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aDORe Archive
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library (Date Created: 18 May 2006) (United States of America)
The aDORe Archive is a write-once/read-many storage approach for Digital Object datastreams. The archive uses a combination of two file based storage systems- XML based files and ARC files. The aDORe software was developed by the LANL (Los Almos National Laboratory) Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team and was partly funded by an NDIIP grant from the Library of Congress. The website includes a tutorial and links to articles on the aDORe archive software.
http://african.lanl.gov/aDORe/projects/adoreArchive/
AktiveArchive
AktiveArchive (Regularly Updated) (Switzerland)
This is the website of AktiveArchives a research project begun in 2004 by the Hochschule der Künste, Bern (Berne University of the Arts) and the Schweizerischen Instituts für Kunstwissenschaft (Swiss Institute for Art Research). The project aims to research, document and preserve electronic artworks.
http://www.aktivearchive.ch/
Alliance for Permanent Access
(Date Created: 2006)
This collaborative group aims to develop a shared vision and infrastructure for the permanent access to scientific information in Europe.
http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.eu/
ANDS Australian National Data Service
ANDS (Date Created: Sep 2008) (Australia)
ANDS officiallycommenced in September 2008 with initial funding until 2011 from the Australian Commonwealth Government. It aims to influence policy in relation to data management in the Australian Research Community; inform best practice for the curation of data; and transform the disparate collections of research data around Australia into a cohesive network.
http://ands.org.au/
Archive-it
Internet Archive (Regularly Updated)
Archive-it is a subscription service established by the Internet Archive together with various partners from state archives and university libraries. It allows subscribers to build, manage and search their own unique web archive containing only the content they are interested in harvesting. This allows these collections to be more in depth and focussed on a particular area than the general Web archive. Archive-It collections have more functionality as they can be searched in full text, whereas the Internet Archive via the Wayback Machine, cannot be searched in this way. The website provides tours of the user interface and applications, an extensive list of FAQs and access to the archived collections of the pilot partners.
http://www.archive-it.org/
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Archivierung Digitaler Medien
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Regularly Updated) (Austria)
The Austrian National Library's electronic archiving web page. The text emphasises that permanent archiving of electronic publications is dependent on the enactment of effective legal deposit legislation. Links are made to the 2000 amendment to legal deposit law (the Novelle zum Mediengesetz), which extended the scope of the legislation to include offline media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs. The complications associated with the deposit and control of online publications are also addressed.
http://www.onb.ac.at/about/lza/
Archiving the Web Sites of Political Parties in Germany : a Joint Project of the Archives of Political Foundations Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft : Politisches Internet Archiv
Archiv de sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Date Created: 2006) (Germany)
Although this site is mostly in German there are some links to English reosources and similar projects.
http://www.fes.de/archiv/spiegelung/default.htm
Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica (Austria)
This organisation has several purposes, including the Ars Electronica Center, which is a Museum of the Future, a research and development facility, Ars Electronica Futurelab, a Laboratory for Future Innovations, and the Ars Electronica Archive. The Ars Electronica Archive features 25 years of digital media art.
http://www.aec.at/index_en.php
Arts and Humanities Data Service
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
AHDS is a national service to collect, describe and preserve the electronic resources which result from research and teaching in the humanities. One of its aims is to develop strategies for preserving digital cultural heritage.
http://ahds.ac.uk/
Audio Preservation
PARS Recording and Photographic Media Committee. Contributing Editor: Hannah Frost In: CoOL Conservation OnLine : Resources for Conservation Professionals (Regularly Updated)
A bibliography of resources on the preservation of sound recordings maintained on the Conservation Online (CoOL) website. The bibliography includes resources on care, handling and restoration of recorded materials, and best practice guidelines and standards for their preservation, including creation and preservation of digital audio recordings.
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/audio/
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Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)
Scholarly Technology Services, Australian National University (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
This project, funded by the Australian Dept. of Education, Science and Training, has five partners - the Australian National University, National Library of Australia, University of Queensland, University of Sydney and the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing. The aim of the project is to act as a centre of excellence for the management of scholarly assets in digital format. The project consists of four interlinked programs - digital continuity and sustainability, International linkages program, National Services Program and Practices and Testbed.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/index.html

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BCR's CDP Digital Toolbox
Collaborative Digitization Program (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Digital Toolbox is designed to guide administrators through the range of questions to ask in the initial planning stages of a digital project. It provides links to general information on digital projects and information on the technical aspects of digitisation. The Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP originally the Colorado Digitization Project) merged with BCR in April 2007.
http://www.bcr.org/cdp/digitaltb/index.html
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
University of California Berkeley Library and Sun Microsystems Inc. (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This site builds digital collections and services, as well as providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide. It includes links to: information for digital library developers on topics such as copyright, metadata, preservation and standards; digital library projects; tools for building digital libraries; and training for digital librarians.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
Historical Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web
McKiernan, Gerry (Last Updated: 22 Mar 2001)
Beyond Bookmarks is a clearinghouse of World Wide Web sites that have applied or adopted standard classification schemes or controlled vocabularies to organise or provide enhanced access to Internet resources.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/CTW.htm
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (Date Created: Sep 2007) (United States of America)
The Task Force was established in late 2007and funded by the National Science Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for two years, to address the critical issue of digital data preservation and its economic sustainability. Participating in the Task Force activities are the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the Joint Information Systems Committee of the United Kingdom. The web site includes links to news articles and a useful bibliography.
http://brtf.sdsc.edu/
BOA: Baden-Württembergisches Online-Archiv
(Regularly Updated) (Germany)
Established in 2006, the Baden-Württemberg Online Archive (BOA), collects and catalogues web resources on the German State of Baden-Württemberg, comprising a large collection of government websites. All resources are available online. The system is run by the Bibliotheksservice- Zentrum (Library Service Centre) Baden-Württemberg (BSZ), a support institution for libraries and archives. Two state libraries the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe, and the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart, and the archive Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg cooperate in archiving websites in this system.
http://www.boa-bw.de
BRICKS Community
(Date Created: 2004)
The BRICKS community is a worldwide federation of chultural heritage institutions, research organisations, technological and digital library service providers and digital co-operating to to create the BRICKS Cultural Heritage Network to foster European digital memory through the BRICKS project. The BRICKS project was funded 1 June 2004 to 30 June 2007.
http://www.brickscommunity.org/
British Library Preservation Advisory Centre
British Library (Date Created: Sep 2009) (United Kingdom)
The British Library Preservation Advisory Centre was formed in 2009 from the integration of the National Preservation Office and Collection Care Department. It intends to provide practical support on preservation management issues to UK library and archive collections, including training, assessment and resources.
http://www.bl.uk/npo/

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CACHe : Recovering Computer Arts Histories
University of London (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
CACHe was a 3-year research project founded in 2002 based at the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. The purpose of this project was to document, collect and provide access to British digital arts from the 1960s and 1970s.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/index.htm
Campus-based Publishing Resource Center
SPARC (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This website provides information on maintaining campus-based publishing partnerships and is intended for libraries, presses and academic units. Included are a guide, bibliography and resource list, case studies, listserv and intends to add FAQs, sample planning documents and an index of collaborative initiatives.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering
Historical Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (Regularly Updated) (Canada)
The Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (CIDL) was an alliance of Canadian libraries which promoted, coordinated and facilitated the development of Canadian digital collections and services in order to optimise national interoperability and long-term access to Canadian digital library resources. CIDL was dissolved on 31 March 2007 and was a forerunner of AlouetteCanada.
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/cidl-ef/2007-09-28/cidl/i
ndex-e.html
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Capturing Unstable Media
V2_ Organisation (Date Created: 2003) (Netherlands)
Developed by the V2_ Organisation, this project used two electronic art projects as case studies to focus on ways to capture and preserve electronic art independent of medium, including documentation, metadata and interoperability aspects. The project has resulted in a series of recommendations, including documentation guidelines and a formal model (ontology). The results of the project were added to the website in March 2004.
http://capturing.projects.v2.nl/
Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
A searchable database of some of the western illuminated manuscripts in the British Library. The Catalogue includes descriptions and images of western manuscripts with pictorial and decorative embellishments, from fully painted miniatures to decorated initials.
Contact: Caroline Brazier
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm
(Contributor: British Library )
CD Information Center
The CD-Info Company (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This site has information and links provided by the CD-Info Company and includes a glossary and a "technology overview".
http://www.cd-info.com/
CD-Recordable FAQ
McFadden, Andy (Regularly Updated)
This comprehensive document attempts to answer Frequently Asked Questions about CD-Recordable technology. It is updated regularly, and covers a broad range of issues.
http://www.cdrfaq.org/
Clearinghouse of Image Databases and the IMAGELIB listserv archives
Glogoff, S.; The University of Arizona Library (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This website includes a database which gathered technical and descriptive information about imaging projects as information resources and an associated listserv. The database includes brief descriptions of the projects and provides contact details for further information. The database began in 1994 and submissions were closed in August 2008 as no additions were received for a number of years. The database is still available for searching and the listserv continues.
http://elearn.arizona.edu/imagelib/
Collecting, Archiving and Exhibiting Digital Design Data
Fallon, Kristine (Last Updated: Oct 2007) (United States of America)
Initiated by the Department of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago and undertaken by Kristine Fallon and Associates, with funding from the Schiff Foundation and Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts the purpose of the study was to examine the collection, archiving, and uses of digital design data produced by architects and industrial designers. The results of the study are extensive and are divided into 25 files. Section two is of most relevance as it deals with archiving digital design data: practices and technology, including preparing, collecting, and processing the data and its cataloguing, storage, and preservation. The study's final recommendations cover the life cycle of a digital work of art, including: types and classification of data appropriate for collection; indexing and metadata; data formats (archival, native, and derivative); format registration; storage; long-term maintenance; periodic migration; format updates and disaster recovery provisions for digital originals; and techniques for and opportunities to provide digital archive access to a broader community. The project was finalised in Spring 2007 and it was decided to make the software which was developed DAArch software version 1.0 open source.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/depts/architecture/ddd.html
Commonwealth Records Management Web Pages
National Archives of Australia (Last Updated: 2007) (Australia)
The Records Management web pages provide information on the National Archives of Australia's policy and procedures for appraising, sentencing, transferring and disposing of Commonwealth government records. They also give advice on records management procedures, preservation issues and outsourcing work for all record formats including digital.
http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/index.aspx
Computer Game Museum : Das Computerspiele Museum
Das Computerspiele Museum (Regularly Updated) (Germany)
This is the website of the Computer Game Museum in Berlin, which is a museum of computer game hardware and software. The Web site is predominately in German, but there are links to articles in English.
http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/
Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL)
CURL (Last Updated: 2008) (United Kingdom)
CURL was a group of UK research libraries whose collective mission was "to promote, maintain and improve library resources for research, learning and teaching in research-led universities." CURL's objectives were: (1) to develop cooperative solutions to the tasks faced in the acquisition, processing, storage, preservation, exploitation, dissemination and delivery of information and library materials"; and (2) to assist member libraries to pursue and achieve their own institutional objectives. CURL's CEDARS project focussed on digital preservation issues. On 18 April 2008 after 25 years CURL was reformed as the Research Libraries U K (RLUK).
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/
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Historical Consultation on Online Publications
National Library of Canada (Last Updated: 2004) (Canada)
Consultation on Online Publications is an initiative of the National Library of Canada to bring together experts from various sectors of the Canadian publishing community with National Library staff, to discuss key issues that the National Library must address when collecting and providing access to online publications. This is a new website that will be updated as more information is available.
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/consultation_online_publi
cations-ef/8/7/index-e.html
CoOL Conservation OnLine : Resources for Conservation Professionals
Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation (Date Created: Feb 1993) (United States of America)
CoOL, was formerly a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries (1993-2009). It is a full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials. It includes sections on electronic media and records. In 2009 after Stanford University Libraries could no longer offer support, it is now operated by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation.
http://cool.conservation-us.org/
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Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation Home Page : CLDP Project
Loughborough University (Last Updated: 10 Mar 2004) (United Kingdom)
"The aim of the Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) research project is to investigate whether copyright legislation and licensed access to digital content threaten the ability of libraries to provide long-term access to that content and to suggest ways in which the problems can be overcome." The web site also provided links to the discussion paper "Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation project" and questionnaires which aimed to gauge the awareness of stakeholders of digital preservation issues and detail and identify any problems in this area.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/CLDP/index.htm
Copyright Matters : Information Sheets
Murdoch University (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
Written for staff and students at Murdoch University (Western Australia), these information sheets cover a wide variety of topics including 'Copying Text and Images from the Internet', 'Making Handouts for In-Class Teaching', and 'WebCT and Copyright Protected Material'. There are also summaries of general copyright information targeted toward the needs of particular groups (such as library staff).
http://www.murdoch.edu.au/copyright/infosheets.html
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) is a not-for-profit organisation which undertakes, fosters, and promotes research in the public interest. Its activities centre around strategic development of network-based information technologies. It produces D-Lib Magazine, and research areas include naming as in the Handle system, persistent identifiers as in DOI, digital libraries and objects.
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
Council on Library and Information Resources (Regularly Updated)
CLIR embraces the entire range of information resources and services, from traditional library and archival materials to emerging digital formats, and the entire network of organisations that gather, catalogue, store, preserve, distribute, and provide access to information. The CLIR Board of Directors has identified six areas, all focused on the long-term accessibility of scholarly resources, that deserve immediate attention: preservation awareness, resources for scholarship, digital libraries, economics of information, leadership and international developments.
http://www.clir.org/
Historical Creating a European Library Space; Telematics for Libraries - home page
European Commission (Last Updated: 28 Jan 2000)
The Telematics Programme aimed to facilitate access to knowledge held in libraries throughout the European Union while reducing disparities between national systems and practices. Topics covered included networking (OSI, Web), cataloguing (OPACs), resource discovery, imaging, multimedia (CD-ROM), distance learning, public libraries, music information, standards, copyright and policy coordination. Information on opportunities for libraries, museums, archives and related partners in connection with the Fifth Framework Programme is available from the Digital Heritage and Cultural Content site: http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/
http://www.cordis.lu/libraries/
Creating and Managing Digital Content
Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) (Date Created: 27 Apr 2002) (Canada)
This web site, maintained by the Canadian Heritage Information Network, provides guidance on creating and managing digital resources for heritage projects, including an overview of issues and resources in preservation of digital materials.
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Digital_Content/index.html
CRiB : Conversion and Recommendation of Digital Object Formats
Universidade do Minho. Dept. of Information Systems (Regularly Updated) (Portugal)
CRiB is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) designed to assist cultural heritage institutions in the implementation of migration-based preservation interventions. Functionalty includes recommending optimal migration alternatives that take into consideration the preservation requirements of the client institution; conversion of digital objects to up-to-date encodings; evaluating the migration outcomes by comparing the original digital object with its converted counterparts and identifying the significant properties that have not been correctly preserved; and the generation of migration reports for inclusion in the preservation metadata of migrated objects. The web site also has links to demonstrators, evaluation taxonomies and related articles.
http://crib.dsi.uminho.pt/
CRUMB : Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss
University of Sutherland (Regularly Updated)
Sponsored by the AHRB (Art and Humanities Research Board), this site has resources on many aspects of variable media art, including preservation and archiving. It includes a new media discussion list, curatorial resources, seminars, bibliographies and interviews.
http://www.crumbweb.org/
CyberCemetery
Government Documents Dept., University of North Texas Libraries (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This website was established in 2000 as a partnership between the University of North Texas Libraries and the U.S. Government Printing Office. It aims to provide permanent public online access to the web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions. The site is arranged alphabetically and by category.
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/

