Apologies for any cross-posting
Issue no. 7 (October 2003 - January 2004) of the DPC/PADI "Whats New in
Digital Preservation" quarterly bulletin is now available from the Digital
Preservation Coalition (DPC) and National Library of Australia (NLA)
websites at:
DPC:
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/
NLA:
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/qdigest/feb2004.html
'What's New' is a summary of selected recent activity in the field of
digital preservation - compiled by Michael Day of UKOLN, University of
Bath, and Gerard Clifton of the National Library of Australia. Items are
taken from the Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) Gateway and
the digital-preservation and padiforum-l mailing lists, although
additional items of interest are also included.
Issue 7 features news from a wide range of organisations and initiatives,
including the UK Digital Curation Centre, the Australian Research
Information Infrastructure Committee, the NESTOR Network of Expertise in
long-term Storage of digital Resources, the World Summit on the
Information Society and the European Union's 6th Framework Programme.
The digest also includes links to recent major reports, such as those of
the NSF-DELOS Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation and the
US National Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, as well
as reports from the JISC Supporting Institutional Records Management
Program.
Specific topics covered by this issue include: Web archiving, file formats
and tools, preservation metadata, legal issues, institutional
repositories, e-prints and e-journals, and digital library futures.
Finally, the bulletin also includes summaries of other selected recent
publications and information on past and forthcoming events.
Michael Day
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Research Officer
UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)1225 383923 Fax: +44 (0)1225 386838
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European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004),
Bath, UK, 12-17 September 2004: http://www.ecdl2004.org/
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