Everything about Database preservation

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Database preservationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: 3D technologies for intangible cultural heritage preservation—literature review for selected databasesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Long-term preservation of digital documentsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: UTexas Aptamer Database: the collection and long-term preservation of aptamer sequence informationCited 53 times
5. Go sideways: Apache Empire-dbA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Outline of databasesA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• UTexas Aptamer Database: the collection and long-term preservation of aptamer sequence information

  Ali Askari, Sumedha Kota, Hailey Ferrell · 2023 · Nucleic Acids Research · 53 citations

• Privacy Preservation in Database Applications: A Survey

  Shui-Geng ZHOU, Feng LI, Yu-Fei TAO · 2009 · Chinese Journal of Computers · 48 citations

• Location Privacy Preservation in Database-Driven Wireless Cognitive Networks Through Encrypted Probabilistic Data Structures

  Mohamed Grissa, Attila A. Yavuz, Bechir Hamdaoui · 2017 · IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking · 26 citations

• A Quantum-Based Database Query Scheme for Privacy Preservation in Cloud Environment

  Wenjie Liu, Peipei Gao, Zhihao Liu · 2019 · Security and Communication Networks · 10 citations

• Incidence and Complications of Open Hip Preservation Surgery: An ABOS Database Review

  Jon Hedgecock, P. Christopher Cook, John Harrast · 2017 · Orthopedics · 9 citations

• Myocardial preservation methods in isolated minimal invasive mitral valve surgery: Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) database outcomes

  Dan Loberman, Marc P. Pelletier, Farchang Yazdchi · 2019 · Journal of Cardiac Surgery · 9 citations

• SEH-SDB: a semantically enriched historical spatial database for documentation and preservation of monumental heritage based on CityGML

  Reda Yaagoubi, Abdulkader Al-Gilani, Ahmad Baik · 2018 · Applied Geomatics · 9 citations

• EXFOR-NSR PDF database: a system for nuclear knowledge preservation and data curation

  V.V. Zerkin, B. Pritychenko, J. Totans · 2022 · Journal of Instrumentation · 8 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• 3D technologies for intangible cultural heritage preservation—literature review for selected databases

  Maria Skublewska-Paszkowska, Marek Milosz, Pawel Powroznik · 2022 · Heritage Science · 283 citations

• Hybrid optimization‐based privacy preservation of database publishing in cloud environment

  Kingsleen Solomon Doss, Somasundaram Kamalakkannan · 2022 · Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience · 7 citations

• A global database of Mars-relevant hydrovolcanic environments on Earth with potential biosignature preservation

  Catheryn H. Ryan, Mariek E. Schmidt, Gordon R. Osinski · 2024 · Geosphere · 7 citations

• Clinical outcomes in people with diabetes‐related foot infections: Analysis from a limb preservation service infection database

  Matthew Malone, Emma Bergamin, Kenshin Hayashi · 2024 · Journal of Foot and Ankle Research · 5 citations

• Assessment of the role of pavement preservation in extending service life using the LTPP database

  Chukwunwike Okwuenu, Omar Elbagalati, Heather Dylla · 2025 · Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering · 2 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Long-term preservation of digital documentsUwe M. Borghoff, Peter Rödig · 2005
• Organize your digital lifeAimee Baldridge · 2009
• Selecting and managing electronic resourcesVicki L. Gregory, Ardis Hanson · 2000
• Collecting ExperimentsBruno J. Strasser · 2019
• Creating and documenting electronic textsAlan S. Morrison, Alan Morrison · 1999
• Database archivingJack E. Olson · 2009
• 📕The International ProjectHans Rütimann · 1989
• Database archiving · 2009

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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