[Sigdl-l] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Report on Sustainable Digital Preservation

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded, Dick Hill]

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From: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition [mailto:CNI-ANNOUNCE at cni.org]
On Behalf Of Clifford Lynch
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:40 PM
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Report on Sustainable Digital Preservation

During the past year, I have been serving as a member of the Blue Ribbon
Task Force on Digital Preservation and Access, which is being funded by US
National Science Foundation and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and supported
by a number of other key organizations. This Task Force has recently
released its first-year report, which can be found here:

http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Interim_Report.pdf

Note that much of this report is concerned with establishing definitions and
surveying and synthesizing the current state of knowledge (or, sometimes,
lack of knowledge) as well as practical experience gained from a number of
digital preservation programs that offered testimony to the Task Force;
there  will be  a second year report containing conclusions and
reccomendations that builds on this one.

For more information on the committee and its work, you can visit:

http://brtf.sdsc.edu



Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI