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apologies for any cross-posting The meeting report and presentations from the DPC Forum on Preservation of e-Learning Materials and Cost Models for Digital Preservation held on 15th October, 2002 are now available on the DPC website from: <A HREF="http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/index.html#elearning">http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/index.html#elearning</A> This was the fourth forum held by the Digital Preservation Coalition. The Forums aim to share experience from leading projects with DPC members organisations and to address topical issues in digital preservation. The issues addressed by the October forum were: The growth of distance learning and an increasing effort to digitise collections and package them for use in education in school, colleges, and universities, developing digital respositories and standards for managing learning objects Sustainability of digital collections, life-cycle costing for digital collections/digitisation in repositories, cost factors in long-term digital preservation ****************************************************************************** ******* Neil Beagrie JISC Digital Preservation Focus Programme Director Secretary, Digital Preservation Coalition JISC London Office, Tel/Fax/Voicemail :+44 (0)709 2048179 King's College London email: [log in to unmask] Strand Bridge House url: www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/ 138 - 142, The Strand, www.dpconline.org London WC2R 1HH email list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/digital-preservation.html ****************************************************************************** *******