KRDS Digital Preservation Benefits Analysis Toolkit now available
http://beagrie.com/krds-i2s2.php The KRDS-I2S2 Digital Preservation Benefits Analysis Project is pleased to announce the release of the KRDS Digital Preservation Benefits Analysis Toolkit. Development of the toolkit has been funded by JISC. The worksheets, guidance documentation and exemplar test cases can be downloaded from the project website: http://beagrie.com/krds-i2s2.php The Toolkit consists of two tools: the KRDS [...]
Read MoreGRDI 2020
http://www.grdi2020.eu There’s a web site at http://www.grdi2020.eu which aggregates a wealth of interesting reports, and other materials dealing with the development of research data management in Europe and beyond. Of particular interest will be the Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures and Roadmap, which is really a broader survey that covers much more than data management, [...]
Read MoreMetaArchive
http://www.metaarchive.org/
The MetaArchive Cooperative provides low-cost, high-impact preservation services to help ensure the long-term accessibility of the digital assets of universities, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions
New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/nrnt_digital_curation17mar11.pdf
ARL) has published “Digital Curation for Preservation,” the first report in its new series, New Roles for New Times. Authored by Tyler Walters and Katherine Skinner, the report looks at how…
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010/Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010
http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2010.htm Digital Scholarship has released the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010. This 466-page book presents over 3,800 selected English-language articles, books, and other textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. It covers digital copyright, digital libraries, digital preservation, digital rights management, digital repositories, economic issues, electronic books and [...]
Read MoreLasting Change: Sustaining Digital Scholarship and Culture in Canada
http://www.cwrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Lasting-Change-Knowledge-Synthesis.pdf This report reflects the growing concern in the scholarly and cultural communities, and beyond, regarding the sustainability of Canada’s digital knowledge and heritage. Canada’s digital advantage is only of value if it can be carried into the future. Canadians must meet the challenge of preserving and enhancing scholarly and artistic knowledge production and our [...]
Read MoreDigital Preservation & Archivematica
“Apologies for any cross-posting. Just wanted to shed a bit of light on a presentation that my colleague, Slavko Manojlovich from Memorial University, St. John’s, NF and I recently made in Toronto: http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/libr_pres/29/ Included is a broad summary of the digital preservation landscape from a mostly European perspective followed by some of the initial work [...]
Read MoreFebruary 2011 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201102.pdf In this issue: *Two new personal archiving videos are now available *A profile of the National Library of New Zealand’s National Digital Heritage Archive *An overview of the new design and updates for the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative website *Findings from a survey on digital preservation training *An overview of a recent meeting [...]
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