Bavarian State Library Munich , Germany
Since July 2005, the Bavarian State Library has been working on an extension of its long-term preservation infrastructure. In a two-year pilot project, a Library Archiving and Access System (BABS) for the preservation of internet publications has been developed. The technical infrastructure of the archival system is realized in partnership with the Leibniz Computing Centre Munich (LRZ). The main focus is on the Bavarian State Library's special collection fields: History, Classical Antiquity, Eastern Europe, Musicology and Bavarica, as well as on the electronic publications of regional publishers and public authorities. The collection comprises heterogenous and complex objects from various sources.
Project Aims
* Experimental data collection and data management.
* Testing of archiving methods and preservation strategies.
* Development of data management workflows in the library and in the computing center.
* Modular build of a technical infrastructure with object harvesting, ingest, metadata generation, archiving and access procedures.
* Integration of existing technical modules.
* Drawing up of agreements in cooperation with the producers and copyright owners for the whole lifecycle of the archival objects.
By now 28 TB, 13 million digitised pages, 18.000 titles.
Material focus:
a. digitised materials: manuscripts,incunabulas,16.cent. printings, rare books, DoD
b. ebooks, ejournals, websites
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