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Da Blog (ULCC Digital Archives Blog)
University of London Computer Centre Digital Archives Department (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This blog by the University of London Computer Centre Digital Archives Department includes discussion on recent developments and events and thoughts on digital preservation and archiving.
http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/
Daniel Langlois Foundation : Le Fondation Daniel Langlois
Daniel Langlois Foundation (Canada)
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology is leading a new five year research alliance project that will focus on important issues regarding the preservation and documentation of media art. To address these issues, this research alliance plans to pool numerous fields of expertise, including art preservation, art documentation, art history, technology history, information sciences, archival management, engineering and computer processing. The research will focus on three principal areas, and each will produce tools, guides and methodologies essential to preserving this new cultural heritage.
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/
DANS : Data Archiving and Networked Services
DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) (Regularly Updated) (Netherlands)
DANS is a Dutch national organisation which is responsible for the long term storing and access to data in the humanities and social sciences. Established in 2005, DANS is a joint initiative of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en/
Historical DAREnet (en) - Digital Academic Repositories
Digital Academic Repositories (Last Updated: 2008) (Netherlands)
This website provided information relating to the Digital Academic Repositories (DARE) program - a joint initiative between the Dutch Universities, as well as the National Library of the Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research. Initiated to preserve and provide access to the results of Dutch academic research from a range of institutions, this website included information on DARE, provided a list of participants and included the latest news relating to the project. In April 2008 DAREnet was incorporated into NARCIS and its records have became a subset.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070619040506/www.darenet.nl/en/page/langu
age.view/search.page
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Data Exchange Tools (DExT)
UK Data Archive. University of Essex. (Date Created: Dec 2006) (United Kingdom)
This one year project led by the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex aimed to "develop, refine and test models for data exchange for both survey data and qualitiative research data based on XML/RDF schema and will develop tools for data import and export." Data formats included are SPSS, STATA, XML, Atlas-ti, MaxQDA and Nvivo. The project final report was issued in April 2008.
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/dext/
Historical Data Preservation Program : Convergent Information Systems Division
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) (Last Updated: 2003) (United States of America)
The Convergent Information Systems Division (CISD), was part of NIST's (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Information Technology Laboratory. The goals of the Digital Preservation Program included working with government and industry to improve the interoperability and reliability with optical discs and library systems. This also included research into using optical discs as a preservation medium. Focussing on CDs and DVDs, the Program was divided into several areas including optical disc reliability testbed, data preservation and life expectancy of optical discs, high density storage, and DVD compatibility testing. As of October 2003 the program was converged into the Information Access Division.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060930135525/www.itl.nist.gov/div895/isis
/datastorage.html
Data Seal of Approval
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (Regularly Updated) (Netherlands)
The Data Seal of Approval web site has been developed by DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services), the Netherlands national organization for ensuring long term access to social sciences research data. The web site contains guidelines for applying and checking quality aspects of the creation, storage and (re)use of digital research data in the social sciences and humanities. "These guidelines serve as a basis for granting a “data seal of approval”. The criteria for granting the data seal of approval are in accordance with, and match, national and international guidelines for digital data archiving such as the Kriterienkatalog vertrauenswürdige digitale Langzeitarchive developed by NESTOR, the Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) published by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), as well as the Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification (TRAC): Criteria and Checklist by the Research Library Group (RLG)." The guidelines indicate responsibilities for data producers, repositories and consumers to ensure ongoing access.
http://www.datasealofapproval.org
Website also available in Dutch language version http://www.datakeurmerk.nl/
Database of Virtual Art
Humboldt University, Berlin (Regularly Updated)
This database, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF), has been developed to document and provide access to digital installation art. Its documentation system focuses on information about technical requirements, installation settings, software and hardware configurations. The web interface also allows artists to input this information themselves. Although mostly in German, this database represents an important development in ensuring continuing access to this art.
http://www.virtualart.at/database.html
Historical DAVA : Digital Audiovisual Archiving
Media Matters (Last Updated: Nov 2006)
This weblog, maintained by Media Matters, was updated weekly and featured news and announcements on topics related to the digital transformation and preservation of audiovisual materials. The blog intended to list upcoming conferences and workshops pertinent to archives and digital libraries, as well as links to metadata resource sites and other digital archiving resources.
http://av-archive.blogspot.com/
Historical DC-ANZ Conference 2003 : conference papers
Dublin Core Australia New Zealand Group (Date Created: Feb 2003) (Australia; New Zealand)
The Dublin Core ANZ committee had an inaugural metadata conference in Canberra, Australia on the 26th, 27th and 28th February 2003. Most of the conference papers are available in .pdf.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070222200844/www.dc-anz.org/conf2003/DC-A
NZAgenda.html
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
DCC: Digital Curation Centre
Digital Curation Centre (DCC) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
Consisting of four partner institutions - the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, UKOLN at the University of Bath, and the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils - the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) aims to support UK institutions to store, manage and preserve digital data for long-term access. The website includes links to information about the Digital Curation Centre, a definition of digital curation, DCC aims and objectives, and an overview of the DCC research agenda.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
Decision Tree for Selection of Digital Materials for Long-term Retention
Digital Preservation Coalition (Date Created: 08 Mar 2006)
Part of The Preservation Management of Digital Material Handbook, this online interactive decision-making tree is designed to assist organisations develop and test a selection policy for digital preservation. A hierarchy of structured questions provides a basis to decide if an item should be selected for preservation. A guidance section provides a bibliography of resources to developing a selection policy.
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/handbook/dec-tree.html
Also available in pdf.
DELOS Network of Excellence (NoE) on Digital Libraries
(Regularly Updated)
The DELOS Network of Excellence (NoE) was established in 2000 to facilitate the development of an open agenda for digital libraries research. The group is a reference point for all 5th Framework Programme projects funded by the Information Societies Technologies (IST) Programme.
http://www.delos.info/
DICE Center: Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE) Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The DICE Center was opened in April 2009 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and builds on the work of the DICE Research Group (operating since 1996), and conducts research in advanced technologies for managing, sharing, publishing, and preserving digital data including data grid technologies. The center is based at the School of Information and Library Science and works with the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) also at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The Data Intensive Cyberinfrastructure Foundation (DICF).
http://dice.unc.edu/
DigiCULT Resources
DigiCULT (Last Updated: 2005)
An aggregated resource with many links to various digital preservation related issues. The resource is broken down into themes, forums and topics. Part of the DigiCULT project which operated for 30 months (03/2002 to 08/2004) and was coordinated by Salzburg Reasearch partnering with Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow.
http://www.digicult.info/pages/resources.php
Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland (DEN)
Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland (DEN) (Date Created: 1999) (Netherlands)
Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland (DEN) or Digital Heritage Netherlands is the Dutch national platform for ICT and heritage. It is sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs and Science. DEN maintains an open source information system to assess the quality of digitisation of cultural heritage in the Netherlands which includes an ICT Registry, a Cultural Heritage Projects Bank and ICT profiles of Cultural Heritage Institutions. DEN collates and shares standards on digitisation.
http://www.den.nl
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Historical Digital Continuity Forum: Presentations
Swinburne University of Technology (Last Updated: 05 Dec 2001) (Australia)
This web page provides links to 6 presentations given at the Digital Continuity Forum at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, on November 19, 2001 (see http://www.swin.edu.au/lib/DigCon2001.htm )
http://www.swin.edu.au/lib/digcontforum/presentations.htm
Digital Curation at the Wellcome Library
Wellcome Library (Date Created: 2007) (United Kingdom)
These web pages are for those interested in "born digital" material collected by, or wanting to donate such material to the Wellcome Library. Included are links to the Digital Curation Toolbox, glossary and the Library's Strategy. Other policies including the Preservation policy and e-strategy can be accessed from "Useful links".
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node288.html
Digital Curation Tools
Digital Curation Centre (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This is an extensive list of digital curation tools. It lists functionalities, level of expertise and purpose for various tools. Categories include identification, data description tools, management software, preservation, data storage, digital repository and library models, documentation and standards, strategy tools and guidelines, web archiving tools and relevant projects.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/tools/digital-curation-tools/
Digital Game Archive
DiGA (Digital Game Archive) (Regularly Updated) (Germany)
The DiGA (Digital Game Archive) aims to preserve computer and video games and make them available and accessible in the long term. The site includes description of the Archive's aims and proposed strategies and provides links to related resources.
http://www.digitalgamearchive.org/home.php
Digital Heritage in Austria
Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture (Regularly Updated) (Austria)
This website provides an overview of Austrian cultural heritage digitisation initiatives, activities and programs. It includes a database of Austrian digitisation projects, activities and organisations and links to good practice guidelines and examples and annual status reports on the state of digitisation of cultural and scientific content in Austria.
http://www.digital-heritage.at/index_e.html
Available in English and German Language versions
Historical Digital Imaging and Preservation Policy Research (DIPPR)
Cornell University Library (Last Updated: 22 May 2002) (United States of America)
The Digital Imaging and Preservation Policy Research team (DIPPR) drew its members from the Department of Preservation and Conservation at the Cornell University Library and was involved in research, implementation, publication and training, with an emphasis on digital preservation and on mainstreaming the results of ongoing research projects into the Cornell University Library. Among the team's activities were research on technical aspects of digital imaging and preservation, digital preservation research through Project Prism, and publication of RLG DigiNews. The Department was disbanded in June 2002 and functions transferrred to the Research Department of IRIS.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/research/dippr.html
Digital Legal Deposit
National Library of Singapore (Date Created: 2007) (Singapore)
These web pages encourage and provide guidelines for Singapore publishers to deposit online, digital and internet publications in line with this voluntary digital legal deposit scheme.
http://deposit.nl.sg/LDNet-web/faces/voluntaryDeposit.jsp;jsessionid=F
881B709F700BDDEDA897B4FE9C43A5F
Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (Last Updated: 24 Oct 2005)
This site maintained by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) has links to a large number of articles and sites relating to data documentation and standards. The metadata links are grouped into common types for ease of navigation.
http://archive.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm
Digital Libraries: Metadata resources
IFLANet (Regularly Updated)
An IFLANet sponsored extensive list of links to metadata standards, selected papers and listings of topical events. The metadata links are grouped into common types for ease of navigation.
http://archive.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm
Digital Library Federation (DLF)
CLIR (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) was founded in 1995 to establish the conditions for creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials accessible to scholars, students, and a wider public. These pages provide information about the origins of the Federation, its organisation, and the strategic plan which informs its current initiatives. These pages also serve to identify useful reference materials about the development of digital libraries and to provide a record of DLF presentations (including meetings) and publications.
http://www.diglib.org/dlfhomepage.htm
Digital Library Programme
The British Library’s strategic vision is to “provide both physical and digital access to world-class information where and when people need it". These pages describe the Library's strategy for creating a critical mass of digital content by both collecting new published works in digital form and through the digitisation of the physical collections.
Contact: Roderic Parker
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/digi/dom/index.html
(Contributor: British Library )
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Historical Digital Millennium Copyright Act Study
United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress (Date Created: 12 Sep 2001) (United States of America)
This web page provides links to the executive summary and full report of the US Copyright Office, Library of Congress, regarding the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Other links also include public and reply comments and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
http://www.copyright.gov/reports/studies/dmca/dmca_study.html
Digital Preservation - Overview
The British Library is collecting and creating an increasing amount of material in various digital formats. The diversity of digital material and frequent changes in computer technology present challenges for long-term preservation and ongoing access. The British Library is at the cutting edge of such work, and these pages cover how the Library is addressing the challenges of digital preservation.
Contact: Paul Wheatley
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/ccare/introduction/digital/index
.html
(Contributor: British Library )
Digital Preservation Coalition
JISC Digital Preservation Focus (Last Updated: 14 Feb 2001) (United Kingdom)
Established in 2001, the Digital Preservation Coalition has its origins in the Warwick II Digital Preservation Workshop (1999). Implementation of the new body has been co-ordinated by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Digital Preservation Focus, which is supported by a wide range of UK institutions. The Coalition's aim is to develop and pursue a UK digital preservation agenda within an international context.
http://www.dpconline.org/
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Digital Preservation in the Context of Edinburgh University
Semple, Najla (Date Created: 09 Oct 2001) (United Kingdom)
This web site summarises presentations by speakers representing the main digital preservation projects in the United Kingdom at a seminar at the University of Edinburgh on September 24, 2001. Speakers outlined the work of JISC and the Digital Preservation Coalition, the British Library, the UK National Digital Archive of Datasets and the CEDARS project.
http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/sites/digpres/seminarday.shtml
Digital Production Centre
Digital Production Centre (Regularly Updated) (Netherlands)
Established at the University of Amsterdam, the Digital Production Centre assists scientists and organisations create, access and archive their online publications. The Centre builds on the outcomes of EUDUBA sponsored projects, and collaborates with the Digital Library Production Service at the University of Michigan and Amsterdam University Press.
http://www.uba.uva.nl/digital_production_centre/home.cfm
DigitalKoans
Bailey, Charles W. , Jr. (Regularly Updated)
This Weblog, created and maintained by Charles W. Bailey, provides commentary on scholarly electronic publishing and digital culture issues including digital scholarly communication, institutional repositories, open access publishing, digital copyright and digital curation.
http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/
DigitalPreservationEurope
DigitalPreservationEurope (Regularly Updated)
This EU project (funded 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2009 under the 6th Framework Programme) aims to collaborate, develop, promote and coordinate digital preservation initiatives in Europe, including standards, training and research activities. It builds on the earlier work of ERPANET. The website includes links to the Digital Preservation Europe (DPE) forum, information on partners, events and publications.
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/
Digitisation Overview
An overview of the Library's digitisation strategy with some current examples, including the International Dunhuang Project and Turning the Pages.
Contact: Aly Conteh
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/digi/digitisation/index.html
(Contributor: British Library )
Digitisation Strategy 2008-2011
For the past two decades, the British Library has undertaken a number of focused digitisation initiatives. More recently, we have entered the world of mass digitisation in partnership with external funding bodies and technology providers. Through digitisation, we are creating a valuable and enduring resource for scholars and the public alike. Our digitisation strategy underpins the Library’s corporate strategy to 2011, including our content strategy and digital library programme and these will inform our thinking as we develop our strategy to 2020. This paper sets out our vision for the next 10 years and how we will achieve this.
Contact: Aly Conteh
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/digi/digitisation/digistrategy/
(Contributor: British Library )
Digitization & Preservation Online Resource Center
OCLC (Date Created: 2003)
This web site contains a collection of resources relating to digital preservation issues and initiatives, particularly on those relevant to digitisation projects, including links to copyright, preservation (both traditional and digital) and digitisation workshops and international activities in these areas.
http://digitalcooperative.oclc.org
digitizationblog
Mark Jordan, Simon Fraser University Library (Regularly Updated)
This blog is a news source and an idea sharing forum for people involved with digitization and related activities in libraries, archives, and museums. There is a category on preservation.
http://digitizationblog.interoperating.info/
Dioscuri - the Modular Emulator for Digital Preservation
(Date Created: 2006) (Netherlands)
Dioscuri is a durable and flexible x86 computer hardware emulator written in Java. Dioscuri is being developed jointly by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands and PLANETS. News about the the project and documentation is available from this web site.
http://dioscuri.sourceforge.net/
DLF/OCLC Registry of Digital Masters
OCLC (Date Created: Aug 2006) (United States of America)
This is a joint project of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and OCLC, the registry provides a trusted service for the communication, coordination, and discovery of information about digital masters, their production, and the availability of use copies. The registry includes both digitally reformatted and born-digital objects. Hosted by OCLC and developed on the basis of recommendations from the DLF Registry of Digital Masters Working Group, the Registry of Digital Masters is a union catalog that uses MARC records to describe digital resources and provide details about their digitization and the preservation intentions of the institutions that are responsible for them. The registry is a subset of WorldCat which can be accessed through FirstSearch
http://www.oclc.org/digitalregistry/
DLM Forum 2005 Conference Proceedings : Electronic Records Supporting e-Government and Digital Archives
05 - 07 Oct 2005 , Budapest, Hungary (Date Created: Dec 2005)
Includes papers and presentations at various sessions including e-government and e-governance, standards and interchange, preservation and digital archives, education and cost benefits and impacts and demands on records management. Papers presented at the preservation and digital archives session include Keeping electronic records accessible - How the Federal Archives of Germany is preserving the digital heritage of the East German Republic; a case study ; A Digital Repository for the Rotterdam Municipal Archives: learning by experience ; Towards a National Digital Repository ; The PRONOM service: a technical registry to support long-term preservation ; The eDAVID digital preservation strategy: motivation and implementation ; The ArchiSafe Project - legally secure and scalable long-term record keeping.
http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/archival_policy/dlm_forum/proceed2005
_en.htm
Papers are in pdf format. Individual papers from the preservation and digital archives session are also catalogued individually in PADI.
DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage)
DOCAM (Date Created: 2005)
This five year project is funded by La Fondation Daniel Langlois. The project will research the conservation of the heritage of variable media arts and use case studies to help develop strategies and methodologies for the long term preservation of these works. The site also contains links and bibliographies to related works.
http://www.docam.ca/spip/rubrique.php?id_rubrique=2
Documenting Internet2 : a Collaborative Model for Developing Electronic Records Capabilities in the Small Archival Repository
Charles Babbage Institute (United States of America)
This 18 month project, which began in January 2004, administered by the Charles Babbage Institue (CBI) in conjunction with the University of Minnesota (UMN) and supported by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the funding arm of the National Archives. The purpose of the project was to develop feasible methods for selection, description, and long term preservation of historically significant born-digital records in the subject area of history of information technology. Internet2 is a non-profit consortium of over 200 universities working with industry and government to provide high speed networking capabilities to the research community, and relies heavily on electronic media. The final report was issued in March 2006 and is available from this website.
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/documentinginternet2/index.html
DOI System: Developed by The International DOI Foundation (IDF)
International DOI Foundation (Regularly Updated)
This is the website of the International Digital Object Identifier Foundation.The DOI is an identification system for intellectual property in the digital environment. Developed by the International DOI Foundation on behalf of the publishing industry, its goals are to provide a framework for managing intellectual content, link customers with publishers, facilitate electronic commerce, and enable automated copyright management. The website includes factsheets, news, publications including the DOI handbook and DOI System Tools.
http://www.doi.org/
DPHEP: Study Group for Data Preservation and Long-Term Analysis in High Energy Physics
DPHEP (Date Created: Oct 2008)
This study group was formed in late 2008 to clarify the objectives and the means of preserving data in high-energy physics (HEP). The collider experiments BaBar, Belle, BES-III, CLEO, CDF, DØ, H1 and ZEUS, as well as the associated computing centres at SLAC, KEK, the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing, Fermilab and DESY, are all represented, together with CERN, in the group’s steering committee. Working subgroups include Physics case for data preservation in HEP; Preservation models; Collaborations, governance and data access policies; and Technologies and Facilities.
https://www.dphep.org/
DRAMBORA Interactive : Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment
Digital Curation Centre; DigitalPreservationEurope (Regularly Updated)
This website describes the DRAMBORA toolkit and allows download of the toolkit which was released by the Digital Curation Centre and DigitalPreservationEurope. The toolkit allows repository administrators to self assess their capabilities, identify weaknesses and strengths based on risk assessments. A flyer is available for download in JPEG or PDF formats.
http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/
DSpace
Hewlett-Packard Company; MIT Libraries (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Purpose : The purpose of the DSpace digital repository system is to capture, store, index, preserve, and distribute digital research material. Version 1.3.2 of DSpace is available for download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ . Originally, the MIT Dspace initiative was established with Hewlett-Packard to create a web-based electronic archive of the intellectual output of MIT and other federated partners.
Documentation : The DSpace wiki http://wiki.dspace.org/ provides documentation on resources, other collaboration tools and obtaining the source code.
http://www.dspace.org//
DSpace@Cambridge Repository
University of Cambridge (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
The University of Cambridge Digital Repository became a strategic service on 1 July 2006. It is managed jointly by Cambridge University Library and the University Computing Service.
http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Has papers: Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description
This is the official home page for the Dublin Core and is the formal repository for information about the workshop series, working group activities, standards activities, and related information. The Dublin Core is a metadata element set intended to facilitate discovery of electronic resources. Originally conceived for author-generated description of Web resources, it has attracted the attention of formal resource description communities such as museums, libraries, government agencies, and commercial organisations.
http://purl.org/DC/
DVD Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers)
Taylor, Jim (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This extensive list, which is updated regularly, covers both general and technical topics including software and hardware, standards, compatibility issues and new developments.
http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html
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Dépôt Légal
Bibliotheque nationale de France (Regularly Updated) (France)
Updated version of the Bibliotheque nationale de France's legal deposit web pages. As well as providing background information to the mandatory deposit scheme, links are provided to current legislation, and to the recommendations of the Conseil scientifique du dépôt légal (the French legal deposit advisory body) that deposit be extended to include online publications.
http://www.bnf.fr/pages/infopro/depotleg/depotleg.htm

