An Overview of Portico: An Electronic Archiving Service

Serials Review

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 81-86

  Fenton, Eileen Gifford ^a  

^a Portico   (United States)

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EID: 33745214907     PISSN: 00987913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.serrev.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Average 2003-04 library expenditures for electronic materials was $2,718,015. See Mark Young and Martha Kyrillidou, ARL Statistics 200304 (Washington: Association of Research Libraries, 2005).
2. www.arl.org/arl/pr/presvejrnloct05.html (accessed March 13, 2006).
3. Publishers participating in the Portico pilot included: the American Economic Association, American Mathematical Society, American Political Science Association, Association of Computing Machinery, Blackwell, Ecological Society of America, National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Royal Society, University of Chicago Press, and John Wiley & Sons.
4. http://www.rlg.org/legacy/longterm/repositories.pdf (accessed February 28, 2006).
5. Migration involves transitioning content from one file format to another as technology evolves and file formats become obsolete. Two other common preservation strategies include emulation, which involves strategies to make future technology mimic technology of earlier generations, and byte preservation, which involves simple storage of an unmodified stream of digital bytes without special provision for future display or functionality.
6. Details of the Journal Archiving and Interchange Document Type Definition created by the National Center for Biotechnology Information of the National Library of Medicine are available at http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/ (accessed March 13, 2006).
7. Additional details regarding Portico's archival approach are available from Evan Owens, "A Format-Registry-Based Automated Workflow for the Ingest and Preservation of Electronic Journals," (Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Charlottesville, VA, November 8, 2005), http://www.portico.org/about/community.html (accessed March 13, 2006).
8. http://www.arl.org/osc/EjournalPreservation_Final.pdf (accessed March 13, 2006).
9. The members of the Portico Advisory Committee are: John Ewing, American Mathematical Society; Kevin Guthrie, Ithaka; Daniel Greenstein, University of California; Anne R. Kenney, Cornell University; Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information; Carol Mandel, New York University; David M. Pilachowski, Williams College; Rebecca Simon, University of California Press; Michael Spinella, JSTOR; Suzanne Thorin, Syracuse University; Mary Waltham, www.MaryWaltham.com; Craig Van Dyck, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.