Two Major Reports on Digital Preservation

Gerry Mckiernan GMCKIERN at gwgate.lib.iastate.edu
Sun Jul 30 15:38:02 EDT 2000


           _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 at iastate.edu 

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



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