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Enhancing e-Book Preservation: Insights and Future Directions

This presentation by Stephanie Orphan, Director of Publications at Portico, explores lessons learned in e-book preservation, outlining strategies for enhanced access and usability. It discusses the significant investments libraries have made in digital collections, the challenges of metadata migration and content identification, and the evolving needs for preserving complex digital products. Orphan emphasizes the importance of community standards in addressing gaps and ensuring the enduring accessibility of digital resources. The future of preservation aims to extend beyond scholarly works into trade and dynamic content.

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Enhancing e-Book Preservation: Insights and Future Directions

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  1. Beyond Serials—Lessons Learned and Future Directions for e-Book Preservation Stephanie Orphan Director of Publications, Portico

  2. Portico’s Preservation Services • E-Journal(2005) • E-Book • (2008) • D-Collections(2009) Community Model Publisher Supported

  3. Working with d(igitized historic)-collections • Why the different model? • Library investment in d-collections is already substantial • Publishers want to ensure that ALL of their purchasers are entitled to access through Portico if necessary (without the burden of local loading) • No “standard” for metadata migration • Primarily descriptive metadata (Dublin Core extract is sufficient) • Size matters. • Impacts local storage, archive, replicas, processing . . . • System reconfigurations • Increased communication and coordination

  4. Digital preservation is the series of management policies and activities necessary to ensure the enduring usability authenticity discoverability accessibility • of content over the very long-term.

  5. E-Book Formats • What Portico expected— • EPUB—lots of it • NLM or proprietary headers + PDF • NLM or proprietary full-text markup • What Portico has seen— • ONIX metadada plus PDF—lots of it • NLM or proprietary headers + PDF • NLM or proprietary full-text markup • Oh, the packaging! • flat files or zip files, by book or groups of books “J-Books”

  6. Recent Developments • Publishers looking to preserve more complex products • Reference databases or other digital products based on print volumes • More than just metadata and rendition pairs or self-contained format • additional mapping • complex relationships • updates • Requires decisions regarding content type and business model

  7. Challenges to doing business Variety of sales/purchase/access models—can’t mimic publisher offerings Clarifying access scenarios—many e-books on multiple platforms, when is access through preservation service needed? Increasing coverage in the face of aggregations--rights issues can be a barrier to inclusion Technical issues— Embedded or linked content DRM (Portico does not preserve) HTML-only/plain-text books A little bit of both— Book identification complicated by multiple ISBNs A book is a book is a book, except when it isn’t Challenges for preservations services

  8. Possibilities for the Future • Expand standard preservation services to accommodate less traditional e-books • Explore the need to move beyond scholarly markets (e.g. trade) • Develop preservation models for digital scholarship, dynamic content, and other nonserial formats • Preservation community “collection policy” to make sure there are no significant gaps

  9. “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it” ~ Moliere

  10. Stephanie Orphan Director of Publisher Relations, Portico • 609-986-2226 • stephanie.orphan@portico.org www.portico.org Thank you!

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