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EAI Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art
Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) (Date Created: 2006) (United States of America)
This resource guide addresses issues and draws together information on current practices relating to single channel video, computer based art and media installation. The preservation section was created by IMAP (Independent Media Arts Preservation).
http://resourceguide.eai.org/
ECURE Archives
ECURE. Arizona State University. (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This website presents speakers' presentations given at ECURE (Preservation and Access for Electronic College and University Records) conferences 1999 to 2005.
http://www.asu.edu/ecure/archives.html
Electronic Collection: A Virtual Collection of Monographs and Periodicals
Library and Archives Canada (Regularly Updated) (Canada)
The Library and Archives Canada provides access to archived versions of Canadian online material. This site includes links to information about the electronic collection, its history and tips on archiving an online publication, deposit and citation guidelines and a search facility.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/electroniccollection/003008-200-e.h
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Electronic Media Group. a specialty group of the American Institute for Conservation
Electronic Media Group (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The mission of the Electronic Media Group (EMG) is twofold: (1) preservation of electronic art, electronic-based cultural materials and tools of creation; and (2) to provide a means for conservators and related professionals to develop and maintain knowledge of relevant new media and emerging technologies. Their website provides links to related resources which are available on the Internet.
http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/emg/
Electronic Records
Public Record Office, UK (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This website describes and provides links to documents describing the UK Public Record Office's activities in the area of electronic records management.
http://www.pro.gov.uk/recordsmanagement/erecords/default.htm
Electronic Records Online
National Archives (UK) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This website gives public access to presentation copies of original records from the National Archives digital archive. The records are accessible via a browse facility and present a range of government material in a number fo different formats.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ero/
Electronic Storage Media
In: CoOL Conservation OnLine : Resources for Conservation Professionals (Regularly Updated)
This is the electronic storage media page on the Conservation Online (CoOL) website and deals with videotape, optical disks (CD-ROM, etc.) and holographic media.
http://cool.conservation-us.org/bytopic/electronic-records/electronic-
storage-media/
ELPUB Digital Repository
Vienna University of Technology (Regularly Updated)
This is a free searchable database that provides access to all the conference papers presented at the ELPUB (Electronic Publishing) conferences dating from the first conference in 1997. There are several search and browse options and access to advanced features such as ratings, reviews and the discussion forum is via registration.
http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Home
Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Usability of Digital Information
National Diet Library (Japan) (Date Created: 2008) (Japan)
This web page describes requirements for long term preservation and has links to studies conducted by the National Diet Library and introduction to the NDL Digital Archiving System.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/aboutus/preservation.html
Historical ERPAAdvisory
ERPANET (Last Updated: Aug 2004)
The ERPAAdvisory service allowed access to digital preservation professionals through a discussion list and question archive.It was a service available through ERPANET which was funded 2001-1004. Access to ERPAAdvisory was only available to registered users. However previous questions and answers are available from a link.
http://www.erpanet.org/advisory/index.php
ERPAAssesments
ERPANET (Last Updated: 2004) (United Kingdom)
ERPAAssesment was an online information service on digital preservation provided by ERPANET. The ERPANET project was funded until end of 2004. Access to ERPAAssesment was originally only available to registered users, and was found through selecting "products" on the ERPANET home page. The resource to 200 commentaries on articles, monographs and projects relevant to digital preservation (2002-2004) is now openly available.
http://www.erpanet.org/assessments/index.php
ERPANET Eprints Service
ERPANET (Date Created: 2003)
ERPANET, in collaboration with Project Daedalus, has developed an open archives eprint service to allow authors and creators to make their work available at a central access point. The goal is to enable long term access to the full text of the research output of experts, scholars and researchers in the field of digital preservation.
http://eprints.erpanet.org/
ERPANET: Electronic Resource Preservation and Access NETwork
ERPANET (Date Created: 1 Nov 2001)
ERPANETwas funded by the European Commission under the fifth framework programme (36 months to end October 2004). It aimed to establish a European Consortium to provide a virtual clearinghouse and knowledge-base on state-of-the-art developments in digital preservation. Focusing on the areas of cultural heritage and scientific objects, it facilitated the transfer of expertise, information, best practice and skills development among individuals and institutions, bringing together industry, academic and memory institutions, entertainment and government organisations. It developed a comprehensive web site and training programs.
http://www.erpanet.org/
European Archive
European Archive (Regularly Updated)
The European Archive is a non profit initiative. It is a digital library of European material such as sound, motion pictures and web pages. It provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. The Eurpean Archive will develop a large-scale archiving architecture and infrastructure for the storage, access and preservation of digital objects. The European Archive has a partnership with the Internet Archive.
http://www.europarchive.org/
European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA)
European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) (Last Updated: Jul 2008)
The European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) was established in 1994. It acted "as a European platform for discussion and cooperation of heritage organisations in areas of preservation and access". Its website contains news and information about projects, activities, publications and other resources related to the preservation of documentary heritage (including digital material) in Europe. In June 2008 it was announced that with the finalization of the TAPE project ECPA's work would come to a close. Related mailing lists (ECPA, EPIC-LST, Inkcorrosion-L, SEPIA-LST and TAPE were to close at end July 2008. ECPA's information resources are to be transferred to other organisations but the ECPA website will remain for some time.
http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/about.html

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FCLA Digital Archive
Florida Center for Library Automation (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The purpose of the FCLA (Florida Center for Library Automation) digital archive is to provide a long-term preservation repository for digital materials in support of teaching and learning, scholarship, and research in the state of Florida. The website has links to extensive documentation on various file formats for which the Archive has developed a preservation strategy. Other documentation includes the digital object deposit agreement, definitions, procedures and policies.
http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/index.htm
Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
Library of Congress (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This web site is a collaborative effort by U.S. federal agencies to define common guidelines, methods, and practices for the digitisation of historical content. Two working groups have been established:the Federal Agencies Still Images Digitization Working Group and the Federal Agencies Audio Visual Working Group.
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/
Federal Web Harvests
U.S. National Archives & Records Adminstration (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This site currently has links to the web harvests of the United States 110th Congress (2008), 109th Congress (2006) and the Presidential Term 2004. NARA's intention is to harvest Federal web sites at the end of each presidential term (4 years) and each Congress (2 years).
http://www.webharvest.gov/collections/
Fedora Commons
Fedora Commons (Regularly Updated)
This web site provides access to versions of the Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture) open-source digital object repository management system. The site describes the main features of the system and also provides links to publications and workshops.
Documentation : The system documentation, technical specifications, FAQs and tuturials are available from http://www.fedora.info/documentation/ The name of the Fedora Project was changed to Fedora Commons in 2007. From July 1 2009, Fedora Commons and DSpace will come together as DuraSpace.
http://www.fedora.info/
File Formats Blog
McGath, Gary (Regularly Updated)
Gary McGath is a software Engineer at Harvard University Libraries. His blog features 'news and comments about technical issues relating to file formats, file validation, and archival software.'
http://fileformats.blogspot.com/
FILExt - The File Extension Source
Computer Knowledge (Regularly Updated)
This web site provides a searchable database of file extensions and the programs that use them.
http://filext.com/
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FRED : a Format Registry Demonstration
University of Pennsylvania Library (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
FRED (Format REgistry Demonstrator) is a proof-of-concept prototype format registry demonstrator developed from the Mellon-funded TOM (Typed Object Model) project. It's purpose is to provide some idea of the requirements that developing a global registry would entail. It can be used to demonstate how file format information can be presented and how it can be used, maintained and managed. There are links to the data model, a list of registered formats, and a discussion list.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://tom.library.upenn.edu/fred/

