Digital preservation at the National Library of Norway

The Digital Preservation Team at the National Library (NLN) has developed its first strategy for digital preservation. This strategy aims to steer, structure, and sharpen the focus of our digital preservation efforts over the coming two years. Strategy Design In developing the strategy, we aimed for writing a short and precise document. We wanted to avoid overwhelming the reader with a wall of text, or producing a verbose document that would be of little practical use....

Guide to setting up a Site-to-Site (S2S) communication between two secured NiFi instances with user and policy management. This guide is based on experiences from National Library of Norway. Where NiFi is used to process large number of files and data, and it’s important to have proper security in place. This guide aims to help others who might struggle with S2S on secured NiFi instances, and make it easier to set up a SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask or similar. Since we couldn’t find a guide that would help us with this task we decided to write one ourselves.

In June 2022 the IT Department established a team dedicated to preserving the National Library’s digital collection. This team handles all kinds of digital content, whether it’s digitized from physical sources or born digital. This includes media types like web pages, text documents, images, audio, and moving images. The team’s responsibilities involve ingesting, checking, storing, preserving, and providing access to high-quality digital files. We work closely with several other specialized media teams in the library....