Long-term preservation

The days when the „archive“ of the Munich DigitizationCenter consisted of a wooden locker with a few hundred CD-ROMs are long gone. The result of an intensive work on the subject long-term preservation is the automatic archiving and retrieval solution for all electronic publications located at the Bavarian State Library, which has been in use since 2004 in cooperation with the Leibniz-Computing Center. The Librarian Archiving and Retrieval System (Bibliothekarisches Archivierungs- und Bereitstellungssystem BABS), the result of a DFG project, has been in operation since 2007. The current organisational and technical infrastructure is in continuously expanded and improved. It allows an efficient and mostly automatic processing and archiving of the data as well as its use from existing catalogues and portals.

More about the long-term preservation activities on our special website: