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The Digital Preservation Coalition <http://www.dpconline.org/> and Charles
Beagrie Limited <http://www.beagrie.com> are delighted to announce a
collaboration to produce 5 new DPC Technology Watch Reports. The
collaboration follows a DPC call for proposals issued in December last year
and selection of Charles Beagrie Limited as the preferred bidder.
The collaboration will produce a series of 5 Technology Watch Reports over
the next 12 months under the general supervision of an editorial board and
Neil Beagrie as principal investigator and commissioning editor. The 5
proposed reports and their authors are as follows:
* Preserving Email
Chris Prom
* Preserving Moving Picture and Sound Richard Wright
* Intellectual Property Rights for Preservation Andrew
Charlesworth
* Digital Forensics and Preservation Jeremy
Leighton John
* Trust in Post Cancellation Access Services Neil Beagrie
The DPC is establishing an editorial board for the series. It will be
chaired by William Kilbride, Executive Director of the DPC.
The collaboration represents an exciting new development for the DPC and
Charles Beagrie Ltd and the opportunity is being taken to re-vamp the design
and layout of the new series. Content outlines for individual reports will
be shared with DPC members and shaped by their needs and requirements. DPC
members will have a period of privileged advance access to each report prior
to wider public release.
The DPC Technology Watch Report series
<http://www.dpconline.org/advice/technology-watch-reports> was established
in 2002 and has been one of the Coalition's most enduring contributions to
the wider digital preservation community. They exist to provide
authoritative support and foresight to those engaged with digital
preservation or having to tackle digital preservation problems for the first
time. These publications support members work forces, they identify
disseminate and discuss best practices and they lower the barriers to
participation in digital preservation.
'Each 'Technology Watch Report' analyses a particular topic in digital
preservation, evaluating workable solutions, and investigating new tools and
techniques appropriate for different contexts,' explained William Kilbride
of the DPC. 'The reports are written by leaders-in-the-field and are
peer-reviewed prior to publication. The intended audience is worldwide,
especially in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, USA, and Canada.'
'We expect that these reports will have a wide readership,' explained Neil
Beagrie, the commissioning editor. 'The audience includes members and
non-members of the coalition; staff of commercial and public agencies;
repository managers, librarians and archivists charged with managing
electronic resources; senior staff and executives of intellectual property
organizations in the private and public sectors; those who teach and train
information scientists; as well as policy advisors requiring an advanced
introduction to specific issues and researchers developing DP solutions.'
Further publicity on each report in the series will be released over the
course of the next 12 months to DPC members and the wider community. The
draft outline of contents for the first report - Preserving Email - has
already been compiled and will be distributed shortly.
. To find out more about the DPC and its Technology Watch series,
including the current ones in the set, see:
http://www.dpconline.org/advice/technology-watch-reports
. For more about Charles Beagrie Ltd, see: http://www.beagrie.com/
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