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Geospatial Electronic Records
CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University) (Date Created: 2004) (United States of America)
This website, developed through the Managing and Preserving Geospatial Electronic Records project and funded by NARA (United States National Archives and Records Administration), aims to identify and disseminate practical policies, techniques, standards, and procedures to manage, preserve, and provide access to electronic records that have significant geospatial components, especially those generated by a Geographic Information System (GIS).
http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/ger/
Getting to Disk-based Loss-less Digital Video Preservation
National Library of Medicine
This website includes the presentations and summary notes from an event held on 1 August, 2005, at Maryland (U.S.). Sessions include prospects and challenges of migrating to digital moving image archives, video preservation workflows, motion JPEG 2000 and video archiving.
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/VideoArchivists2005/
Conference held at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland (US) on 1 August, 2005.
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Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR)
Harvard University Library (Regularly Updated)
In development since 2002, the GDFR (Global Digital Format Registry) is an ongoing international initiative. The GDFR working group comprises national and academic research libraries and archives. The GDFR was developed as a mechanism to provide trustworthy, sustainable and authoratitive information about data formats. This website also has information on data and service models, use cases and the GDFR mission statement. In April 2009 GDFR joined with PRONOM to form the Unified Digital Formats Registry (UDFR). The UDFR will support the requirements and use cases compiled for GDFR and will be seeded with PRONOM's software and formats database.
http://hul.harvard.edu/gdfr/
Government of Canada Web Archive
Library and Archives Canada (Regularly Updated) (Canada)
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) launched this website in Fall 2007. The website allows searching of web pages harvested since December 2005 from the web domain of the Federal Government of Canada.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/index-e.html
English and French versions available.
GRADE : Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction
EDINA National Data Centre (Last Updated: 2008) (United Kingdom)
The GRADE project (funded from 2005-2007) was developed by a consortia headed by EDINA with primary partners the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. GRADE is a demonstrator repository and is part of a scoping exercise for the establishment of a sustainable infrastructure for geospatial data reuse.
http://edina.ac.uk/projects/grade/index.html
Guide to Electronic Theses & Dissertations
UNESCO (Regularly Updated)
This website is a collaborative service that is updated regularly and features a series of essays on best practice, standards and intellectual property rights. The website is designed for authors, e-publishers and academic institutions to provide assistance on issues such as researching, writing, and preserving ETDs, including sections on markup languages and metadata.
http://www.etdguide.org/

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Handle System
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This site provides links to resources dealing with the Handle system - "a general purpose distributed information system that provides efficient, extensible, and secure HDL identifier and resolution services for use on networks such as the Internet. It includes an open set of protocols, a namespace, and a reference implementation of the protocols. The protocols enable a distributed computer system to store identifiers, known as handles, of arbitrary resources and resolve those handles into the information necessary to locate, access, contact, authenticate, or otherwise make use of the resources."
http://www.handle.net/index.html
HANZO Web : a Social Web Archiving Service
HANZO Archives Limited (Regularly Updated)
Up to this time the archiving of websites is mainly in the sphere of national and international organisations. This is an interesting site as it allows personal web archiving at nominated intervals of selected pages, links and websites via registration. The site guarantees permanent access and content is stored in open web archive standards-based formats.
http://www.hanzoweb.com/

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i2010: Digital Libraries Initiative
European Union (Regularly Updated)
The Digital Libraries Initiative is part of the European Commission's i2010 European Information Society for growth and employment strategy. The Digital Libraries Initiative aims to make Europe's diverse cultural and scientific heritage accessible in the long term. The Digital Libraries initiative concentrates on three areas, online accessibility, digitisation of analogue collections, and preservation and storage to ensure long term access to digital content.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/i
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IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries
IEEE Computer Society (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Established by the IEEE Computer Society in 1997, the committee's aims are to promote research into the theory, practice and technical challenges related to digital collective memory . Participation in discussions is possible by joining the technical committee at http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/join.html.
http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/TCDL/index.php/IEEE-TCDL
IFLA Electronic Collections
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (Regularly Updated)
This list includes hundreds of sources and links relating to digital libraries, information policy, the internet and networking.
http://archive.ifla.org/II/
IFLANET: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (Regularly Updated)
This site, maintained by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions includes a wide range of information including resources about Electronic Collections and Services.
http://www.ifla.org/
IMAP : Independent Media Arts Preservation
IMAP (Independent Media Arts Preservation Inc.) (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Independent Media Arts Preservation, Inc. (IMAP) is a United States based non-profit service, education, and advocacy organisation that focuses on preservation of non-commercial electronic media that is stored outside of large archiving institutions. Although mostly concerned with electronic material, IMAP also assists groups dealing with the preservation of film, performance, interdisciplinary, and multimedia work. IMAP provides various services to facilitate digital preservation and access to collections, including preservation education, cataloguing and training.
http://www.imappreserve.org/
Historical Immaterial Variable Media Art / Video Art Preservation : Studies and Suggestions
Danish Video Art Data Bank (Last Updated: Nov 2004) (Denmark)
This website concentrated on the preservation of videotapes. It covered a wide range of aspects including storage, handling, preservation strategies, obsolescence ratings and case studies. It also Included a bibliography and links to other sites of interest.
http://www.videokunst-danmark.dk/preservation/start-2.htm
IMPACT : Improving Access to Text
IMPACT Project (Date Created: Jan 2008)
This project is aimed at improving access to historical text through removing barriers to mass digitisation in Europe by supporting development of innovative OCR software and linguistic technology tools. The project started 1 January 2008 and will run for 4 years. Partners include seven libraries, six research institutes and two private sector companies and will collectively constitute a Centre of Competence sharing best practice and expertise with cultural heritage communities in Europe. The project is funded under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission (FP7), Cooperation Work Programme for ICT and is coordinated by the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek).
http://www.impact-project.eu/
Information Sheets : Australian Copyright Council
Australian Copyright Council (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
The Australian Copyright Council publishes information sheets covering many aspects of copyright law. Each publication is intended to provide a general overview. Topics include art, photography and design, education & teaching, film, video, multimedia & TV, and music and performing arts. The Council also publishes introductory information about copyright in general.
http://www.copyright.org.au/information
Intellectual Property: the British Library's Perspective
This webpage covers the British Library's perspective on intellectual property in the digital age. There are links to numerous documents that help to show how the British Library is responding to the complexities of dealing with intellectual property and digital material. Links to relevant external organisations are also provided.
Contact: Roderic Parker
http://www.bl.uk/ip/
(Contributor: British Library )
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Forming part of the University of Michigan, the ICPSR acquires and preserves social science data on behalf of 400 member colleges and universities in the US and abroad. To ensure continuing access to the archived records, the Consortium uses migration methods to keep abreast of technological change.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/index.html
International Records Management Trust (IRMT)
IRMT (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
A London-based organisation, the International Records Management Trust was established in 1989 to assist developing countries in managing their official records. Searchable on this website are links to IRMTsponsored projects and papers, including resources examining electronic records management issues.
http://www.irmt.org/index.html
Internet Archive
Kahle, Brewster (Last Updated: 3 Mar 1998) (United States of America)
A non-profit commercial venture, the Internet Archive is collecting and storing public materials from the Internet such as the World Wide Web, Netnews, and downloadable software which have been donated by Alexa Internet. This collection will include all publicly accessible World Wide Web pages, the Gopher hierarchy, the Netnews bulletin board system, and downloadable software. Archived web pages may be accessed using the Wayback Machine interface. Also preserved at this site is access to films documenting 20th century North American life and culture, digitised from the Prelinger Archives of ephemeral films in San Francisco.
http://www.archive.org/
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit corporation that was formed to take over responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions now performed under U.S. Government contract.
http://www.icann.org/
Internet Engineering Task Force
Internet Engineering Task Force (Regularly Updated)
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. Amongst issues examined by the Task Force is permanent naming.
http://www.ietf.org/home.html
Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information
Baca, Murtha; Gill, Tony; Gilliland-Swetland, Anne (Last Updated: Sep 2008)
An updated web version, this publication includes essays, a crosswalk of current and emerging metadata standards, a glossary and useful URLS
http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/index.
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Web version 3.0 published Sept 2008, print ,html and pdf versions available.
Israeli Internet Sites Archive
Jewish National & University Library (Regularly Updated) (Israel)
This project is part of a research project at the Department of Information Studies of Bar-Ilan University and is supported by the Jewish National & University Library of Israel (JNUL). The first phase of the Pilot Project utilised the selective approach to archiving the Israeli web. Approximately twenty sites were initially selected and these sites were captured monthly between December 2003 and May 2004 by using off-the-shelf capturing software. The results will form the basis of a larger scale pilot which will include selection guidelines and concentrate on providing long term access to these archived sites. A second collection the 17th Knesset Elections 2006 has been added.
http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/IA/ArchivedSites/IA/firstpage.html
IWAW 05 : International Web Archiving Workshop and Digital Preservation
22 - 23 Sep 2005 , Vienna (Austria)
This was held in conjunction with the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries. There are links to full papers on the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium), digital preservation, audio and video web archiving and current projects and issues.
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JHOVE : JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment : Digital Format Specific Validation
Harvard University Library; JSTOR (Last Updated: Dec 2007)
Purpose : JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment) is a project to automate the identification and validation of file formats.This process is based on the file itself rather than the filename extension.
Documentation : Access to tutorials, use cases and downloadable modules are available. Project followed by the JHOVE2 project.
http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/index.html
JISC Digital Media - Still Images, Moving Images and Sound Advice
JISC Digital Media (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This website replaces TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images) with expanded content to provide advice on moving images and sound in addition to still images. Training opportunities and case studies and a Helpdesk for UK HE community are also included.
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/
JISC-PoWR : Preservation of Web Resources : A JISC-sponsored project
JISC-PoWR (Date Created: 23 Apr 2008) (United Kingdom)
This blog was set up to support the JISC-PoWR project which was initiated by the JISC Integrated Information Environment Committee and ran from April to September 2008. It was undertaken jointly by UKOLN at Bath University and ULCC Digital Archives department. The project aimed to “organise workshops and produce a handbook that specifically addresses digital preservation issues that are relevant to the UK HE/FE web management community”. Links to the handbook and presnetations at events which were held June, July & September 2008 are included. The blog has continued after the finalisation of the project with posts relevant to the the project aims.
http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/
Historical JISC/Publishers Association Working Party Papers and Reports
eLib web-support (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This area on the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) website contains reports and papers arising from collaborative work between the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Publishers Association (PA). Papers dated 1997-1999.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/pa/
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (Last Updated: 22 Apr 1998)
The purpose of JISC is: 'To stimulate and enable the cost effective exploitation of information systems and to provide a high quality national network infrastructure for the UK higher education and research councils communities'. The JISC-funded eLib program has included (but has not been limited to) the following project areas: digital preservation, hybrid libraries, large-scale resource discovery projects, access to network resources, digitisation, electronic document delivery and electronic journals. In 2000, JISC created a new post, the Digital Preservation Focus, in recognition of the increasing strategic importance of digital preservation for the Higher and Further Education communities.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/
JPEG 2000 in Libraries and Archives
University of Connecticut (Regularly Updated)
The decision to create this Web site arose out the Symposium on the Adoption of JPEG 2000 by Archives and Libraries on November 4-5, 2004. The website allows users to register and post their own information on best practice, articles, projects, and products that use the standard. The website provides access to the Symposium report and project briefing; access to resources by type and focus and access to an associated blog. The website has a companion mailing list discussing the application of JPEG 2000 in libraries and archives.
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Historical KB/IBM Long Term Preservation Study
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Date Created: Dec 2002) (Netherlands)
This website documents the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's Long Term Preservation Study, which was undertaken as part of the Project Depot van Nederlandse Elektronische Publicaties (DNEP) in association with IBM. The Study, which ran from November 2000 to December 2001, examined issues relating to the long term preservation of digital objects, particularly as they impact upon the DNEP (the KB's deposit system for electronic materials which is currently under construction). In December 2002 six reports describing the results of the study were published - The Long-Term Preservation Study of the DNEP Project - an Overview of the Results ; Authenticity in a Digital Environment ; Preservation Requirements in a Deposit System ; The UVC: a Method for Preserving Digital Documents – Proof of Concept ; Managing Media Migration in a Deposit System ; Archiving Web Publications. All are available from the website.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_onderzoek/dnep_ltp_study-en.html
Reports also available from the IBM website - http://www-5.ibm.com/nl/dias/preservation.html
New KOST - Koordinationsstelle für die dauerhafte Archivierung elektronischer Unterlagen : CECO - Centre de coordination pour l'archivage à long terme de documents électroniques
KOST-CECO (Regularly Updated) (Switzerland)
This initiative of the Swiss archives community is a centre coordinating the long term archiving of electronic documents. It includes a format registry with recommendations as to suitability for long term archiving, regular newsletter and details of projects.
http://kost-ceco.ch/

