Announcements

The publication gives a detailed overview of the current state of the German Grid Initative with emphasis on the long-term strategic grid research and development activities for academia and industry. To download

Storing and curating authentic academic literature and making it accessible for the long term has been a time-honoured task of national libraries.his document examines key determinants of the sustainable digital preservation of scholarly records, with specific reference to developing a robust approach to the archiving of such records at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Netherlands. More Info

The University of Tennessee Digital Library Center has released version 1.2 of the DLC-MODS Workbook under a GNU General Public License. A demo is also available. More Info

The release includes DSpace (1.5 only) and Fedora implementations, GUI/CLI clients, and the common Java library. More Info

The study presents data from 56 institutional digital repositories from eleven countries. The 121-page study presents more than 200 tables of data and commentary and is based on data from higher education libraries and other institutions involved in institutional digital repository development. More Info

The National Archives is pleased to announce the release of major new versions of its PRONOM technical registry and DROID automatic file format identification tool. The latest version of PRONOM has also been designed to provide a characterisation registry service to the EC-funded Planets project. More Info

IST-Africa 2008 takes place 14 - 16 May 2008 in Windhoek, Namibia. Part of the IST-Africa Initiative, which is supported by the European Commission under the IST Programme of Framework Programme 6 (FP6). Online submission deadline for full paper or workshop proposal: 09 November 2007 Acceptance decision: 18 January 2008 More Info

iPRES2007 was holded in October 11-12, 2007, at the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. See presentations here

The annual international conference and course Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. More info and deadlines for submission

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today (October 8th) announced the formation of the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, Sun PASIG, to bring together global leaders in government, broadcasting, education, and library services to share best practices for digital archiving.
Founding members of the Sun PASIG include The Alberta Library, The British Library, Johns Hopkins University, University of Oxford, Stanford University, The Texas Digital Library, and other leading global libraries and universities.
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An innovative tool to analyse and identify computer file formats has won the 2007 Digital Preservation Award. The prize was given to The National Archives for its work on active preservation through the development of two tools: the PRONOM Technical Registry and DROID file format identification.
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The newsletter describes the project’s first annual review, project progress, the new project manager, the second annual joint conference with CASPAR and DPE, as well as the goals for the coming months. Find the newletter here

This selective bibliography presents over 3,120 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.
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Issue no. 16 (April - August 2007) of the DPC/PADI "What's New in Digital Preservation" bulletin is now available from the Digital Preservation Coalition Web site and the National Library of Australia's PADI Web site here

Xena digital preservation software is a free and open source tool for digital preservation. Xena may be used as a desktop application or (more commonly) via its application programming interface. More Info

Deadline for submissions: 16 November 2007. Broad areas of interest are eSociety and Digital Divide, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, New Media and E-Society, Digital Services in eESociety, eGovernment /eGovernance, eHealth, Information Systems, and Information Management. These broad areas are divided into more detailed areas ... More details here

The core thematic areas are eHealth, Technology Enhanced Learning and ICT Skills, Digital Libraries and Content, Open Source Software, ICT for eInclusion and eAccessibility, eInfrastructures, ICT for Environmental Sustainability, Networked Enterprise and eGovernment. Interested presenters are encouraged to prepare an 8 page paper (4,000 - 5,000) words More Info

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) seeks public comment on a white paper examining preservation issues relevant to large-scale digitization projects such as those being done by Google, Microsoft, and the Open Content Alliance.
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The service provides support to repositories anywhere around Australia (or in fact globally) for managing format obsolescence of digital materials. Users can register with the service by providing a URL to a repository's format scan summary. The AONS service will display the summary and allow a repository manager to compare the formats of items in their repository with information from format registries such as PRONOM and Library of Congress. Download here. More info

The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) is now accepting 2008 membership applications from institutions engaged in or very interested in web archiving activities. The IIPC is an organization dedicated to collecting and preserving Internet content and fostering the development and use of common tools, techniques and standards that enable the creation of international archives. The deadline for 2008 membership applications is October 1, 2007. More Info