Similar Articles |
|
Information Today July 17, 2008 |
New Report on Copyright Law and Digital Preservation The Library of Congress, through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) has issued a joint report on the impact of copyright law on digital preservation. |
D-Lib June 2006 Abby Smith |
Distributed Preservation in a National Context: NDIIPP at Mid-point A summary of the progress of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program - five and a half years after its inception. |
Information Today May 12, 2008 Paula J. Hane |
LC Works to Make Collections Accessible and Compelling The venerable Library of Congress (LC), has been leading the way with some exciting digital preservation projects and working with leading multimedia partners on innovative projects. |
Information Today May 28, 2015 |
Library of Congress Updates Website With New Interface and Web Archive Content This is the first big content release since June 2013, and it comes with a simplified interface and similarities to web archives at other institutions. |
Information Today June 1, 2010 |
LC and Columbia University to Develop Geospatial Data-Preservation Clearinghouse The Library's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program will fund development of the clearinghouse at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia's Earth Institute. CIESIN will launch a beta version of the clearinghouse later this year. |
D-Lib May 2003 Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history |
Information Today November 6, 2014 |
Library of Congress Releases Digital Preservation Survey Results The survey explores the state of digital preservation practice and how organizations and professionals can do preservation work. |
Information Today September 24, 2007 |
New Digital Preservation and Access Task Force Formed The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation are funding a blue-ribbon task force to address the issue of economic sustainability for digital preservation and persistent access. |
Information Today March 18, 2010 Barbara Quint |
Digital Preservation Guidance From Blue Ribbon Task Force The technological challenges to long-term retention of digital content are great, but perhaps even greater are the economic and institutional challenges. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Lavoie & Dempsey |
Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation Fulfilling the promise of integrated and readily accesible material requires the cultivation of stakeholder communities that meaningfully engage with digital information environments. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2008 Brian F. Lavoie |
The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation How do we ensure that digital preservation activities survive beyond the current availability of soft-money funding? |
Information Today January 6, 2015 |
Library of Congress Seeks Applications for National Digital Stewardship Residency The Library of Congress' digital preservation blog, The Signal, announced the official open call for applications for the 2015-2016 National Digital Stewardship Residency. |
D-Lib November 2000 Lynne Brindley |
Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century It is at this very time of success that the British Library needs to turn to, and accelerate its engagement with, the critical and transformational issues associated with the digital world and the new demands being made by our wide range of users and stakeholders... |
D-Lib February 2007 H.M. Gladney |
Digital Preservation in a National Context: Questions and Views of an Outsider Today's National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program is focused on cultural content similar to traditional research library holdings, with little attention to preserving practical information critical to most social infrastructure and of interest to most citizens. |
Information Today December 18, 2008 |
Task Force Issues Interim Report on Digital Preservation and Access This report cites an urgent need to identify sustainable economic models to provide access to the ever-growing amount of digital information. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2011 Li & Banach |
Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries Digital preservation is a significant problem facing libraries. Libraries are struggling with how to preserve the scholarly and cultural record now that this information is increasingly being produced in digital formats. |
D-Lib April 2003 Searle & Thompson |
Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand |
Information Today November 28, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Library of Congress Launches Global "Rare Book" Digitization Project with Google Donation The Library of Congress' emerging "megalibrary" is getting a virtual "rare books" room thanks to Google. |
D-Lib April 2002 Bonita Wilson |
A Word to the Web Wise Those who are planning collaborative digital library projects might do well to make time to read this year's WebWise Proceedings... |
D-Lib April 2002 Amy Friedlander |
The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program Expectations, realities, choices and progress to date... |
Information Today July 16, 2009 |
Library of Congress and DuraSpace Launch Cloud Technologies Pilot Program They will launch a 1-year pilot program to test the use of cloud technologies to enable perpetual access to digital content. |
D-Lib January 2002 Hilary Berthon |
Safekeeping A cooperative approach to building a digital preservation resource... |
D-Lib October 2000 James J. O'Donnell |
LC21 - Hopes and Cautions for the Library of Congress It is the Library of Congress's fate to be a symbol as well as a library... |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Neil Beagrie |
The Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Ultimately, digital preservation will be successful when it can be seen not as a stand alone institutional activity but as an activity embedded in how institutions manage and approach digital information and resources on an ongoing basis. |
Information Today August 13, 2013 Barbara Quint |
A Digital Starting Point for Preserving News Many libraries and museums, historical societies, commercial publishers, and the like, have started taking responsibility for the digital archiving of newspapers and born-digital news sources. |
D-Lib March 2004 Catherine Ayre & Adrienne Muir |
The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation The Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) project, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, ran from September 2002 to March 2004. The project's aim was to investigate whether and how copyright legislation and licensed access to digital content affect the ability of libraries to provide long-term access to that content, and to suggest solutions for any problems identified. |
D-Lib April 2004 Brian F. Lavoie |
Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity This article discusses the objectives, current status, and future activities of PREMIS, an expert working group focused on the topic of implementing preservation metadata within digital archiving systems. |
