Database Preservation

This is the home of the Database Preservation special interest groups.

See also Database Archiving & Migration Tools in the Digital Preservation Tool Registry registry.

Blogs

• http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2011-07-12-preservation-databases
• http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-02-09-ideas-actions
• http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-02-09-practitioners-discussion-database-archiving-hackathon
• http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-02-13-user-story-archiving-foxpro-database
• http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-02-20-use-cases-database-archiving

Events

• 2012-02-07 OPF Hackathon - A Practical Approach to Database Archiving
• Hacking with Databases (Copenhagen)
• Presentations - A Practical Approach to Database Archiving

Resources

• Digital Curation Resources
• NDIIPP Partner Tools and Services Inventory (Library of Congress)
• Data Documentation Initiative
• RODA development » Database Preservation
• XML: Multi-Schema Project:Zero, One, or Many Namespaces?
• Bidirectional conversion between XML documents and relational data bases
• International Workshop On Markup Of Overlapping Structures (Extreme Markup 2007)
• Significant properties in the preservation of relational databases

Working Groups

• 'Database Preservation Review' Working Group: Revision/Update of Bill Roberts' paper 'Database Preservation Review'  http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2011-07-12-preservation-databases

• Comparison of SIARD, DBML and SIARDK Working Group: Assessing the possibilities for a common database preservation format  

If you are interested in joining either of these groups, please contact [email protected]