Issue no. 17 (September 02007-February 02008) of What Is New in Digital Preservation bulletin
As announced on various mailing lists (02008 04 04):
Issue no. 17 (September 2007 – February 2008) of the DPC “What’s New in Digital Preservation” bulletin is now available from the Digital Preservation Coalition Web site:
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/issue17.html
“What’s New” will also be available shortly on the following website:
National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/index.html
“What’s New” is a summary of selected recent activity in the field of digital preservation, compiled by Najla Semple for the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC).
Issue 17 features news from a range of organisations and initiatives, including the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), Digital Curation Centre (DCC), JISC (UK), The National Archives (UK), The National Library of Scotland (NLS), The British Library (BL), PLANETS (Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services), nestor (Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources), DPE (Digital Preservation Europe), Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), the recently formed Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD), the US National Science Foundation (NSF),the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIPP) and the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC).
The bulletin also includes two new sections on Digital Preservation and the Information Profession and Digital Preservation Life Cycle as well as summaries of recent publications on the themes of digital preservation directions, large scale digital preservation, file formats, effective environment data management and more.
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