LIBER 39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE - Statsbiblioteket

The development of the next generation
e-Depot system is organized as a group
of projects. These projects focus on:
- workflow for ingest and quality control
- data modelling and metadata
- storage
- migration from 1st to 2nd generation
system
The projects are now in full speed and will
deliver a new e-Depot infrastructure in
2011. This new system will be a modular
system and a combination of different
“off-the-shelf” and tailor made system
components. The operational experience
gained in the past seven years and the
knowledge out of the R&D activities are
put into the requirements for the new
system.
The new e-Depot will process and store all
digital collections on different preservation
levels, based on a digital collection
management plan. For all digital collections,
a level will be set at time of selection.
This level will determine the way the
collection is processed (with all possible
checks or with basic processing), the way
the collection is described (top-level description
like national bibliography entries
with manual checks or automatic generation
and processing of minimal metadata)
and preservation actions to be developed
and applied (format migration and/or
emulation). This approach is based on the
realisation that not all digital collections
require the same investment and top-level
care for millions of objects comes with
enormous, unaffordable, costs.
KB is currently in the process of laying
down this preservation level policy. The
policy is also one of the basic principles
for our current requirements setting and
tender procedure for a next-generation
LTP system.
marcel Ras is Head of the e-Depot
Department of the national library of The
Netherlands (KB). He received his M.A.
degree from Nijmegen University in the
fields of Ancient History and Archaeology
in 1992. After some of years of Archaeological
field survey in different countries,
he joined the Post-Graduate training
on Historical Information processing at
Leiden University as Head and teacher of
the training school. From 1999 to 2005
he worked as a consultant for the Digital
Heritage Association and was involved in
many digitization- and standardisation
projects in The Netherlands. As of 2005
Marcel works for the national library of
the Netherlands, first as project manager
Web Archiving, and since 2007 as manager
of the e-Depot department. Marcel
is still involved in training and teaching at
Leiden University in the field of digitization
and digital preservation.
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