DPC members are invite to pick their winners for the Digital Preservation Award 2010.
The polls open at 1200 on Thursday 7th October and close at 1700 on Wednesday 20th October. During this two week period, the entire membership of the coalition will be invited to select their winner from the shortlist announced in Vienna in September. For more information including a link to the voting form see the brief announcement on the DPC website at: http://bit.ly/cpt6IK
The Shortlist for the Digital Preservation Award 2010 includes the following:
The MEMENTO Project: Time Travel for the Web, from Old Dominion University and the Los Alamos National Lab in the United States (http://mementoweb.org/)
Web Continuity: ensuring access to online government information, from The National Archives UK (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/)
PLATO 3: Preservation Planning made simple from Vienna University of Technology and the PLANETS Project
(http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/plato/intro.html)
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
(http://brtf.sdsc.edu/)
Preserving Virtual Worlds, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Maryland, Stanford University and Linden Lab in the United States
(http://pvw.illinois.edu/pvw/)
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Dr William Kilbride FSA
Executive Director
Digital Preservation Coalition
44 (0)141 330 4522
http://www.dpconline.org/
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