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New LDB-Centrum : LDB Centre for Long-term Digital Preservation
LDB-Centrum (Date Created: Jan 2004) (Sweden)
The LDP Centre (Centre for Long-term Digital Preservation) is a competence centre for research and technical development and testing of methods and technologies for long-term digital preservation and access which was created in 2004. Cooperation members include the National Archives of Sweden, National Library of Sweden, Lulea University of Technology and the Municipality of Boden. Project themes include web archiving, automated preservation and developing a technical test platform.
http://www.ltu.se/ies/ldb-centrum
Website in Swedish and English versions.
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Legal Deposit
National Library of Scotland (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
The Legal Deposit web pages of the National Library of Scotland. Links are provided to documentation about the deposit of UK non-print publications, including a 1999 Revised Version of the Code of Practice for the Voluntary Deposit of Non-Print Publications and related explanatory notes (effective January 2000). Reference is made to the deposit of both offline and online electronic publications, the latter of which are excluded from the voluntary arrangement and are instead subject to experimental deposit testing.
http://www.nls.uk/professional/legaldeposit/index.html
Legal Deposit Department at the Jewish National & University Library
Jewish National & University Library (Date Created: 2001) (Israel)
These pages from the Jewish National & University Library provide guidelines to fulfill legal deposit obligations in Israel under the Books Law 2000 (5761) which was amended as of June 2001 to include non-paper materials such as audio, video recordings and publications on CD.
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/lgd.html
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Legal Deposit System Council
National Diet Library (Japan) (Regularly Updated) (Japan)
The purpose of the Council, an advisory panel of outside experts to the Librarian of the Japanese National Diet Library (NDL), is to contribute to the improvement and proper management of the Japanese legal deposit system. Currently the NDL is making preparations for amending the legal deposit system in order to follow the recommendations from the 1999 report titled ‘What the Japanese legal deposit system should be at the approach to the 21st century, focused on publications by electronic media’, which found that CD-ROMS and other electronic publications which fixate information in physical media should be treated as print material under the same legal deposit, while networked electronic material should be excluded from the same legislation and acquired on a contract basis.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/aboutus/deposit_council_book.html
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Legal Deposits
Royal Library of Sweden (Regularly Updated) (Sweden)
The legal deposit web pages of the Royal Library of Sweden contains a list of the categories of materials subject to statutory deposit, as well as links to the Acts of 1993 and 1995 (the latter of which extended the scope of the legislation to include certain electronic documents).
http://www.kb.se/english/services/deposits/
Swedish version available at http://www.kb.se/Ple/LD.htm
Historical The Library and Information Commission (LIC)
(Last Updated: 2000) (United Kingdom)
Formed in 1995, the LIC advised the UK government on issues relating to the library and information sector. In April 2000, the LIC and the Museums and Galleries Commission were phased out and replaced by Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries. The organisation's name was again changed to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) in February 2004. Details of research reports published by the LIC and the British Library Research and Innovation Centre (BLRIC) are no longer available on the LIC Web site http:/www.lic.gov.uk/. However reports and papers are hosted by UKOLN.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/
Reports and papers available from UKOLN at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/
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Historical Library of Congress Digital Repository Development : Core Metadata Elements
Library of Congress (Date Created: 18 May 2000) (United States of America)
This website provides an introduction to a table of metadata elements developed by the Library of Congress to support administrative and structural functions, such as access management, administration, discovery, persistent identification, presentation, digital preservation and preservation reformatting. There are links to the actual table of metadata elements, as well as to other Library of Congress LC standards which were under development. NB: The web page notes that this was a historical document resulting from a 1998 pilot project and not a current LC metadata standard. See the LC Standards page for current standards.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/metadata.html
LIFE : Life Cycle Information for E-Literature
LIFE (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This is the website of a collaboration project between University College London (UCL) Library Services and the British Library and funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Using the collections at UCL and the British Library, the project examines the life cycles and costs over the long term of digital collections. The first phase of the project LIFE1 culminated with a conference held on 20 April 2006. LIFE2 ran from March 2007 to August 2008 with LIFE2 conference held on 23 June 2008. LIFE3 is due to start August 2009.
http://www.life.ac.uk/
LISNews Librarian and Information Science News
Blake Carver (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Created and maintained by librarians, LISNews.com is a web site devoted to providing summaries of selected current topics and news in the world of Library and Information Science, including digital libraries and digital preservation.
http://www.lisnews.com/
Long Now Foundation
Long Now Foundation (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This website focuses on the Long Now Foundation and includes information on the foundation’s goals, past events and a summary of current projects. The Projects section of the site lists projects being undertaken in relation to the preservation of digital materials, with information on the Long Server Project, the Digital Dark Age Project and the LongMail projects.
http://www.longnow.org/
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Culture and Media Science
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute (Date Created: 2005) (Austria)
The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute is based in Linz, Austria. The purpose of the institute is to develop strategies for the documentation, description and preservation of digital artworks and media art, particularly the digital artworks of the Ars Electronica Archive. This project is expected to run for seven years and other partner institutions include the University of Art and Industrial Design, Ars Electronica Center and Lentos Art Museum based in Linz.
http://media.lbg.ac.at/

