Staying Informed
It can be difficult to stay in-touch with the many on-going projects and initiatives, two good monthly newsletters are:
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/
It can be difficult to stay in-touch with the many on-going projects and initiatives, two good monthly newsletters are:
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/
Links
The following are a few of the current organisations, projects etc that we have been following:
Bodelian Library
Details of the Paradigm Project (2005-2007) and its successor futureArch (2008-2011) which like the AIMS project is also funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Follow the project via their futureArch blog
Digital Forensics, Stanford University Libraries
http://lib.stanford.edu/digital-forensics includes Michael Olson’s blog
Digital Curation Centre
The Digital Curation Centre is the UK’s leading centre of expertise in digital data curation including its curation lifecycle model and a blog
Digital Curation Exchange
http://www.digitalcurationexchange.org
Digital Lives Research Project
Based at the British Library this project is concerned with personal digital collections includes a blog
Digital Preservation Coalition
The Digital Preservation Coalition was established in 2001 to foster joint action to address the challenges of digital preservation and includes “Selection of Digital Materials for Long-term Retention Decision Tree”
Gloucestershire Archives
Details of its current digital curation work including GAiP an ingest package they have developed
Hull History Centre
Details of the current work and the collaboration and dissemination being undertaken at Hull.
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/hatii/
Internet Archive
Established in 1996 the Internet Archive has captured snapshots of an estimated 150bn webpage with its Wayback Machine providing access to the sites
Library of Congress
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/
Parliamentary Archives
Informative pages including links to policy, strategy and decision tree
PLANETS
Major 4 year project (2006-1010) funded through the European Union to address core digital preservation challenges including PLATO (planning tool) and testbed. This work will be continued by the Open Planets Foundation
Preservation of Web Resources
UK based project funded by JISC created a handbook (Nov 2008) to highlight current trends in this area and includes links to related news, blogs and events
The National Archives [UK] Comprehensive suite of pages about digital preservation at TNA including PRONOM, Digital Continuity project and links to the UK Government Web Archive
UK Web Archive Service hosted by the British Library that has been collecting UK websites since 2004
University of London Computer Centre Details about the Centre’s activities and projects including a blog by the Centre’s Digital Archives staff
Wellcome Library, Digital Curation Includes information about its digital curation toolbox including curation workflow
Digital Curation Exchange
http://www.digitalcurationexchange.org
Digital Lives Research Project
Based at the British Library this project is concerned with personal digital collections includes a blog
Digital Preservation Coalition
The Digital Preservation Coalition was established in 2001 to foster joint action to address the challenges of digital preservation and includes “Selection of Digital Materials for Long-term Retention Decision Tree”
Gloucestershire Archives
Details of its current digital curation work including GAiP an ingest package they have developed
Hull History Centre
Details of the current work and the collaboration and dissemination being undertaken at Hull.
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/hatii/
Internet Archive
Established in 1996 the Internet Archive has captured snapshots of an estimated 150bn webpage with its Wayback Machine providing access to the sites
Library of Congress
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/
Parliamentary Archives
Informative pages including links to policy, strategy and decision tree
PLANETS
Major 4 year project (2006-1010) funded through the European Union to address core digital preservation challenges including PLATO (planning tool) and testbed. This work will be continued by the Open Planets Foundation
Preservation of Web Resources
UK based project funded by JISC created a handbook (Nov 2008) to highlight current trends in this area and includes links to related news, blogs and events
The National Archives [UK] Comprehensive suite of pages about digital preservation at TNA including PRONOM, Digital Continuity project and links to the UK Government Web Archive
UK Web Archive Service hosted by the British Library that has been collecting UK websites since 2004
University of London Computer Centre Details about the Centre’s activities and projects including a blog by the Centre’s Digital Archives staff
Wellcome Library, Digital Curation Includes information about its digital curation toolbox including curation workflow
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