[Sigah-l] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Several Major Reports on Digital Preservation, Curation and Collections

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded.  Dick Hill]

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Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Several Major Reports on Digital Preservation,
Curation and Collections

In the past few days several important reports have been issued; I've 
collected pointers to them in a single message here.

The U. S. National Science Board has approved the release of the 
final version (subject to copy-editing) of Chris Greer's report on 
Long-Lived data collections. Chris gave a talk on this report at the 
spring CNI meeting, and I circulated a pointer to the earlier version 
of this report that was issued for comment in March 2005; the version 
that has just been posted incorporates many of the comments that were 
recieved on the draft report.

You can find this document at

http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2005/LLDDC_report.pdf

I would urge anyone at a U.S. research institution or organization 
concerned with research to take the time to at least look at the 
executive summary of this very important report.

In addition, the Canadian National Research Council has issued its 
final report on the 18-month Canadian consultation on access to 
scientific research data. This is in important, interesting and 
timely document that serves as a fine complement and counterpoint to 
the U.S. report just discussed; it is much broader in terms of policy 
questions but also somewhat more tentative. Again, I would urge 
anyone interested in scientific or scholarly data curation to at 
least skim this important report. It can be found at:

  http://ncasrd-cnadrs.scitech.gc.ca/home_e.shtml

In the UK, the JISC has announced a new series of awards (totalling 
some four million pounds) under its repositories program. For 
information on this, see:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_digital_repositories

and follow the pointers to the descriptions of the individual 
projects, many of which are of extraordinary interest.

Also in the UK, there has been a very interesting report out of the 
museum sector reflecting on the problems of collections too extensive 
to be exhibited:

http://www.museumsassociation.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXSESSION_=eUXRKDd1Uo
h&_IXACTION_=summary&%24with+cms_con_core_identifier+is+%229839%22=.&_IXSPFX
_=full/x&_IXFPFX_=full/x&_IXMAXHITS_=1

Note that this page also contains pointers to several interesting 
ancillary documents, as well as some press material; the report 
proper is at:

http://www.museumsassociation.org/asset_arena/text/ns/policy_collections.pdf

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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