Report from the NEDLIB workshop 15th December 2000 - Setting up Deposit 
Systems for Electronic Publications (DSEP)

Over 90 people from across Europe and a number of delegates from further 
afield including Australia and the United States attended this workshop at 
the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) in The Hague to mark the end of the NEDLIB 
research project and celebrate its results. NEDLIB is an EU funded 
collaborative project of European national libraries researching digital 
preservation and the basic infrastructure upon which a networked European 
digital deposit library can be built. 

The workshop offered library and archive staff the possibility to learn from 
and communicate with the NEDLIB partners about the project results. The 
programme covered deposit design and modelling work, web-archiving, practical 
guidelines for deposit libraries, standards for e-publishing, digital 
preservation strategies and technical solutions. The programme addressed two 
different target groups:

·   Managers (Heads of relevant library departments, such as Preservation 
Departments and ICT Departments; Project Managers of Digital Library 
Programmes)     
·   Technical experts (staff Research & ICT Dept; Digital Collections 
Management) 

Six publications are being produced to disseminate work from the NEDLIB 
project. Three of these are already available from the project website at 
http://www.kb.nl/coop/nedlib/tabel.shtml
 
·   An Experiment in Using Emulation to preserve Digital Publications / by 
Jeff Rothenberg, RAND-Europe. - Den Haag : Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 2000. - 
(NEDLIB Report series ; 1). - ISBN 90-62-59-1442

·   Metadata for Long Term Preservation / by Catherine Lupovici and Julien 
Masanès, Bibliothèque Nationale de France. - Den Haag : Koninklijke 
Bibliotheek, 2000. - (NEDLIB Report series ; 2).

·   Standards for Electronic Publishing: an overview / by Mark Bide & 
Associates - Den Haag : Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 2000 - (NEDLIB Report series 
; 3).

and a further three will be available in the New Year.

Presentations from the workshop will also be of interest to members of the 
digital-preservation list and are being made available from the following URL 
:

http://www.kb.nl/coop/nedlib/workshop/presentations.shtml


Neil Beagrie
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