今日查看邮件，获悉德国国家科技图书馆已选用Rosetta数字保存系统，该系统是去年升级的2.0版。北京的国家科学图书馆一直在致力推动此方面的合作研究，经费也比较充裕，不知在此方面是否有计划或者有所作为。在数字资源犹如奔腾的长江滚滚流逝的今天，中国图书馆界能够建立起数字资源的蓄水大库吗？期待中。

German National Library of Science & Technology Selects the Rosetta Digital Preservation System

Rosetta will enable this national library to preserve millions of digitized and digitally born records in perpetuity

Jerusalem, Israel—December 07, 2011. Ex Libris^® Group, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover has selected Rosetta for its digital collections. The library will lead the digital preservation program for the three member libraries of the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information, also known as Goportis.

As national libraries for different fields, the Goportis members have a mandate to index, store, and provide access to all the resources in their collections in perpetuity. An increasing proportion of these libraries’ collections consists of digitized and digitally born materials, including both textual and audio-visual content.

Installed in libraries and archives worldwide, Rosetta supports the acquisition, validation, ingest, storage, preservation, and delivery of digital objects. Rosetta enables academic institutions as well as libraries, archives, and other memory institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, Web sites, and other digitally born and digitized materials.

“In our view Rosetta is the only multi-tenant solution that provides the complete functionality for long-term digital preservation,” commented Uwe Rosemann, director of the German National Library of Science and Technology. “Rosetta encompasses the entire workflow process from Ingest to Storage to Access, and presents these workflows through Preservation Planning and Preservation Action modules. Rosetta’s adherence to the Open Archival Information System model and other international standards, together with the system’s open interfaces, will enable us to integrate Rosetta with our existing library systems. Taking this step towards a live system is an important strategic milestone for Goportis. By supporting an effective and powerful national infrastructure for long-term preservation, the TIB and its partners have become leading protagonists and a driving force in this field.”

“The decision by the prestigious German National Library of Science and Technology to adopt Rosetta reaffirms the leading role of Ex Libris in facilitating preservation of digital collections,” observed Ullrich Jüngling, Ex Libris vice president of sales for Central and East Europe. “Our collaboration will enable both of our organizations to see new and interesting perspectives on the field of long-term digital preservation, in particular the preservation of audio-visual materials.”

About the German National Library of Science and Technology

The TIB is the German National Library for all areas of engineering as well as architecture, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics and is in these areas the largest library in the world. To optimise its services, the TIB conducts applied research and development where the focus lies on visual search, visualising data, future Internet and semantic web. The TIB portal GetInfo bundles access to leading subject databases, publishing house offerings and library catalogues with integrated full text delivery. The TIB focuses on strategic partnerships, both at the national and international level. An important national network is the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information, also known as Goportis, which consists of the TIB, the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED), and the German National Library of Economics (ZBW). Goportis endeavors to bundle knowledge in fields as digital preservation, open access, non-textual materials, licenses, and full text service, and to initiate further developments.

For more information, see http://www.tib-hannover.de/en/ and http://www.goportis.de/en.html.

About Ex Libris
Ex Libris is a leading provider of automation solutions for academic libraries. Offering the only comprehensive product suite for electronic, digital, and print materials, Ex Libris provides efficient, user-friendly products that serve the needs of libraries today and will facilitate their transition into the future. Ex Libris maintains an impressive customer base consisting of thousands of sites in more than 80 countries on six continents.

Dedicated to developing creative solutions in close collaboration with customers, Ex Libris enables academic, national, and research libraries to maximize productivity and efficiency and, at the same time, greatly enhance the user experience. By empowering users to discover and obtain the information they need, libraries ensure their position as the bridge to knowledge.

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Press Release: Ex Libris [May 10, 2010]

Copyright (c) 2010 Ex Libris

Jerusalem, Israel — May 10, 2010. Ex Libris Group is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of the Rosetta digital preservation system. Rosetta empowers libraries and archives around the world to fulfill their mandate of collecting and preserving cumulative knowledge in digital format for the enjoyment and use of generations to come. Now live at the National Library of New Zealand, version 2.0 will be rolled out to all Rosetta customers over the course of 2010.

The Rosetta digital preservation system enables institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to documents in perpetuity—institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, Web sites, and other digitized and digitally born materials. Rosetta supports the acquisition, validation, ingest, storage, preservation, and dissemination of digital objects that are in various formats and originate from many sources, and keeps these objects secure while allowing institutions to implement multiple digital preservation policies and strategies.

Scalability is a key facet of version 2.0, enabling institutions to preserve an ever growing amount of digital material. Rosetta has already successfully ingested, processed, and stored more than 50 million records and can scale up to support even larger collections.

Highlights of the new Rosetta version include:

• Preservation planning and actions: Conforming to the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) standard, Rosetta enables institutions to manage objects in multiple digital formats, detect and mitigate format-related risks, and perform a variety of preservation actions.
• Digital format library: Based on the PRONOM global digital format registry, the Rosetta format library enables institutions to add and manage formats and to identify risks for all formats.
• Access rights exceptions: Rosetta enables libraries to create exceptions and temporary changes to institutional policies that determine users’ access rights.
• Enhanced plug-in management: The new Rosetta plug-in manager provides libraries with enhanced control over selected aspects of the system. Users can easily embed self-developed or third-party plug-ins for the extraction of metadata , the identification of preservation risks, and other purposes.
• Versioning of objects: By storing all versions of digital objects in a permanent repository, Rosetta enables institutions to restore specific object versions when necessary.

"Rosetta’s digital preservation technology provides the essential software for our digital preservation program," commented Steve Knight, program director of preservation research and consultancy at the National Library of New Zealand. "Having completed the beta testing of this new version, we are delighted to have gone live with Rosetta 2.0. The many enhancements added to version 2.0—including preservation planning and actions and the library of digital formats and risk detectors—are a major boost to our digital preservation program, which is now in its second successful year."

Ido Peled, Rosetta product manager at Ex Libris, noted: "Version 2.0 is a major milestone for Ex Libris, and we are thrilled to see it in action at the National Library of New Zealand. As with all our new product versions, we worked closely with Rosetta customers to identify the essential features for this version. As more institutions around the world join the expanding Rosetta customer community, we are looking forward to collaborating with them to shape future versions of Rosetta."

About Ex Libris

Ex Libris is a leading provider of automation solutions for academic, national, and research libraries. Offering the only comprehensive product suite for electronic, digital, and print materials, Ex Libris provides efficient, user-friendly products that serve the needs of libraries today and will facilitate their transition into the future. Ex Libris maintains an impressive customer base consisting of thousands of sites in more than 75 countries on six continents.

Dedicated to developing creative solutions in close collaboration with customers, Ex Libris enables libraries to maximize productivity and efficiency and, at the same time, greatly enhance the user experience. By empowering users to discover and obtain the information they need, libraries ensure their position as the bridge to knowledge.