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Subject:    Two Major Reports on Digital Preservation
From:       GMCKIERN () gwgate ! lib ! iastate ! edu (Gerry Mckiernan)
Date:       2000-07-30 15:38:02
Message-ID: s9843de9.019 () 129 ! 186 ! 11 ! 21
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           _Two Major Reports on Digital Preservation_

   I recently learned about two major reports relating to the issues surrounding \
digital preservation and believe that they will be of interest to MyWebColleagues.

  The first of these was prepared by Gail Hodge of Information International \
Associates on behalf of the International Council for Scientific and Technical \
Information  (ICSTI) [http://www.icsti.org/ ]. The publication, _Digital Electronic \
Archiving: The State of the Art and the State of the Practice_ was published in April \
1999. It is accessible at the following addresses:

             http://www.icsti.org/icsti/whats_new.html 

             http://www.icsti.org/icsti/99ga/digarch99_TOCP.pdf 
                     [Table of Contents]

             http://www.icsti.org/icsti/99ga/digarch99_ExecP.pdf 
                     [Executive Summary]

             http://www.icsti.org/icsti/99ga/digarch99_MainP.pdf 
                      [Main Report]

  The second is a report prepared by a committee for the National Academy of Sciences \
(NAS) and provides recommendations on the digital preparedness and the Library of \
Congress in collecting and preserving digital resources. A general summary of the \
report recently appeared in the New York Times on July 27 2000 ["Saving The Nation's \
Digital Legacy" / by Katie Hafner  ( \
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/circuits/articles/27libr.html )

[NB: This article was also published as "Library of Congress Lags in Archiving \
Digital Preservation" in the July 26th NYTimes Web edition ]

[NOTE: A free account is required to access this article]

The title of the report is _LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress_. \
The Library of Congress (LoC) commissioned the study. The report's  recommendations \
are more fully described in a press release available from the LoC \
[http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2000/00-100.html ]

  A *pre-publication* copy of the report is available at:

       http://www.nap.edu/books/0309071445/html/

/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck@iastate.edu 

         "Life is What Happens While You're Making Other Plans"


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