resources
  • Conclusion
    • Additional Reading
    • Tutorial Evaluation
  • Questions?

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Introduction

1. Setting the Stage

2. Terms & Concepts

3. Obsolescence

4. Foundations

5. Challenges

6. Program Elements

Conclusion
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  • Introduction
  • Table of Contents
  • About the Tutorial
  • Using The Tutorial
  • 1. Setting the Stage
  • 2. Terms & Concepts
  • 3. Obsolescence & Physical Threats
  • 4. Foundations
  • 5. Challenges
  • 6. Program Elements
  • Conclusion
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