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Alvin (digital Cultural Heritage Platform)
Alvin is a national technical platform for the dissemination and long term preservation of digitised cultural heritage and digital collections in Sweden. The platform contains material from several Swedish cultural heritage organisations, and is operated and developed at Uppsala University Library in collaboration with Gothenburg University Library and Lund University Library through the Alvin consortium. History Alvin as a system originated from several different projects that Uppsala University Library ran or participated in during a period between 2000-2014: * Creating a database to handle Erik Waller's extensive autograph collection * The management of the university library's digitized map and image collections through the image database Bildsök (sv. "Image Search") * The provenance and material bibliographic database ProBok, which was a collaboration between Uppsala University Library and the University Library at Lund University * The archive and handwriting infras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preservation (library And Archival Science)
In Library science, library and archival science, preservation is a set of preventive conservation activities aimed at prolonging the life of a record, book, or object while making as few changes as possible. Preservation activities vary widely and may include monitoring the condition of items, maintaining the temperature and humidity in collection storage areas, writing a plan in case of emergencies, digitizing items, writing relevant metadata, and increasing accessibility. Preservation, in this definition, is practiced in a library or an archive by a librarian, archivist, or other professional when they perceive a record is in need of maintenance. Preservation should be distinguished from interventive Conservation and restoration of books, manuscripts, documents and ephemera, conservation and restoration, which refers to the treatment and repair of individual items to slow the process of decay, or restore them to a usable state. Preventive conservation is occasionally used int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
