Digital Preservation

Code:

MCI0029

Acronym:

PD

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Information Science

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Informatics Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Information Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCI	9	Plano de estudos oficial	2	-	6	42	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Make the students aware of the relevance of digital preservation matters in the context of an information security analysis.
The classes are meant to create sensibility in the students for the problems of digital preservation and to expose them to experiences of case analysis, tool testing, and solutions development that give them competences adequate to participate in the development teams of information systems with a strong preservation component.

Learning outcomes and competences

- Identify the characteristics of digital objects and of information systems which may represent risks to the long term preservation of information;

- Select the essential dimensions of an organization’s assets, from the preservation viewpoint;

- Decide on tools to support the preservation process and on their integration with current information systems;

- Create preservation strategies adequate to the identified risks on existing systems;

- Formulate a preservation plan for a digital collection, considering the compromise between the sophistication and the cost of the solution;

- Define and assess the digitization operations technical requirements;

- Perform digital preservation operations on digital documents and records;

- Anticipate future reuse of the preserved information and demonstrate access to it in environments distinct from the creation environment;

- Take charge of the preservation requirements in information systems projects.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Preservation and digital preservation.

Typology of digital systems and objects.

Lifecycle of digital information: from production to preservation and future access.

Preservation strategies: conservation, emulation and migration.

Characteristics of digital documents and records and impact of preservation.

Technologies regarding the authenticity of documents and records.

Born digital documents and digitization.

Preservation formats.

Preservation metadata.

Database preservation.

Relevant legislation.

Requirements for an organizational digital preservation plan: organizational, archival, technical, security, audit.

Cost-benefit analysis of digital preservation.

Recommendations for information systems with archival dimension.

Initiatives and projects.

Practical cases: repositories, document management systems, transactional systems, analytic systems.

Mandatory literature

David Giaretta; Advanced digital preservation. ISBN: 978-3-642-16808-6

Complementary Bibliography

Henry M. Gladney; Preserving Digital Information, Springer, 2007. ISBN: 978-3-540-37886-0
Adrian Brown; Practical Digital Preservation, Facet Publishing, 2013. ISBN: 978-3-540-37886-0

Teaching methods and learning activities

The classes will include three different types of moments: subject lectures to be completed by bibliographic reviews; discussion of research topics proposed to the students and case analysis; execution of small practical exercises on digital preservation.

To develop integration competences of the digital preservation multiple facets, an applied project will be run based on a study case.

Software

SIARD 2.2
Archivematica 2.16
AtoM 2.8.2
RODA 5.6.5

keywords

Humanities > Information science > Information management
Physical sciences > Computer science > Database management

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Trabalho laboratorial	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	60,00
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Trabalho de investigação	26,00
Trabalho laboratorial	34,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

At least 40% in all the grading components.

Calculation formula of final grade

Classification=0.4*Research+0.6*LabAssignment

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Like the general assessment method.