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MathArc : Ensuring Access to Mathematics Over Time : Cooperative Management of Distributed Digital Archives
Cornell University Library; Göttingen State and University Library (Regularly Updated)
This is a collaborative project of Cornell University Library and Göttingen State and University Library. The purpose of this project is to create a distributed, interoperable system for the long-term preservation and dissemination of digital serial literature in mathematics and statistics.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/MathArc/web/index.html
MetaArchive
MetaScholar Initiative (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This project commenced in 2004 and was aimed at the preservation of digital content with the subject focus of southern United States culture and history. The original project had six partner institutions in collaboration with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and Library of Congress. The goals of the project included the creation of a conspectus of digital content held by partner sites, a harvested body of the most critical content to be preserved, development of a model cooperative agreement for ongoing collaboration and the implementation of a distributed preservation network infrastructure based on the LOCKSS system. The type of content to be preserved included digital masters of scanned images, research databases and websites. Since 2007 the MetaArchive Cooperative membership has been extended. It is now "responsible for preserving Member organizations’ content in a decentralized, distributed preservation network comprised of subject-based archives (e.g., Southern Digital Culture, Electronic Theses and Dissertations, etc.), as well as maintaining and extending its methodology and approach to distributed digital preservation."
http://www.metaarchive.org/
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Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS)
Library of Congress (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This is the official web site of the Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS) XML schema, a standard using XML for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata for objects within a digital library. The standard is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation, and is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
Historical Metadata Projects, Resources, Workshops
European Commission DGXIII Telematics for Libraries (Last Updated: 8 Sep 1999) (United Kingdom)
This site contains many links to both Telematics and other projects, initiatives, workshops, events and general metadata resources.
http://www.cordis.lu/libraries/en/metadata/metahome.html
Metamap
University of Monteal (Date Created: 2003)
A pedagogic tool, Metamap provides visually organised links to definitions, links and information regarding standards, organizations, initiatives, file types, and issues related to metadata. The map is entertainingly constructed to resemble a subway map with each colour-coded line representing a particular category of knowledge. Selecting a “station” displays a window with a basic definition, relevant links, and related topics. Viewing of the map requires Adobe SVG viewer, which can be downloaded from the Metamap site.
http://mapageweb.umontreal.ca/turner/meta/english/index.html
Also available in French.
MICHAEL : Multicultural Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe
(Regularly Updated)
MICHAEL is a portal to digital collections in European Libraries, Museums and Archives. As of December 2007 access to national collections from the UK, France and Italy was available with plans to include access to collections in eleven other European countries.
http://www.michael-culture.org/
Historical MINERVA : Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive
Library of Congress (Date Created: 2001) (United States of America)
The MINERVA Web Preservation Project, developed by the US Library of Congress, was established to initiate a broad program to collect and preserve primary resources that are 'born digital' and not available in any other format. The site has links to various subject based archives such as the September 11 archive. The final report was issued in 2002. Minerva was the early development project for the Library of Congress Web Archives.
http://www.loc.gov/minerva/
MinervaEurope
MinervaEurope (Regularly Updated)
The objective of the original MINERVA project was to set up a network to provide a focus for the harmonisation of digitisation activities in the European Union. The project aimed to develop an agreed common digitisation platform, and guidelines on digitisation, metadata, long-term accessibility and preservation. The project is led by the Italian Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali. MINERVA is funded by the European Commission as part of the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme. In October 2006 the project was enlarged to MINERVA EC, MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation, eContentplus - Supporting the European Digital Library, a Thematic Network in the area of cultural, scientific information and scholarly content.
http://www.minervaeurope.org/
The MiniDisc Community Page
(Regularly Updated)
Website devoted to the MiniDisc format with topical and technical information collected from press releases, articles, manufacturers and sellers.
http://www.minidisc.org/
mod_oai
Old Dominion University (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Mod-oai is a joint project of the Old Dominion University Digital Library Research Group, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and is funded by the Mellon Foundation. The aim of the project is to make the content from Apache Web servers accessible via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Web servers and Web crawlers would be able to selectively harvest from data repositories, for instance data gathering could be limited to files of a certain mimetype. The website provides an overview of the project including links to relevant organisations and describes members of the project team.
http://www.modoai.org/
MPEG Homepage
Moving Picture Experts Group (Regularly Updated)
This website contains information on the development of international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio and their combination, including MPEG 7 and MPEG 21. The website has links to meetings, documents, tutorials and workplans.
http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/
MRC Data Sharing and Preservation Initiative
Medical Research Council (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
The Medical Research Councill (MRC) in the UK is a taxpayer funded organisation that provides grants for medical research programs and infrastructure. As part of the MRC's Data Sharing and Digital Preservation initiative several documents and guidelines have been produced. These include a policy statement on data sharing and preservation, a report on practical guidance on data preservation, promotion and development of data sharing tools, development of a set of principles in using personal information in medical research and commissioning a report of access to collections of data for health research.
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Ourresearch/Ethicsresearchguidance/Datasharingini
tiative/index.htm
Museums and the Information Age
Keene, Suzanne (Last Updated: 24 Apr 1999)
This 'click-through' guide includes regularly updated links to resources under various headings and provides constantly updated references to electronic opportunities for museums.
http://www.suzannekeene.info/infoage/index.htm
Click-Through Guide accompanies the bookDigital Collections: Museums and the Information Age. Butterworth Feb.1998. ISBN 0 7506 3456 1
Historical Museums and the Web 2001
(Date Created: 2001) (United States of America)
This website covers the Museums and the Web 2001 conference, providing full papers and workshop notes.
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/
Museums Libraries and Archives Council : MLA
(Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
Formerly called Resource (which was formed in April 2000 to replace the Museums and Galleries Commission (MGC) and the Library and Information Commission (LIC)). It is funded by the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport. It is the main strategic body for museums, archives and libraries in the UK and it advises the government on issues relating to these sectors. It also provides some support for research and development.
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NARA : 18th Annual Preservation Conference : Preservation Reformatting : Digital Technology vs. Analog Technology
27 Mar 2003 , National Archives at College Park, Maryland
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. (NARA)
(United States of America)
Contains links to conference proceedings. These papers all tend to debate the choices associated with making digital copies of analogue materials and relate the difficulties associated with maintaining the digital duplicates.
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/conferences/2003/index.html
The National Archives : Digital Preservation
The National Archives (UK) (Date Created: Apr 2003) (United Kingdom)
On April 2 2003, the Public Record Office (PRO) and the Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC) in the UK joined together to form a new organisation: The National Archives (TNA). This area of TNA's web site provides information on various digital preservation conferences, projects and activities such as the Domesday Project and the UK government digital archive.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/digital.htm
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National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
Library of Congress (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The NDIIPP dates from late 2000 when the US Congress called for the Library of Congress to lead a national planning effort for the long-term preservation of digital content and to work collaboratively with representatives of other federal, research, library, and business organisations. The NDIIPP Web site contains general information on the program, news and links to publications and projects.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/
National Digital Preservation Programme
Department of Information Technology, Government of India (Date Created: Nov 2008) (India)
This initiative of the Indian government is intended to address the digital preservation challenge in India. The initiative is being formulated by the Department of Technology, Government of India. The web site hosted by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) includes programs of preliminary workshops.
http://ndpp.in/
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The NHPRC has funded much research on long-term preservation of and access to electronic records. Their website provides a list of current projects and links to project reports. Of particular interest is the section on Electronic Records Projects.
http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/
National Information Standards Organisation - NISO
National Information Standards Organization (Date Created: 2000) (United States of America)
The National Information Standards Organisation develops and promotes international technical standards used in information services. Drawing a member base from information producers and users, including libraries, publishers and government agencies, NISO aims to achieve interoperability between data, equipment and practices.
http://www.niso.org/
Historical National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH)
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) (Last Updated: 2004) (United States of America)
NINCH aimed to ensure the full participation of the cultural sector in the new digitally networked environment. This site was a source of news, announcements of meetings and conferences and further resources.
http://www.ninch.org/
Historical National Preservation Office
The British Library (Last Updated: 2009) (United Kingdom)
The National Preservation Office was established in in 1984 and was supported by The British Library and other institutions in the UK. It aimed to provide an independent focus for ensuring the preservation and continued accessibility of library and archive material held in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It established a Digital Archiving Working Group (DAWG) and had a strong involvement in digital preservation issues. In 2009 it was integrated with the British Library Collection Care Department and the name changed to the British Library Preservation Advisory Centre.
The National Videogame Archive
The National Videogame Archive (Date Created: Sep 2008) (United Kingdom)
The NVA is a joint project between Nottingham Trent University’s Centre for Contemporary Play and the National Media Museum (UK). The Archive aims to collect, interpret, make accessible for study and research and, where possible, exhibit videogames and the associated ephemera and paraphernalia of videogame cultures. It aims to preserve, analyse and display the products of the global videogame industry by placing the games in their historical, social, political and cultural contexts.
http://www.nationalvideogamearchive.org/
NCDD Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation : Nationale Coalitie Digitale Duurzaamheid
Nationale Coalitie Digitale Duurzaamheid (Date Created: 2008) (Netherlands)
The Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation was established in early 2008 with ten members. It aims to establish a sustainable technical and organisational infrastructure in the Netherlands within the next 5 years and will serve as a platform for sharing knowledge & expertise. Its first strategic initiative is a survey to establish the status of digital preservation in the Netherlands.
http://www.ncdd.nl/en/
Available in English and Dutch language.
NDAD: UK National Digital Archive of Datasets
University of London Computing Centre (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
NDAD contains archived digital data from UK government departments and agencies. The system has been available since March 1998 and provides open access to the catalogues of all its holdings, and free access to open datasets following a simple registration process.
http://www.ndad.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Nestor : Kompetenznetzwerk Langzeitarchivierung : Network of Expertise in Digital Preservation
Nestor (Regularly Updated) (Germany)
Nestor, the German Network of Expertise in long term storage of digital information, began in June 2003 as a cooperative effort between six partners lead-managed by the German National Library (Die Deutsche Bibliothek). The goal was a permanent distributed infrastructure primarily for long term accessibility of digital resources and less so for pure preservation aspects, comparable to the Digital Preservation Coalition in the United Kingdom. Nestor provides a broad communication platform for all interested institutions as well as various guidelines for standardised digital preservation policies and coordinated activities to be utilised mostly within Germany and extended via international cooperation. The project phase ended in June 2009 with end of funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). As of 1 July 2009 six of the original partners plus 2 new organisations agreed to continue as a cooperation association.
http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/index.php?newlang=eng
Available in English and German Language versions
Netpreserve.org : International Internet Preservation Consortium
International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) (Regularly Updated)
The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) began in July 2003 with a group of twelve members including the national libraries of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, The British Library (UK), The Library of Congress (USA) and the Internet Archive (USA) and was coordinated by the Bibliotheque nationale de France. The membership has since expanded to include additional libraries, archives, museums and cultural institutions from around the world. The Consortium goals include advocacy for internet archiving initiatives and legislation, fostering development of common standards and internet archiving tools, and raising international awareness of internet preservation issues.
http://netpreserve.org/about/index.php
Historical NISO Committee AX : Development of an OpenURL Standard
Van de Velde, Eric (Date Created: 26 Jun 2003) (United States of America)
This website outlined National Information Standards Organisation’s (NISO) activities related to the standardisation of OpenURL. It contains the draft standard; implementation guidelines; the agenda, minutes, and associated documents relating to the proceedings of the Committee AX; press releases and presentations.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070108032806/http://library.caltech.edu/o
penurl/
Archived by the Internet Archive
NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite
National Centre for Biotechnology Information (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
A suite of XML Document Type Definitions created by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information. This DTD suite is intended to preserve the intellectual content of journals independent of the form in which the content was originally delivered. It provides a common format by which publishers and archives can exchange journal content. Complete documentation is available at the site and the suite of modules is available for download by FTP.
http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/
Historical NWA : Nordic Web Archive
Nordic Web Archive (NWA) (Last Updated: 31 Aug 2005)
The Nordic Web Archive (NWA) was a cooperative venture between the Nordic National Libraries to develop open source software to access archived web documents. The article includes links to more detailed descriptions of WERA (which replaced the NWA toolset) and Nutchwax search engine.
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OASIS (Online Archiving & Searching Internet Sources)
National Library of Korea (Regularly Updated) (Korea)
Website of the National Library of Korea's web archive, OASIS.
http://www.oasis.go.kr/
OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument)
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) (Date Created: May 2005)
The OASIS Open Document format is an XML-based file format specification for office applications. The OpenDocument v1.0 specification was officially approved as an OASIS standard on 1 May 2005 and can be downloaded from the Office Document Format Technical Committee web page.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office
OLAC (Open Language Archives Community)
Open Language Archives (Regularly Updated)
OLAC (Open Language Archives Community) is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources; and, developing a network of interoperating repositories and services for housing and accessing such resources.
http://www.language-archives.org/index.html
Images Online
Images Online gives instant access to thousands of the greatest images from the British Library's collections which include manuscripts, rare books, musical texts and maps spanning almost 3000 years. The range of images available include illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs.
Contact: Caroline Brazier
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/
(Contributor: British Library )
Online Computer Library Center Inc. (OCLC)
Online Computer Library Center Inc [OCLC] (Last Updated: 31 Jul 1999) (United States of America)
Furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs are the goals of OCLC. OCLC is a nonprofit computer service and research organisation whose network and services link more than 30,000 libraries in 65 countries and territories. OCLC services help libraries to locate, acquire, catalogue, access, and lend library materials. In July 2006 OCLC absorbed the Research Libraries Group (RLG).
http://www.oclc.org/home/
Online Gallery
An online showcase of 30,000 items from the British Library's collections, including virtual books using the Turning the Pages system.
Contact: Caroline Brazier
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/index.html
(Contributor: British Library )
Open Access Directory
Open Access Directory (Date Created: 30 Apr 2008) (United States of America)
This wiki was created for the open access community to create and maintain simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship. Lists can be updated by registered OAD contributors. The OAD is hosted and supported by Simmons College.
http://oad.simmons.edu/
Historical Open Archives Forum
Open Archives Forum (Date Created: 2003)
The Open Archives Forum (OAF) website is a valuable resource providing and promoting information and support to activities relating to open archives in Europe, particularly the Open Archives Initiative. The website includes information and reviews on technical issues relating to open archives, such as resource database which lists services, repositories, projects, software, organizations and metadata schemes; materials on the Open Archives Workshop Series, as well as other relevant reports and presentations. Also included is an online tutorial introducing the beginner to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting . The forum is no longer active.
http://www.oaforum.org/index.php
Open Content Alliance
Open Content Alliance (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Administered by the Internet Archive, participants in the Open Content Alliance (OCA) include cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world. The purpose of the Alliance is to build a permanent freely-searchable archive of multilingual digitized full text and multimedia content. Yahoo is also participating in the Alliance by indexing the content. The Alliance is governed by a set of principles one of which is concerned with the long term availability of the contents.
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/
Open Document Format : ODF Alliance
OpenDocument Format Alliance (Regularly Updated)
This alliance was formed in March 2006 from a coalition of over 30 organisations from around the world. ODF is an open standard to allow sustainable reading and exchange of common office documents. The goals of the ODF Alliance are to support and encourage the use of ODF in the public sector.
http://www.odfalliance.org/
Open Geospatial Consortium : OGC
Open Geospatial Consortium (Regularly Updated)
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of organizations which promotes the development and use of advanced open systems standards and techniques in the area of geoprocessing and related information technologies. Encouraging standard interface and encoding specifications enables interoperability among and between diverse geospatial data stores, services, and applications.
http://www.opengeospatial.org/
openARMS
openARMS Project (Regularly Updated) (Norway)
The openARMS (open-source Archival Resource Management System) project seeks to use the concepts of OAIS, including the information architecture and functional entities, to ensure long-term preservation of digital information objects. OpenArms is an XML-application, coded in Java. The first version of the program will concentrate on digital information objects migrated from proprietary database applications, as well as document repositories. The openARMS project is currently publicly funded in Norway and is in an early phase of development. Currently the website is in Norwegian only.
http://www.ikamr.no/content/view/full/385
OpenDOAR : Directory of Open Access Repositories
University of Nottingham, UK and the University of Lund, Sweden (Regularly Updated)
Developed by the University of Nottingham, UK and the University of Lund, Sweden, OpenDOAR is a directory of open access institutional and subject-based research repositories and archives. Each entry has several categories including country, subjects covered, content type and description.
http://www.opendoar.org/
OpenRAW : Digital Image Preservation Through Open Documentation
OpenRAW (Regularly Updated)
This website was initiated by a group of digital photographers as a reaction to proprietary raw file formats and the negative impact of these formats on digital preservation and future access. Currently, each manufacturer's format is proprietary and has multiple variations for different camera models. The goal of this organisation is to encourage camera manufacturers to publicly document their RAW image formats.
http://www.openraw.org/
OpenSIGLE : System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe
(Regularly Updated)
This open access online repository of metadata about European grey literature is a discovery resource. OpenSIGLE covers pure and applied science and technology, economics, other sciences and humanities. Since 2008, it includes metadata and attachments for GreyNet's International Conference Series on Grey Literature.
http://opensigle.inist.fr/
Our Digital Island: A Tasmanian Web Archive
State Library of Tasmania (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
Our Digital Island provides access to Tasmanian Web sites that have been preserved for posterity by the State Library of Tasmania, as required by the legal deposit provisions of the Libraries Act 1984. It includes sections on: Selection policy, Metadata development, and a description of the project.
http://odi.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/
Ourmedia : the Global Home for Grassroots Media
Ourmedia (Regularly Updated)
Ourmedia is a an open source personal digital archive project that hosts audio, video, text and images. The alpha version was released in 2005. Its partners include the Internet Archive, Bryght, Creative Commons and Wikipedia. Ourmedia is a free service, the only proviso in using this facility is that contributed works are made available globally. Ourmedia resources will be archived and stored on the Internet Archive so they will be guaranteed permanence and future access.
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New PACKED: Platform for the Archiving and Preservation of the Audiovisual Arts
PACKED (Date Created: Jan 2005) (Belgium)
This information platform was established in 2005 by argos – centre for art and media, the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, MuHKA) and the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art – Ghent (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, S.M.A.K.). The site includes information on projects, articles and case studies.
http://www.packed.be/en/
Available in English and Dutch language versions
PAD : Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination Project
Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) (Date Created: 2002)
PAD is intended to complement existing archiving research by filling a gap that has been identified by a survey. The gap identified is that electronic literature is not yet the focus of any major preservation effort, and many important aspects of preserving this type of work - such as how to maintain conditional sequencing of files delivered to the reader across different technical platforms - is not being addressed adequately. PAD proposes to fill this gap by adopting technologies and standards already in development and extending them in ways that will allow works of electronic literature (and other kinds of digital art objects) to have a long lifespan in a form as close to the original as possible and as useful material for scholarship.
http://www.eliterature.org/pad/
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PANDORA - Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources in Australia
National Library of Australia (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
PANDORA began as a project initiated by the National Library of Australia to investigate strategies and implement procedures for the capture, storage, preservation and access to digital data by creating an electronic archive of library materials. It is interested in capturing the full range of materials published online in Australia - including serials, newspapers and books, as well as unique online formats such as homepages (see also Digital Services Project). PANDORA is Australia's web archive managed by the Library with contributions from partners.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/
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PANIC (Preservation and Archival New Media and Interactive Collections) Project
MAENAD (Multimedia Access across Enterprises, Networks And Domains) (Last Updated: Jul 2005) (Australia)
This research project, undertaken by MAENAD (Multimedia Access across Enterprises, Networks And Domains) had several objectives including using case studies to compare various approaches to multimedia preservation, investigating ways to ensure the longevity of access to multimedia digital objects, determining optimum media formats and developing guidelines and metadata schemas for multimedia creators. Results of investigations include a set of test cases and a preservation metadata schema and input tool, based on METS and MODS and informed by the work of the Variable Media Initiative.
http://www.metadata.net/panic/
Paradigm : Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media
University of Oxford Bodleian Library and the University of Manchester John Rylands University Library (Date Created: Apr 2005) (United Kingdom)
This is a two-year exemplar project, from January 2005 to December 2006, to explore the issues involved in the long-term preservation of digital private papers. Using the digital papers of contemporary United Kingdom politicians, the project will test digital preservation tools and digital repositories, and produce an online Workbook on Digital Private Papers which includes template policies and procedures.
http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/
PDF/A Competence Center
PDF/A Competence Center (Date Created: 2006)
The PDF/A Competence Center was established as an international association in 2006 with the objective to promote the exchange of information and experience in the field of long-term archiving in accordance with ISO 19005 (PDF/A). Its members include companies and experts from 20 countries.
http://www.pdfa.org/
PEER - Publishing and the Ecology of European Research
PEER (Regularly Updated)
This European project is a collaboration between publishers, repositories and the research community, aimed to investigate the effects of the large-scale deposit (so called Green Open Access) on user access, author visibility, and journal viability. The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Gottingen State and University Library, the Max Planck Society and INRIA will collaborate on PEER, supported by the SURF Foundation and University of Bielefeld, which will contribute the expertise of the EU-funded DRIVER project. The project is funded to 2011.
http://www.peerproject.eu/
Persistent Identifier : eindeutige Bezeichner für digitale Inhalte
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Regularly Updated) (Germany)
Since 2001, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, formerly Die Deutsche Bibliothek (German National Library) has assigned, administered and resolved Persistent Identifiers (PIs) as part of the Uniform Resources Name (URN) system to online dissertations. This website provides general information on PIs and URNs as well as information on projects, management, statistics and structure of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek's system.
http://www.persistent-identifier.de/
Available in German and English language versions.
PLANETS : Digital Preservation Research and Technology
PLANETS (Regularly Updated)
Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services (Planets) is funded by the European Commission Information Science and Technologies Framework Programe 6 Call 5 (FP6 Call 5). The 4-year project started in June 2006 and has 16 partners. The purpose of the project is to ensure long term access to Europe's cultural and scientific digital heritage. The objectives of the project include the establishment of a preservation testbed, implementation of an interoperability framework and the development of preservation planning services.
http://www.planets-project.eu/
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Pligtaflevering : Bevar Nutiden For Fremtiden
Sektionen for Pligtaflevering, Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Regularly Updated) (Denmark)
The legal deposit home page of the Royal Library of Denmark, which is responsible for the cataloguing and storage of Danish maps, electronic products and Internet publications. The site has been designed for use by publishers to access information about Danish legal deposit law (particularly as it relates to the 1998 Act on Copyright Deposit of Published Works), and to submit and register details of electronic publications for deposit. The Royal Library uses the Internet addresses supplied therein to download material for deposit, and addition to the national bibliography.
http://www.pligtaflevering.dk/index.htm
Portico
Ithaka (Regularly Updated)
Formerly known as e-Archive, the Portico initiative was launched in 2005. Portico is a not for profit archive of born digital scholarly E-journals maintained by Ithaka Harbors Inc. One of the main goals of Portico is to ensure that electronic resources remain accessible in the future and it aims to do this by developing an economic model as the basis of long term sustainability; developing relationships with publishers who will deposit their publications in the archive; and develop a production and technological infrastructure that will support preservation and accessibility.
http://www.portico.org/
PREMIS : Preservation Metadata Maintenance Activity
PREMIS (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This is the official website of the maintenance activities for the PREMIS data dictionary and XML schema. The data dictionary and schemas are the final product of the PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) working group. In May 2005 the data dictionary and schemas began a period of trial use. The PREMIS maintenance activity is responsible for maintaining, supporting, and coordinating future revisions to the PREMIS data dictionary. In April 2008 version 2.0 of the Data Dictionary was released.
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/
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Preservation Digital Reformatting Program
The Library of Congress (Date Created: 29 Dec 1999) (United States of America)
This website contains policy information about the integration of digital technology with other options for developing preservation strategies at the Library of Congress. There are links to information about: selection criteria for digital preservation reformatting; digital reformatting principles and specifications; and the management of digital data for long-term accessibility.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/prd/presdig/presintro.html
Historical Preservation Guide
Wright, Richard (Last Updated: Dec 2006)
This extensive guide to audiovisual preservation is in the form of a wiki. It covers many areas including mapping archive holdings, developing a preservation strategy and preservation planning and budgeting and storage options. Much of the wiki uses information from PrestoSpace. Other sources of information will eventually be incorporated into the wiki. It is planned that entries will be able to be edited and maintained by the audiovisual preservation community. This is the original version created for BBC in May 2006 and migrated to PrestoSpace home (http://wiki.prestospace.org) in December 2006. This original site is no longer being updated.
http://www.bbcarchive.org.uk/pmwiki/
Preservation Resources
University of California In: Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE (Regularly Updated)
This website's compilation of resources includes: articles and papers, initiatives and projects, organisations, policies, news sources and tools relating to digital preservation. This site is sponsored by The Library, UC Berkeley and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Preservation/
Historical Presidential Electronic Records Pilot System (PERPOS)
Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory, Georgia Tech. Research Institute (Last Updated: Nov 2005) (United States of America)
The PERPOS project aimed to find ways of gaining archival control of electronic records which are deposited with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The initial project was to conduct research that would aid archivists in gaining intellectual and physical control of the user-created files contained on the George H. W. Bush PC hard drives. The second phase PERPOS II is modifying the tools that were developed for use with other projects.
http://perpos.gtri.gatech.edu/
PrestoSpace
PrestoSpace Consortium (Date Created: 2003)
This project, funded by the EU (from 1/2/04 for 40 months) and building upon earlier projects such as Presto, seeks to establish a framework for the digital preservation of audio-visual materials. The aim of the Project is to build ‘preservation factories’ which would provide an affordable infrastructure for institutions such as libraries and museums in order to manage, reduce costs, standardise processes and to provide access to their digital audio visual assets.
http://prestospace.org/
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PURL home page
Online Computer Library Center Inc. (OCLC) (Regularly Updated)
The Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL) was developed and implemented by the Online Computer Library Center Inc. (OCLC) as a naming and resolution service for general Internet resources. This site includes an overview of the PURL service, FAQs and details of the PURL-L mailing list. Organisations wishing to set up their own PURL resolver service can download the PURL software from this site.
http://purl.oclc.org/

