Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and
Information Issues invites submissions for a themed issue on Digital
Preservation.
A process of double peer review will be applied. Abstracts (no more than 1,000 words) are due Tuesday 1
November 2016 and the full manuscript for selected articles will be due
Friday 31 March 2017. The themed issue will be published in Summer 2017. The journal is published by Sage.
The scale and diversity of digital collections in national memory
institutions has grown immensely over the past decades. The challenges of
maintaining and preserving these collections for future generations have
been recognized and addressed in various forms, and solution maturity at an
international level is diverse. To reflect this diversity and share
experiences across the international stage, we are seeking articles on
practical implementation models for digital preservation, staffing and
embedding digital preservation expertise, holistic and sustainable
solutions, and the implications of local, national and collaborative
strategies.
Full articles should be between 4000 and 7500 words long.
Short communications should be no more than 3000 words long.
Author guidelines
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
* Technical infrastructures to support large- or small-scale digital
preservation
* Partnerships and consortia approaches to digital preservation
* Holistic digital preservation programmes
* Implementation of macro-level solutions
* Policy frameworks to enable digital preservation
* National digital preservation strategies and policies
* Challenges in funding and sustaining digital preservation
* Automated quality assurance and solutions for digital preservation
actions
* Monitoring digital collections for obsolescence
* Digital collection profiling
* Preservation planning and delivery of preservation plans
* Active preservation of legacy digital collections
* Infrastructures to coordinate preservation planning over time
* Metadata standards and practices for digital preservation
* Approaches to organizational upskilling and training in digital
preservation
* Sustainability of digital preservation toolsets
* Format assessments, risk management, and recommendations
* Pre-ingest processing and normalization
* Unique endeavours in digital preservation
* Lifecycle preservation solutions
* Lessons learned from implementation practices within a national
library
* Digital preservation communication programmes
* Benchmarking and lessons learned from other national libraries'
digital preservation programmes
This is not a prescriptive list: Alexandria wishes to present the widest
possible range of papers relating to digital preservation, including papers
from the perspective of academic libraries, public libraries and other
archiving institutions. All submissions make clear their collecting context
and we particularly welcome submissions on new and emerging programmes
within developing countries.
This themed issue will be edited by Maureen Pennock (Head of Digital
Preservation at the British Library) and Libor Coufal (Assistant Director,
Digital Preservation at the National Library of Australia). Queries about
the suitability of a topic should be addressed in the first instance to the
Journal Editor, Monica Blake or Assistant Editor, Lyn Robinson
Information Issues invites submissions for a themed issue on Digital
Preservation.
A process of double peer review will be applied. Abstracts (no more than 1,000 words) are due Tuesday 1
November 2016 and the full manuscript for selected articles will be due
Friday 31 March 2017. The themed issue will be published in Summer 2017. The journal is published by Sage.
The scale and diversity of digital collections in national memory
institutions has grown immensely over the past decades. The challenges of
maintaining and preserving these collections for future generations have
been recognized and addressed in various forms, and solution maturity at an
international level is diverse. To reflect this diversity and share
experiences across the international stage, we are seeking articles on
practical implementation models for digital preservation, staffing and
embedding digital preservation expertise, holistic and sustainable
solutions, and the implications of local, national and collaborative
strategies.
Full articles should be between 4000 and 7500 words long.
Short communications should be no more than 3000 words long.
Author guidelines
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
* Technical infrastructures to support large- or small-scale digital
preservation
* Partnerships and consortia approaches to digital preservation
* Holistic digital preservation programmes
* Implementation of macro-level solutions
* Policy frameworks to enable digital preservation
* National digital preservation strategies and policies
* Challenges in funding and sustaining digital preservation
* Automated quality assurance and solutions for digital preservation
actions
* Monitoring digital collections for obsolescence
* Digital collection profiling
* Preservation planning and delivery of preservation plans
* Active preservation of legacy digital collections
* Infrastructures to coordinate preservation planning over time
* Metadata standards and practices for digital preservation
* Approaches to organizational upskilling and training in digital
preservation
* Sustainability of digital preservation toolsets
* Format assessments, risk management, and recommendations
* Pre-ingest processing and normalization
* Unique endeavours in digital preservation
* Lifecycle preservation solutions
* Lessons learned from implementation practices within a national
library
* Digital preservation communication programmes
* Benchmarking and lessons learned from other national libraries'
digital preservation programmes
This is not a prescriptive list: Alexandria wishes to present the widest
possible range of papers relating to digital preservation, including papers
from the perspective of academic libraries, public libraries and other
archiving institutions. All submissions make clear their collecting context
and we particularly welcome submissions on new and emerging programmes
within developing countries.
This themed issue will be edited by Maureen Pennock (Head of Digital
Preservation at the British Library) and Libor Coufal (Assistant Director,
Digital Preservation at the National Library of Australia). Queries about
the suitability of a topic should be addressed in the first instance to the
Journal Editor, Monica Blake or Assistant Editor, Lyn Robinson
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