Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Challenges of Archivation Projects
  • Goal- and Scope-Definition
    • Finding the source, determining the scope
    • Types of data
    • Controlling the content
    • Setting the stage, in conclusion
  • Data Acquisition
    • Passive data acquisition
    • Active data acquisition
  • Storage
    • Storage media selection
    • Longevity of archival media
    • Storage concepts
  • Digital Preservation
    • Obtaining a non-digital representation
    • Technology preservation
    • Conversion and standard formats
    • Emulation
    • Reviewing digital preservation
  • Access to the archive
  • Legal Issues
  • Economics
  • Metadata
    • Concepts
    • Preservation metadata
    • Authenticity
    • Rights management
    • Resource discovery
    • Metadata management
  • Summary of Challenges
  
  
• Related Work
  • The Internet Archive
  • Kulturarw3 - The Swedish Archive
  • Pandora
  • Die Deutsche Bibliothek
  • NEDLIB - Networked European Deposit Library
  • OAIS - Open Archival Information System
  • Cedars
  • Other initiatives
  
  
• AOLA - The Austrian On-Line Archive
  • Goal definition and general considerations
  • Other Internet sources
  • System setup
  • Nedlib crawl
    • Adapting the Nedlib-crawler
    • Running the Nedlib-crawler
  • Combine crawl
    • Adapting the Combine-crawler
    • Running the Combine-crawler
  • Evaluation of the harvested data
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Automatic Retrieval of Interactive Documents
  • Introduction
    • Outline of the task
  • Modules
    • The Harvester
    • The Parser
    • The Database
    • The Categoriser
    • The Value-Select
    • The Referee
  • The Prototype
    • Comparison of Forms
      • Comparison-Algorithm
    • Categorisation
      • Interpreting Fields Separately
      • Comparison of New Forms
      • Nearest Neighbour
      • Results
    • Value Selection
  • Further Improvements
  • Figures - Automatic Retrieval
  
  
• Lessons Learned
• Conclusions
• Bibliography