[DOC] DLF report "Preserving the Whole"

[Terry Kuny]

A new report from the Digital Library Federation explores options 
for salvaging quantitative data stored in technically obsolete 
formats and its associated documentation stored on paper.
  
"Preserving the Whole: A Two-Track Approach to Rescuing Social 
Science Data and Metadata" reports on a project at Yale University 
to migrate - or move into currently accessible formats - public 
option survey data collected and encoded in the 1970's.

"Preserving the Whole" is available on the Web site of the Digital 
Library Federation: 

http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm 

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CLIR) for $15 prepaid, including postage and handling.
  
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