Case Study of Digital Preservation for E-heritage: Digital Preservation Project for the Collection of Penhas Family

Abstract

Digital Preservation for E-heritage is one of the most important embranchment in the area of digital longevity in term of archival or heritage preservation. Currently, most digital preservation methodologies or principles are stands on the point of theory stage, seldom are taken into practice(almost practical ones were governmental supported at national level). For the goal of majority of archives institutions, a practical project was achieved at small scale extend within this paper. The archival criteria (EVACC mode, EAD metadata for collection appraisal and description) and technological implementation (software and Huffman algorithm for final product and search function), integrated as a comprehensive solution, was applied and experimented. Thus, it went through the whole procedure of which is significant for current and future study.