Curation-Migration Cycle: A Preservation-Centered Framework for Institutional Repository Migration
Location
Cook 209A / Zoom Room A
Presentation Type
Full Concurrent Session
Start Date
26-4-2024 9:00 AM
Description
Digital preservation involves an elaborate cycle of remediatory actions including data and format migration between infrastructures. In the Digital Curation Centre's (DCC) Curation Lifecycle Model (Digital Curation Centre, n.d.; Higgins 2007/2008), migration appears as a preservation action leading to data transformation and immunity from obsolescence. Institutional repositories (IRs) are essentially digital archives representing the structure, relationships, investments, and heritage of organizations trusting the technology to preserve records in digital form. The organization of IRs (e.g., collections, sub-collections, and communities) represent interrelated structures: those of the records (as organized into groups, series, and sub-series by processing archivists) and the hierarchies of record creators (as seen in finding aids). It is vital for curators to maintain this connection at times of migration between infrastructures, data models, and metadata schema (see Littman et al., 2023). IR migrations (especially with large data sets) therefore require extensive planning and thoughtful implementation.
The DCC model is a widely recognized cyclical framework requiring a socio-technological approach involving the ANT, and the relationship between human (participants, organizations) and nonhuman actors (technologies, policies, standards). A preservation action initiates migration (after re-appraisal if necessary) leading to data transformation using new metadata and/or format standards, infrastructure, or organizational context. The Levels of Representation framework can inform professional actions (such as migrations) on bitstream/physical entities to aggregations/data sets. Increased ontological commitments are necessary in migrating large collections due to multiple levels of relationships among contents and record-creating organizations. These considerations must guide preservation actions and migrations between different infrastructures, metadata schema, and content standards.
This presentation focuses on the curation-migration cycle—a preservation-centered framework for planning IR migrations. It will address theoretical frameworks like "Levels of Representation" (Lee, 2011) and Actor-Network Theory (LaTour, 1996; Herman, 2023) necessary for a socio-technological approach, and report on a decade of experience and lessons learned from four IR migrations at the University of Toledo.
Presentation Slides
Curation-Migration Cycle: A Preservation-Centered Framework for Institutional Repository Migration
Cook 209A / Zoom Room A
Digital preservation involves an elaborate cycle of remediatory actions including data and format migration between infrastructures. In the Digital Curation Centre's (DCC) Curation Lifecycle Model (Digital Curation Centre, n.d.; Higgins 2007/2008), migration appears as a preservation action leading to data transformation and immunity from obsolescence. Institutional repositories (IRs) are essentially digital archives representing the structure, relationships, investments, and heritage of organizations trusting the technology to preserve records in digital form. The organization of IRs (e.g., collections, sub-collections, and communities) represent interrelated structures: those of the records (as organized into groups, series, and sub-series by processing archivists) and the hierarchies of record creators (as seen in finding aids). It is vital for curators to maintain this connection at times of migration between infrastructures, data models, and metadata schema (see Littman et al., 2023). IR migrations (especially with large data sets) therefore require extensive planning and thoughtful implementation.
The DCC model is a widely recognized cyclical framework requiring a socio-technological approach involving the ANT, and the relationship between human (participants, organizations) and nonhuman actors (technologies, policies, standards). A preservation action initiates migration (after re-appraisal if necessary) leading to data transformation using new metadata and/or format standards, infrastructure, or organizational context. The Levels of Representation framework can inform professional actions (such as migrations) on bitstream/physical entities to aggregations/data sets. Increased ontological commitments are necessary in migrating large collections due to multiple levels of relationships among contents and record-creating organizations. These considerations must guide preservation actions and migrations between different infrastructures, metadata schema, and content standards.
This presentation focuses on the curation-migration cycle—a preservation-centered framework for planning IR migrations. It will address theoretical frameworks like "Levels of Representation" (Lee, 2011) and Actor-Network Theory (LaTour, 1996; Herman, 2023) necessary for a socio-technological approach, and report on a decade of experience and lessons learned from four IR migrations at the University of Toledo.
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