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Reference Model for Digital Library Management Systems
DELOS (Regularly Updated)
This web page describes activity being undertaken by DELOS to define a Digital Library Management System (DLMS) reference model i.e. a formal and conceptual framework describing the characteristics of this particular type of information system. The model considers the architecture and functionality expected from an operational DLMS based on the experiences of DELOS research groups over time. The model identifies and characterizes key concepts of a DLMS, such as the information space, documents handled, user profile, services, architecture, etc. The page includes links to the latest versions of the model and events where the model is being refined.
http://www.delos.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=345
Repositories Support Project
Repositories Support Project (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
"The Repository Support Project is a JISC funded 2.5 year project to co-ordinate and deliver good practice and practical advice to English and Welsh HEIs to enable the implementation, management and development of digital institutional repositories." The website includes resources, briefing papers, case studies, a wiki, details of events.
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/
Historical Research Libraries Group (RLG)
Research Libraries Group (Last Updated: 2006)
Preservation was one of the focusses of the RLG's activities with the long-term retention of digital research materials comprising a key area. In July 2006 RLG merged with OCLC. Some programs are continuing as part of OCLC's RLG Programs.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070524112447/http://www.rlg.org/
Research Libraries UK (RLUK)
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) was built on the foundations of CURL (Consortium of University Research Libraries). Its mission is to ensure the UK has the best research library support in the world.
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/
reUSE
Universität Innsbruck (Last Updated: Jun 2006)
reUSE was a cooperative project of libraries and universities from Austria, Estonia, Germany and Slovenia funded through the European Commission eContent Programme (June 2004 to June 2006). The reUSE partners focussed on the publications of public sector institutions such as government, universities and research institutions. Printed material and the digital originals will be collected, preserved and made available. Part of the project included four demonstrator services which were designed to operate permanently after the project itself was completed. Reports and publications including the final evaluation report are available.
http://www2.uibk.ac.at/reuse/
Rhizome.org : the New Media Art Resource
Rhizome.org (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Rhizome.org is a non-profit organisation which aims to preserve electronic art. The organisation provides access to new media art by providing a free online platform where artists can display their art. Rhizome Users must register to view the online art. Established in 1996 it affiliated the the New Museum in 2003.
http://rhizome.org/info/index.php
RODA : Repositorio de Objectos Digitais Autenticos
National Archive Institute of Portugal (Regularly Updated) (Portugal)
This project, undertaken by the National Archive Institute of Portugal (IAN/TT), aims to develop the processes, tools and resources that will enable Portuguese public administration institutions to preserve their digital data. A prototype will be developed which will serve as the basis for development of a fully functional solution capable of ingesting and managing digital objects. A demonstration prototype of the open source digital repository was publicly released in June 2009 and the source code made available in August 2009.
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SaveMyMemories.org
International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) (Date Created: 2007)
This web site developed by the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) provides guidance for preservation, storage and archiving of personal digital photos.
http://www.savemymemories.org/Default.aspx
Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN)
Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
SCRAN's mission is to create a fully searchable resource base of Scottish material culture and human history. Funded by the Millennium Commission, it works with project partners such as museums, galleries, archives and universities to digitise selected parts of their collections.
http://www.scran.ac.uk/
Section 108 Study Group
Library of Congress (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Section 108 Working Group was sponsored by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and the U.S. Copyright Office, both part of the Library of Congress. The purpose of this group was to recommend changes to the US copyright law that recognise the need for exceptions to the law for libraries and archives in the digital age. This is especially important for the collection, preservation and accessibility of born digital material. The website has links to the relevant section of the Act as well as background papers findings and recommendations on how to revise the copyright law in order to ensure an appropriate balance among the interests of creators and other copyright holders, libraries and archives. The final report was released in March 2008.
http://www.loc.gov/section108/
Historical SEPIA: Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access
ERPANET (Last Updated: Nov 2003)
This website focuses on the preservation of photographic materials, including issues to consider when digitising a collection. Ten recommendations are given for institutions undertaking digitisation projects. The site also provides links to resources about digital preservation. The Sepia project completed in November 2003.
http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia/
Services of the Preservation Research and Testing Division
Library of Congress (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This is a brief summary of the Library of Congress' testing and monitoring projects for CDs and magnetic media, initiated in late 1995. Project objectives included developing guidelines for storage conditions that would maximize the useful life of CDs. Links included to papers describing project outcomes.
http://www.loc.gov/preserv/rt/
Society for Imaging Science and Technology
Society for Imaging Science and Technology (Regularly Updated)
The Society for Imaging Science and Technology is "an international non-profit society whose goal is to keep members aware of the latest scientific and technological developments in the field of imaging through conferences, journals and other publications".
http://www.imaging.org/
Society of Archivists Film Sound and Photography Group
Society of Archivists Film Sound and Photography Group (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
Society of Archivists' Film and Sound Group was established in 1994. In 2005 the Group extended its remit to include photographs and was renamed The Film Sound and Photography Group.
http://www.archives.org.uk/thesociety/specialinterestgroups/filmsounda
ndphotographygroup.html
Software Preservation Society (SPS)
Software Preservation Society (Regularly Updated)
The Software Preservation Society aims to preserve all commercial games in their original format for various systems. The focus is on systems using removable magnetic disk technology, such as the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, IBM-PC, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. The site features an extensive FAQ, technical details and articles on the preservation of physical format digital games.
http://www.softpres.org/?id=home
Historical SORRT : Sustainable Object Repositories for Research and Teaching
University of Sydney Library (Date Created: 2004) (Australia)
Coordinated by the University of Sydney, SORRT is the Practices and Testbed project of APSR (Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories).
http://sorrt.library.usyd.edu.au/
Sound Directions : Digital Preservation and Access for Global Audio Heritage
Indiana University Digital Library Program (Last Updated: Nov 2008) (United States of America)
Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music and the Archive of World Music at Harvard University were awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a collaborative research and development project designed to create best practices, examine existing best practices and test emerging standards in the digital preservation of critically endangered archival audio recordings. Phase 1 produced a publication on best practices Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation; software tools; development of audio preservation systems; and preservation of a number of critically endangered recordings. To aid selection for preservation the Field Audio Collection Evaluation Tool (FACET), a point-based open source tool for ranking collections based on deterioration and risk was developed. Formats considered are mainly analog but also included is Digital Audio Tape (DAT). Phase 2 the Preservation Phase will wrap up in November 2008.
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/
Standards and Guidelines : an E-directory
Collections Council of Australia Ltd (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
Standards and Guidelines : an E-Directory also known as SAGE is a dynamic online directory to standards and guidelines of relevance to the Australian collections sector. The directory is developed and published by the Collections Council of Australia Ltd. Although it is not strictly limited to digital collections, it contains many resources that do apply to digital collections.
http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=657
Standards for Libraries
National Library of Australia
This site provides links to information about library and related standards, to lists of standards, and to key standards bodies.
http://www.nla.gov.au/services/stndard3.html
State Government Digital Preservation Profiles
Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany (Date Created: 2006) (United States of America)
This web based resource provides access to U.S. state government digital preservation profiles. The information was collected by the Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany as part of the CTG's State Government Digital Information Preservation Survey. The profiles are part of the Library of Congress Collaboration for Preservation of State Government Digital Information.
http://www.ctg.albany.edu/publications/reports/digital_preservation_pr
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Profiles can be searched and downloaded in pdf from this web site
Still Images: Managing a Project
JISC Digital Media (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
The project management section of the JISC Digital Media (formerly TASI) website contains a comprehensive set of introductory and detailed case studies covering many aspects of digital project management and advice on copyright. Although focusing on images many issues are relevant to a range of digital projects.
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/docs/category/managing-a
-project/
STORS : Long Term Storage of Tasmanian Electronic Documents : Stable Tasmanian Open Repository Service
State Library of Tasmania (Australia)
STORS – the Stable Tasmanian Open Repository Service is an open jurisdictional repository for published electronic material (individual documents not websites) which operates within the legal deposit provisions of Tasmania (Australia) which was developed by the State Library of Tasmania. Further information on its development is available in D-Lib article (Sokvitne & Lavelle, June 2004).
http://www.stors.tas.gov.au/logon.do
Submissions to the 2007 Discussion Paper on the Extension of Legal Deposit
Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (Date Created: 02 May 2008) (Australia)
This Web page has links to the submissions received in response to the ‘2007 Discussion Paper on the Extension of Legal Deposit’ published by the Australian Attorney-General's Department and Dept. of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy, which closed on Friday 2 May 2008.
http://www.arts.gov.au/public_consultation/discussion_paper_on_the_ext
ension_of_legal_deposit_of_library_material/submissions
Historical Sun Center of Excellence for Trusted Digital Repositories
Austrian Literature Online ; Humboldt University, Berlin; Sun Microsystems; XiCrypt (Last Updated: Dec 2006)
The Sun Center of Excellence for Trusted Digital Repositories is a joint project between Humboldt University (Germany), Austrian Literature Online (ALO), XiCrypt (Austria) and Sun Microsystems (USA). The Center of Excellence is based on the previous work and implementations of the partners, such as the Humboldt University document and publication server, the Xades implementation for long-term preservation of digital signatures developed at XiCrypt, and the digital repository software implemented by ALO. The Center will develop a framework to handle preservation mechanisms within a trusted digital archive, a user interface for accessing the trusted digital archives and methods to apply digital signatures and time stamps to the digital documents.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.coe.hu-berlin.de/
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
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Sustainability of Digital Formats Planning for Library of Congress Collections
Arms, Caroline R.; Fleischhauer, Carl (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This website provides information on the suitability of various formats for preserving the Library of Congress's digital collections. Formats are examined for still images, sound recordings, textual content, and moving images, although it is planned to examine more complex digital works such as web sites. Formats are examined using several factors including tranperancy, technical protection, patents, self-documentation and external dependencies.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/index.shtml

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TAPE : Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe
European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) (Last Updated: 2008)
This 3 year project, running from 2004 to 2007, was funded by the Culture 2000 Program of the European Union. The European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) was the coordinator of the project. TAPE focused on the preservation and digitization of moving image and sound in a programme of training events, expert meetings, research and publications.
http://www.tape-online.net/
Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries
International Council for Science, Committee on Data for Science and Technology (Regularly Updated)
Established in 2002, and originally called the Task Group on Preservation and Archiving of Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries the objectives of the Task Group include the "promotion and understanding of the particular conditions in developing countries with regard to long-term preservation, archiving, and access to scientific and technical (S&T) data; the advancement of improved archiving procedures, technologies, standards, and policies; the provision of an interdisciplinary forum and mechanisms for exchanging information about S&T data archiving requirements and activities, with particular focus on the concerns of developing countries; and the dissemination of the results of these efforts." The Task Group regularly convenes conferences and workshops. Task Group name changed in May 2005 to Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries.
http://www.codata.org/taskgroups/TGpreservation/index.html
Historical Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)
TASI (Last Updated: 08 Feb 2009) (United Kingdom)
TASI was a service funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) set up to advise and support the academic community on the digital creation, storage and delivery of image-related information. Its web site ( http://www.tasi.ac.uk/) provided information relevant to those interested in preserving access to digital images and links to other resources. On 9 February 2009 it was rebranded as JISC Digital Media and content was extended to moving images and sound.
Ten Thousand Year Blog
Mattison, David (Regularly Updated)
This blog (web log) was created in June 2003 and is owned and maintained by an archivist, David Mattison. The blog includes comments and links to news and resources on digital preservation, digital libraries, digital records, intellectual property rights and e learning. The site also provides commentary on current trends in online information preservation and management. Both email and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) subscriptions are available for the Blog's updates. The archived version of the blog for the period June 2003 to September 2008 is available.
http://davidmattison.ca/
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Testbed Digitale Bewaring / Digital Preservation Testbed
Digitale Duurzaamheid (Last Updated: 11 Apr 2002) (Netherlands) Has papers: From Digital Volatility to Digital Permanence : Preserving Spreadsheets ; From Digital Volatility to Digital Permanence : Preserving Databases ; XML and Digital Preservation ; From Digital Volatility to Digital Permanence : Preserving Text Documents ; From Digital Volatility to Digital Permanence : Costmodel ; E-Mail-XML Demonstrator: Technical Description
Part of a wider Digitale Duurzaamheid (Digital Longevity) programme, the Digital Preservation Testbed was established by the Dutch Government to research approaches for the long-term preservation of archival records. It is experimenting with a range of document formats in researching migration, emulation and the use of XML as approaches to long-term preservation and aims to examine the effectiveness, limitations, costs and potential for application of each approach. The Testbed pages in either Dutch or English may be accessed by following the Testbed Digitale Bewaring link from the main page.
http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/home.cfm
textMD Technical Metadata for Text
Library of Congress (Date Created: Oct 2007) (United States of America)
This XML schema has been maintained by the Library of Congress since October 2007. TextMD was originally created by the New York University Digital Library Team. It is endorsed by METS and commonly used as an extension schema with METS adminstrative metadata section but also can be used alone or in the future with PREMIS. The schema is focused on documenting technical metadata for text based objects including OCR files.
http://www.loc.gov/standards/textMD/
Historical Time and Bits : Discussion and Proceedings
(Last Updated: Apr 2000) (United States of America)
Although somewhat dated now, this website includes links to background papers, discussion and articles arising out of the Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity conference sponsored by the Getty Conservation Institute and Getty Information Institute, in collaboration with the Long Now Foundation in February 1998.
http://www.longnow.org/projects/conferences/time-and-bits/
Tomba : Portuguese Web Archive
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (Regularly Updated) (Portugal)
This prototype was developed as a research project at the University of Lisbon. The tumba! search engine has been crawling the Portuguese web since 2002. Tomba archives and provides access to all new pages and the different versions of previous pages.
http://tomba.tumba.pt/index_en.html
Towards a New Meta Standard for Long Term Digital Video Preservation
Pearson, Glenn (Date Created: 12 Dec 2005)
This is a series of links to documents for consideration about ways to encourage lossless video encoding for preservation, with a particular interest in JPEG 2000 frame encodings.
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/VideoArchivists2005/follow-on.html
Treasures in Full
High-quality digital editions showcasing how the British Library is providing online access to rare historic works such as the Magan Carta and the Gutenberg Bible.
Contact: Caroline Brazier
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/treasuresinfull.html
(Contributor: British Library )
TrustDR: Trust in Digital Repositories
TrustDR (Last Updated: 2007) (United Kingdom)
The TrustDR project aimed to examine the practical issues in setting up digital rights management systems (DRM) in repositories of digital learning objects. It was a 2 year project (June 2005 to May 2007) led by Ulster University and funded by JISC as part of the Digital Repositories Programme. The website includes analysis and links to useful papers, reports relevant to IPR in digital repositories in the UK HE sector.
http://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/index.php
Tufts & Yale : Fedora and the Preservation of University Records
Tufts University; Yale University (Last Updated: Oct 2006) (United States of America)
The Digital Collections and Archives of Tufts University in partnership with Manuscripts and Archives of Yale University undertook a project to develop a system capable of preserving university electronic documents. The 18 month project aimed to test the potential of Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture) to underpin the sytem, with particular focus on supporting archival preservation and access standards.
http://dca.lib.tufts.edu/features/nhprc/index.html
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Typed Object Model (TOM)
University of Pennsylvania Library (Date Created: 2004) (United States of America)
Developed by the University of Pennsylvania Library, TOM (Typed Object Model) is a data format management system that describes the structure and behavior of a wide variety of data formats and information services. In 2003 and 2004 there was a Mellon Foundation funded initiative to apply this model to support online learning and digital preservation. TOM can be used to document data formats and services and assist in data format migration and other conversions. TOM's core software is being released as open source. This website has links to TOM's data model, standards and documentation.
http://web.archive.org/web/*hh_/tom.library.upenn.edu/

