apologies for any cross-posting
With thanks to Ulrich Tiedau for drawing this to the attention of the list.
The English website of the German DP initiative has just gone online at
http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/index.php?newlang=eng
A brief overview of the initiative is given below - further information is
available on the Website.
German Network of Expertise in Digital Preservation
The project's objective is to create a network of expertise in digital
preservation for Germany. As the perspective of current and future archive
users is central to the project, the emphasis is put on long-term
accessibility of digital resources and not that much on pure preservation
aspects.
Within the project among other things the following offers will be created:
a web-based information forum with information on different aspects of
long-term archiving and long-term accessibility of digital resources in
Germany, a platform for information and communication, criteria for trusted
digital repositories, recommendations for certification procedures of
digital repositories, recommendations for collecting guidelines and
selection criteria of digital resources to be archived, guidelines and
policies for the long-term preservation of digital resources, the concept
for a permanent organisation form of the "network of expertise in digital
preservation" and its information forum in Germany, a detailed plan laying
out the distributed responsibilities and the workflow between the network's
participating institutions.
The long-term goal is a permanent distributed infrastructure for long-term
preservation and long-term accessability of digital resources in Germany
comparable e.g. to the Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK.
The network, is a project of the German Federal Ministry for Education and
Research (BMBF) within its framework program "Innovation and Jobs for the
21st Century Information Society", lead-managed by the national library of
Germany, Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB) in Frankfurt. Apart from DDB, the
project group comprises the Bavarian State Library in Munich (BSB), the
University and State Library of Lower Saxony (SUB) in Goettingen, the
Computer and Media Service of Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB), the
Institute for Museum Studies (IFM) of the State Museums of Berlin (Prussian
Heritage) in Berlin and the Directorate-General of the Bavarian State
Archives (GDAB) in Munich. The network of expertise aims at collating the
expertise of all people active in the field of digital preservation in
Germany and cooperating internationally.
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