Information Today March 5, 2012 Victoria McCargar |
Viewshare: Up Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures Back in November 2011, the Library of Congress blogged about a new online service called Viewshare, a web domain where cultural heritage institutions can show off their digital treasures free of charge. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 Bishoff & Smith |
Managing Digital Collections Survey Results In spring 2014, DuraSpace commissioned The Bishoff Group to conduct a survey of the digital collection management practices performed by academic libraries that are not members of the Association of Research Libraries. |
D-Lib October 2007 |
In Brief EMC Heritage Trust Project Awards... Investigating overlay journals: introducing the RIOJA Project... Bungee View: An open-source visualization-based interface to search, browse, and data-mine image collections... etc. |
Information Today April 23, 2012 Miriam A. Drake |
Federal Depository Library Program: Legislative Issues The program is the subject of a report released by the Congressional Research Service: "Federal Depository Library Program: Issues for Congress" that includes a brief history of the program and a discussion on some key issues. |
D-Lib December 2006 Cindy Boeke |
IPRES 2006 Conference Report: Digital Preservation Takes Off in the E-Environment Giving the need for long-term digital storage is the attention it deserves. |
D-Lib February 2002 Stewart Granger |
Digital Preservation and Deep Infrastructure Institutions should adopt both a pragmatic approach and a strategic approach to preservation of digital data. |
D-Lib February 2001 Kenneth Thibodeau |
Building the Archives of the Future Advances in Preserving Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration... |
Information Today January 14, 2010 |
Ex Libris Announces the Beta Release of Rosetta Version 2.0 The system enables institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to documents for perpetuity-institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, websites, and other digitally born and digitized materials. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Theron Westervelt |
Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Encouraging Preservation Without Discouraging Creation The Library of Congress has devised the Recommended Format Specifications to enable it to identify what formats will most easily lend themselves to preservation and long-term access, especially with regard to digital formats. |
D-Lib April 2002 Neil Beagrie |
An Update on The Digital Preservation Coalition This article reports on its progress and how the DPC aims to develop a UK digital preservation agenda within an international context... |
D-Lib August 2006 Carolyn Hank |
Digital Curation and Trusted Repositories, Seeking Success: JCDL 2006 Workshop Report A workshop entitled "Digital Curation and Institutional Repositories: Seeking Success" was used to discuss models and practices for evaluating digital repository trustworthiness and success. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 |
In Brief BioMed Central expands with PhysMath Central... Announcing public release of DAITSS... JISC sponsors Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year Award... etc. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 von Suchodoletz et al. |
Report on the First iPres Workshop on Practical Emulation Tools and Strategies The International Conference on Digital Preservation is an established annual event bringing together practitioners and researchers in the digital preservation community, engaging individuals, organizations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in digital libraries. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Seamus Ross |
The Role of ERPANET in Supporting Digital Curation and Preservation in Europe While Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPNET) plans to continue playing a part in satisfying the need for reliable knowledge about digital preservation methods and practices and high quality research, the team recognises that many more organisations of this kind are needed for the development of effective preservation capabilities across public, commercial, and consumer sectors. |
Information Today June 23, 2015 Corilee Christou |
Finding a Librarian of Congress for the Digital Age It's time to move on and finally hire, first and foremost, a Librarian of Congress with the appropriate library degree and experience. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 |
Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional Repositories: Towards Distributed Services Distributed preservation services require further investigation about the interaction of service providers and client repositories. While there may be some emerging consensus on the range of services that may be needed, the primary requirement is for market testing conditions. |
D-Lib August 2007 |
In Brief Award-Winning TPAP Digital Preservation Prototype Keeps Growing... Excerpts from Recent Press Releases and Announcements... ALA sends three resolutions to Congress in support of GPO, NLS, NDIIPP... |
Information Today May 14, 2012 |
Ex Libris Announces the Launch of Rosetta 3.0 Rosetta is a digital preservation system, which provides a new user interface, advanced search options, a collection management module, and other management and preservation features. |
D-Lib December 2003 |
Clips and Pointers It's About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-term Preservation... Evaluation of Digital Cultural Content: Analysis of evaluation material... Networked Data Services; Towards a Future Data Infrastructure for the Social Sciences in the Netherlands... etc. |
Information Today July 30, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser |
Preserving Our Digital World (#digpres2013) Organized by the Library of Congress, #digpres2013 brought scores of archivists, librarians, and information specialists together to explore solutions to the challenges of stewarding digital content over the long-term. |
D-Lib October 2002 Fox et al. |
Toward a Global Digital Library: Generalizing US-Korea Collaboration on Digital Libraries A report on recommendations to remove barriers to worldwide development of digital libraries, drawing upon an August 2000 workshop involving researchers from the US and Korea who met at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2015 Goethals et al. |
Facing the Challenge of Web Archives Preservation Collaboratively: The Role and Work of the IIPC Preservation Working Group This article documents goals and activities of the IIPC Preservation Working Group, such as a survey about the current state of preservation in member web archives and a number of collaborative projects. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 Becker & Cardoso |
Report on the Capability Assessment and Improvement Workshop (CAIW) at iPres 2013 To provide an interactive, focused venue for those interested in systematic approaches for assessment and improvement, we organized the first Capability Assessment and Improvement Workshop in Lisbon, on September 5, 2013, as part of the 10th International Conference on Digital Preservation |