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From: Susan E Thomas
Sent: 09 January 2013 13:33
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Subject: New report released: Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories

[Apologies for cross-posting]

In 2011, an international group of ten archivists and special collections curators gathered for the first of a series of conversations about how born-digital materials are acquired and transferred to archival repositories. The resulting report, Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories, offers recommendations to help ensure the physical and intellectual well being of digital media and files during different stages of the acquisition process.

A draft of Born Digital has been published with MediaCommons Press, an innovative online publisher committed to open public review, and is currently open for your comments: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/borndigital/

We invite you to read the report, share your thoughts via the easy-to-use commenting interface, and take part in a discussion with the larger community of people concerned about the acquisition and preservation of born-digital materials. Your feedback will provide an important level of peer review as the report’s co-authors continue revising and preparing Born Digital for final publication.

If you have any questions about the report, please contact Gabby Redwine at [log in to unmask]

Susan Thomas

Digital Archivist/Project Manager

Bodleian Library

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