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Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------- Issue no. 9 (July - December 2004) of the DPC/PADI "What's New in Digital Preservation" bulletin is now available from the Digital Preservation Coalition Web site and the National Library of Australia's PADI Web site: Digital Preservation Coalition: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/ National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/qdigest/dec2004.html "What's New" is a summary of selected recent activity in the field of digital preservation, compiled by Michael Day of UKOLN, University of Bath, and Gerard Clifton of the National Library of Australia. Items are compiled from the Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) Gateway and the digital-preservation and padiforum-l mailing lists, although additional or related items of interest may also be included. Issue 9 features news on grants awarded by the US National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress and the UK Joint Information Systems Committee, and includes news from the UK Digital Curation Centre, Digital Preservation Coalition, ERPANET, and the Harvard-MIT Data Center. Specific activities noted include developments in Web archiving techniques and tools, updates on the preservation metadata work of PREMIS, and a range of approaches to managing and preserving file formats. Notes and links to the recently released National Library of New Zealand's Metadata Extraction tool and the National Archives of Australia's XENA (XML Electronic Normalising of Archives) tool are provided. The bulletin also includes summaries of other selected recent publications and information on past and forthcoming events. Kind regards, Michael Day ---------------------------------------------------------- Research Officer UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0)1225 383923 Fax: +44 (0)1225 386838 ----------------------------------------------------------