  Preservation pipelines demonstrate extended value when digitized content is
also computation ready. Expanding this to historical controlled vocabularies
published in analog format requires additional steps if they are to be fully
leveraged for research. This paper reports on work addressing this challenge.
We report on a pipeline and project progress addressing three key goals: 1)
transforming the 1910 Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to the Simple
Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) linked data standard, 2) implementing
persistent identifiers (PIDs) and launching our prototype ARK resolver, and 3)
importing the 1910 LCSH into the Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary
Engineering (HIVE) System to support automatic metadata generation and
scholarly analysis of the historical record. The discussion considers the
implications of our work in the broader context of preservation, and the
conclusion summarizes our work and identifies next steps.
