Digital Preservation of Dynamic Reference Works: Where do we go from here?

Heather Ruland Staines

American Library Association, Anaheim, June 24, 2012

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When we say reference works…

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What digital preservation initiatives does Springer participate in?

--KB

--GNL

--Portico

--CLOCKSS

--LOCKSS

--The Keepers (beta)

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How does Springer preserve our eBooks and Reference Works?

• PDFs + metadata OR xml/epub files when available

• Preservation plan by the initiative (applicable)

• Internally via Content Management System

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• Growing, dynamic, concept-based works, managed on a collaborative basis

• Versions linked by doi suffixes, time stamps, histories, or CrossMarks

• Access Model or Access Plus eReferences

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Business Models and Digital Preservation:

• Access Models versus Perpetual Access

• Versioning and Updates

• eReferences (publishers may or may not update) vs. Digital Collections (constantly

expanding)

• eReferences paired with journals (semantic enrichment)

• Reference platforms with interlinking

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How is the content collected/preserved?

• Media storage vs FTP site

• ONIX feed of content + metadata

– Updated content may be replace previous version or be preserved alongside previous

version(s)

• Harvesting via LOCKSS box or similar crawl

– Tagging in markup for http queries indicates whether content has changed since it was

last collected

• Metadata from preservation initiative is collected by The Keepers

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What are we trying to preserve?

• Content (individual articles, images, maps, tables, datasets)

• Organizational structure

• Inter-connections and Linking

• User Experience

• User Generated Content

• Concepts and the information surrounding the concepts

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Main issues for publishers:

• Reference works are becoming more dynamic and much closer to databases

• Proliferation of file types that are included in these works

• Ensuring that citations, updates, errata, and addenda are connected and resolve properly

• What to Preserve: Snapshot versus entire User Experience

• Where do we go from here? Interactive experiences are becoming more like games

(learning platforms, book-like objects)

“Book-like Object”?

Preserve me!

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Thank you!

Dr. Heather Ruland Staines

Senior Manager eOperations

Heather.staines@springer.com