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UK Government Web Archive
The National Archives (UK) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This archive started as a one year project comprised of a selection of 50 UK government websites archived since August 2003 at varying intervals by the Internet Archive on behalf of The National Archives. Evaluation of the results of the project were used to inform policy and best practice for future archiving of government websites by The National Archives. Since 2005 archiving has been undertaken by contract to the European Archive. In November 2008 a program to archive UK central government websites 3 times per year was started. Additionally sites reflecting topical themes and issues of public interest have been collected into themed collections.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/archivedwebsites.htm
UK Web Archive
The UK Web Archive collaborative archiving by leading UK institutions of selected UK websites for their historical, social and cultural significance in the UK has archived over 4,000 websites since 1985. Five partners collaborate to build the UK Web Archive - British Library, National Library of Wales, JISC, Wellcome Library, National Archives. The archive also contains websites selected by the National Library of Scotland up to the end of 2007.
Contact: Philip Beresford
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/
(Contributor: British Library )
UK Web Archiving Consortium
United Kingdom Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) (Date Created: Jun 2004) (United Kingdom)
The UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) comprises 6 UK institutions including the British Library, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), National Archives, Wellcome Trust and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales. The project will run for 2 years during which approximately 6,000 websites will be collected and archived. PANDAS software, developed by the National Library of Australia, will be used to carry out the archiving process. The purpose of the project is not only to collect and archive web sites that are relevant to the Consortium’s interests, but to develop compatible selection policies as well as to investigate the complex technical challenges involved in collecting and archiving web material.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/
UKOLN Metadata
Day, Michael In: Cedars : Curl Exemplars in Digital Archives Project (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
A general metadata site providing links to projects, initiatives, registries and resources including some software tools for handling metadata and a glossary.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/
UKOLN: The UK Office for Library and Information Networking
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
UKOLN is 'a national focus of expertise in digital information management.' Based at the University of Bath, it provides policy, research and awareness services to the UK library, information and cultural heritage communities.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
Usenet Archive
Google
An archive of over 700 million Usenet messages reaching back to 1981, made available by the search engine company Google, through Google Groups.
http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en

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Historical VALA 2000 - Conference Papers
Victorian Association for Library Automation (Date Created: Feb 2000) (Australia) Has papers: Electronic Records, Problem Solved? : the Victorian Electronic Records Strategy and the Future of Electronic Record Keeping in Victoria
Conference papers from the 2000 Victorian Association for Library Automation conference. Papers available.
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2000/2000pprs/prog2000.htm
Variable Media Network
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation; Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology (Date Created: Jan 2004) (United States of America)
Committed to implementing the Guggenheim Museum’s unconventional preservation strategy, the Variable Media Network is a group of cultural institutions in the USA which looks at developing tools, methods and standards needed to realise this scheme. The Guggenheim approach involves encouraging artists to define their work independently from medium, that is to pass on guidelines for recasting their art work in a new form once the original has expired. The website outlines the initiative, gives examples of past and future case studies and provides information on events related to this field.
http://www.variablemedia.net/
Vefsafn.is
National and University Library of Iceland (Date Created: 30 Sep 2009) (Iceland)
The Icelandic Web Archive owned and maintained by the National and University Library of Iceland, has been collecting snapshots of Icelandic websites since 2004. It was opened for public access in September 2009. Access to the collection is via a Wayback Machine like the one used by the Internet Archive.
http://vefsafn.is/index.php?page=english
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Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) : Version 2
Public Record Office Victoria (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
This web site has links to the standard "Management of Electronic Records", its supporting specifications and the explanatory advices, which were revised in July 2003. The five supporting specifications include system requirements for preserving electronic records, metadata, standard electronic record format, long term preservation formats and export of electronic records to PROV (Public Record Office Victoria). Specification 4 was updated to include PDF/A,JPEG, JPEG-2000, MPEG-4 in Aug 2006 and Specification 5 was updated for the PROV's new digital Archive.
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/vers/standard/version2.asp
Video Preservation
Frost, Hannah (ed.) In: CoOL Conservation OnLine : Resources for Conservation Professionals (Regularly Updated)
A bibliography of resources on the preservation of video recordings, maintained on the Conservation Online (CoOL) website. The bibliography includes resources on video media and formats, care and preservation best practice guidelines, as well as resources on digital video formats and organisations involved in video preservation.
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/video/
Video Preservation Website
Messier, Paul; Vitale, Timothy (Date Created: 2007) (United States of America)
This website encourages preservation of historic video using digital capture to create individual video files, which would be stored on mass storage media such as hard drives (HDD) or data tape (DT). The site includes images and documentation for historic videotape equipment.
http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/index.html
VidiPax
Vidipax (Regularly Updated)
Website of the VidiPax company, a commercial organisation specialising in the restoration and remastering of magnetic video and audio tapes, including the transfer of obsolete recordings to modern formats.
http://www.vidipax.com/index.html
Historical Virtual Data Center (VDC)
Harvard-MIT Data Center (Last Updated: 2006) (United States of America)
The Virtual Data Center (VDC) was developed by the Harvard-MIT Data Center and the Harvard University Library. The VDC was an open-source digital library system for the management, dissemination, exchange and citation of quantitive data. It was updated and maintained through Sourceforge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/thedata. Features include data format conversion, persistent naming and metadata harvesting. This project ran from 1999 to 2006 and was succeeded by the Dataverse Network Project.
http://thedata.org/vdc/
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Historical Virtual Remote Control
Cornell University (United States of America)
Virtual Remote Control (VRC) was a research initiative to develop a risk management approach to providing access to Web resources over time, including setting up a model, framework as well as identifying tools that can help institutions deal with the web material. VRC model can include the capturing of web sites, but that is not its essential component, since organisations using it may wish only to monitor web sites due to possible legal technical and other limitations. Site includes evaluations of available web tools. VRC emerged from Cornell University's participation in Project Prism.
http://irisresearch.library.cornell.edu/VRC/index.html
Visual Resources Association
(Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Visual Resources Association is a non-profit organisation established to further knowledge, research, and education in the field of visual information resources. The diverse membership stays informed about latest technologies, copyright issues, cataloging standards, metadata, scanning, web pages, digital preservation and educational opportunities. It also produces a quarterly Bulletin, annual directory and runs an annual conference and email discussion list. Regional chapters convene local meetings and workshops.
http://www.vraweb.org/

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Historical W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (Last Updated: 2004)
This site summarizes the work of the RDF Core Working Group which ceased in 2004. The page provides the official overview of the RDF initiative, providing links to versions of the specifications and other useful information sources. Follow up activities are available from the Semantic Web Activity home page.
http://www.w3.org/RDF/Overview.html
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
W3C (Regularly Updated)
The W3C, an international industry consortium, aims to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.
http://www.w3.org/
WARP
National Diet Library (Japan) (Regularly Updated) (Japan)
This is a National Diet Library of Japan project. WARP is an experimental project that collects and preserves Japanese websites and online periodicals on the Internet. Most of the information is available in Japanese only.
http://warp.ndl.go.jp/
Web Archive Collection Service (WAX)
Harvard University Library (Date Created: 04 Feb 2009) (United States of America)
The Web Archive Collection Service ( WAX) at Harvard University Library began as a pilot service in 2006 and became a production service in February 2009. The service supports the collection of selected web content to ensure its long term preservation and accessibility for teaching and research. Harvard libraries, museums and archives are eligible to use the WAX Service. The public service was made available September 2009. More information available from http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/wax
http://wax.lib.harvard.edu
Web Archive Singapore (WAS)
National Library Board Singapore (Regularly Updated) (Singapore)
The website of Web Archive Singapore was officially launched in October 2006 by the National Library Board of Singapore. Phase 1 of the project was aimed at archiving .sg websites meeting selection criteria of national and historical significance, authoritative and research value and social and cultural significance.
http://was.nl.sg/
Web Archivering / Web Archiving
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands)
This web site describes the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's web archiving program. The KB began selective archiving in 2006. The project is described, and there are links to information about selection, technical and legal aspects and related documents.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_projecten/webarchivering/index.html
Available in Dutch and English versions (http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_projecten/webarchivering/index-en.html)
New Web Archives : Yesterday's Web; Today's Archives
California Digital Library (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This website (which was opened to the public in July 2009) includes web archives created with the California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service, and includes web archives and documents from the State of California archived by ten institutions.
http://webarchives.cdlib.org/
Web Archiving
Library of Congress (Date Created: May 2006) (United States of America)
This web site, developed and maintained by the Library of Congress, includes information on its program to capture and preserve historically important Web sites such as US congressional website, Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War. The website has links to technical information, guidelines for the harvesting process, FAQs and the Project partners. The Web Archiving Program, formerly called the Web Capture Program, and its partners are developing a common set of Web capture tools in four areas: curator selection, verification and permissions; acquisition; collection storage and maintenance; and access.
http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/
Web Archiving @ the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
This is the University of Melbourne's web site which describes its corporate web archiving activities. Included are links to related policies, an overview of the program, technical aspects and a search facility for available content.
http://www.unimelb.edu.au/records/web-archiving/
Web Archiving Programme
The Web Archiving Programme has been set up to put in place systems that enable the British Library to become the point of first resort for anyone who wants to access a comprehensive archive of material from the UK Web domain. The programme will ensure the archive will be accessible forever.
Contact: Helen Hockx-Yu
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/digi/webarch/index.html
(Contributor: British Library )
Web InfoMall
Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Laboratory , Beijing University (Regularly Updated) (China)
InfoMall is the Chinese web archiving project. It currently holds 0.7 billion pages (10.6 terabyte) together with 5 terabyte of digital web resources other than web pages. It has a storage capacity to hold more than 10 billion pages (150 terabytes). Its main tasks are to permanently collect web pages into a repository, provide free access to the archived data and provide an open testbed to encourage multidisciplinary study. Most of the site is in Chinese, although the search interface has an English version.
http://www.infomall.cn/index-eng.htm
WebArchiv - Archive of the Czech Web
National Library of the Czech Republic (Regularly Updated) (Czech Republic)
The Archive of Czech web resources, known as WebArchiv, was established to selectively archive the Czech domain based on a voluntary deposit agreement with authors and publishers. There are links to documentation (mainly in Czech) and selection criteria.
http://en.webarchiv.cz/
WebArchivist.org
University of Washington and SUNY Institute of Technology (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Based at the University of Washington and the SUNY Institute of Technology this organisation focuses on research and software development. The organisation develops tools and strategies for studying the ephemeral Web.
http://www.webarchivist.org/about.htm
WePreserve
WePreserve (Regularly Updated)
The WePreserve web site provides information on the synergistic activities of DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval (CASPAR), and Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services (PLANETS), including training initiatives and events. It is hosted by Humanities Advanced Technology And Information Institute at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
http://www.wepreserve.eu/
Working Group II : Implementation Strategies : PREMIS (PREservation Metadata : Implementation Strategies)
OCLC (Date Created: 2003)
This working group which is no longer active was sponsored by OCLC and RLG. It addressed implementation issues for preservation metadata. The website includes background information on this working group and the earlier working group (Preservation Metadata Framework Working Group), plus the products of the working groups activities (the PREMIS Data Dictionary) and links to the PREMIS Maintenance Activity.
http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/

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Historical Z39.50 Resource Page
National Information Standards Organization (U.S.) (Regularly Updated)
NISO Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol (Z39.50/ISO 23950) is a computer protocol that can be implemented on any platform and defines a standard way for two computers to communicate for the purpose of information retrieval. A Z39.50 implementation enables one interface to access multiple systems providing the end-user with nearly transparent access to other systems. It supports full-text search but also supports large, complex information collections. This regularly updated resource page provided a comprehensive set of links and information about the Z39.50 standard.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070813182909/http://www.niso.org/standard
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