Country |
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Why not? Who should take over this task? |
Type of library |
Austria |
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Lack of money; this is a task for big libraries. |
UL |
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I am convinced that long term preservation of digital documents should be part of our activities in the field of digital libraries. But I would rather prefer a cooperative solution of this problem to a solo run of single libraries; national libraries and other research libraries would be the adequate partners. In our library we run a server with digital theses and working papers of the university, which will be expanded to preprints and post prints published by members of the university. The system includes all actual standards like metadata, OAI and the like; however at the moment we are not able to guarantee long term preservation. But we hope to have established the system in a way that all documents can be transferred to an archive in future. See http://epub.wu-wien.ac.at. |
UL |
Belgium |
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At the moment we do not have digital documents and we do not have any means to preserve such documents, either. |
GRL |
Denmark |
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The task should be handled by national and international bodies. Long term preservation of (the same) material at all the libraries is not cost-efficient. |
UL |
Finland |
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The National Library: to provide guidelines, policies and procedures |
UL |
France |
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Given the small size of our library and in order to favour the visibility of these archives, it seems more reasonable to share this task between institutions on a higher level (regionally or nationally, dependent on the type of documents) and only collect documents on a local level that are not of interest on a regional or national level. |
UL |
Germany |
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Library networks, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, regional libraries (depositary copies). |
UL |
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The library and the university are too small to take over this task. This task should rather be accomplished by library networks, library IT centres and/or big libraries. |
UL |
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Die Deutsche Bibliothek. |
UL |
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Long-term preservation of digital documents is a task which cannot be accomplished by a single library. This needs cooperation networks and their coordination as well as financial resources and staff, i.e. resources that are not in the scope of regular university libraries. As it is already the case in Germany, the technical concepts should be created by national libraries as well as some other big libraries. The realization has to be on a national level or on the level of library networks. |
UL |
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The technical and financial resources are too restricted. Long term preservation of digital documents should be the responsibility of library network centres or big university libraries. Small libraries could cooperate in the acquisition of digital documents, but they should not try to build up their own preservation systems. |
GRL |
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Regional libraries, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, and "Zentrale Fachbibliotheken" should care for the long term preservation of digital documents. In Baden-Württemberg we start to organize long term preservation via BOA. It is useful to share this task between a few institutions. |
UL |
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Long term preservation exceeds the technical resources of our library. This is the task of national libraries. Short-term preservation could be done depending on demand. |
UL |
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We do not have the technical or financial means. Digital archives should not be offered everywhere but in a few central institutions. |
UL |
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Our primary task is to provide literature for our own university. Long term preservation of digital documents should be the task of regional research libraries. |
UL |
Greece |
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The national library or a national center/institute should have the above task among its primary goals. |
UL |
Hungary |
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Regional centers that might be based on libraries, and a member of which could be our library, too, could take this task. |
UL |
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We are dealing with the long term preservation of digital documents a long time ago within a small department in our library. But I think it is yet realy in mind in our whole library or library leadership or in strategy of our library. |
NL |
Italy |
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Libraries whose task is to collect all the documents of a region and depositary copies, such as national libraries. |
UL |
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This is an activity which needs resources and should be done on a national level. National libraries should hence deal with this question, because they are already responsible for depositary copies. |
UL |
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The university is member of the network CIBER (Coordinamento interuniversitario basi dati & Editoria elettronica). CIBER uses the technical services of yet another network which is called CASPUR. I assume that the long term preservation of digital documents should be organized in a cooperative and coordinated way. In our case this subject could be expanded to the various other networks of Italian universities and it could well be networks like CIBER, but also CILEA, which could organize such a service on a national level. |
UL |
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My negative answer is linked to the actual situation of the library: our library has a new constitution and has centralized all the heritage and services of the whole "Ateneo". The library has also started a transfer of data from one software to another and it is involved in vital projects to make more efficient the functionality of the library. For these reasons the library cannot possibly dedicate any additional effort to the activity of long term preservation of digital documents. |
UL |
Lithuania |
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In my opinion long term preservation of digital documents should be organized on a European level. |
UL |
Netherlands |
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Long term preservation is a task for specialists because of the many different electronic formats. That's why we are pleased that the Dutch royal library will adopt this task. We are participating in a project with the Royal Library that will assure long term preservation. |
UL |
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National library. |
UL |
Norway |
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First of all a task for national libraries in cooperation with publishers. No need for libraries to build own "collections" of digital material. One national repository. |
UL |
Poland |
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I think large libraries as university libraries and the National Library should to do this. My library is too small and we have enough money now. I will consider it in the future when my library has more digital documents. |
UL |
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In our opinion libraries at the moment are not prepared enough for such a work. They do not have enough experience, funds and apropriate technology. |
UL |
Slovakia |
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Digitalisation is very important but it is not a matter of one library. Every library should preserve and provide an access to digital documents but these collections should be linked within the national and international network. |
UL |
Slovenia |
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Our library is technological library, we are not depository library. Depository libraries and national libraries should take care of long term preservation. |
UL |
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We do not hold collections of digital documents. |
GRL |
Sweden |
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Costs too much for each library to build the technical basis for the preservation. It is a good example of what can be centralized to a few institutions. A task for a national library or even cooperation on an international basis. |
UL |
Switzerland |
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National libraries and large university libraries. |
GRL |
United Kingdom |
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An institutional repository might well be a local intrinsic task but a nationa/international repository would serve the wider community better and would be a more efficient and effective use of resources. |
UL |
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Nationally organised - with national and major research libraries taking major role (as they have the collections) should we prove to have unique items in this library then we would present them for digitisation. However I do not see this library (only 250.000 volumes) being a main digitisation site. |
UL |
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Needs to be nationally co-ordinated; it might be appropriate for individual libraries to be directly involved in various ways but without some kind of co-ordinating oversight we'll all end up duplicating effort. |
UL |
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The responsibility for digital preservation will probably depend on the identity of the creator and the nature of the digital object. For example, long-term curation and preservation of digital research data should probably be the responsibility of national agencies (e.g. the UK Data Archive). Typically I would expect university libraries to accept responsibility for preservation for documents generated internally, or deposited in institutional repositories. |
UL |
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There need to be national/international strategies to avoid duplication of effort, adherence to quality standards, scale economies accessability etc. This could be achieved by a centralised or a distributed model. |
UL |
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We do not hold research collections. Research libraries. |
UL |