Discover the wealth of Australian Newspapers online at the Australian Newspapers Beta service

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For those Australian libraries which have newspaper collections, this announcement is likely to be of interest.

On 25 July 2008, in collaboration with the State and Territory libraries, the National Library of Australia launched the Australian Newspapers Beta service which makes available [...]

July 23 At Libraries, Taking the (Really) Long View

http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/23/preservation
One of the benefits of digitally encoded content is that it can’t deteriorate. With files that consist of 1’s and 0’s, there are no pages to turn yellow or brittle, tape to demagnetize or bindings to snap. In theory, that would be a boon to libraries that devote boundless resources to preserving [...]

International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/resources/pubs/wipo_digital_preservation_final_report2008.pdf
International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation
July 2008
A joint report of The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
The Joint Information Systems Committee
The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project
The SURF foundation
This study focuses on the copyright and related laws of Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and [...]

Portico Moves Beyond E-journals: New Digital Preservation Activities Announced at Third Annual Participants’ Meeting

Portico, a not-for-profit digital preservation service, introduced three expansions of its preservation work at its third annual Participants’ Meeting, held during the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. In direct response to preservation concerns expressed by libraries and publishers, Portico is moving beyond e-journal preservation.
• Portico now [...]

What’s New in Digital Preservation

DPC / PADI “What’s New in Digital Preservation” – Issue 17 available
Issue no. 17 (September 2007 – February 2008) of the DPC / PADI “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
and the  National Library of Australia:
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/qdigest/dpc-padi-digest-issue17-2008.html
“What’s New” is a summary of selected recent [...]

Alternative File Formats for Storing Master Images of Digitisation Projects

http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_links_en_publicaties/publicaties/Alternative%20File%20Formats%20for%20Storing%20Masters%202%201.pdf
March 7, 2008
Authors:Robèrt Gillesse, Judith Rog, Astrid Verheusen
National Library of the Netherlands, Research & Development Department
“The study took place in the context of reviewing the Koninlijke Bibliotheek’s (KB) storage strategy for digitisation projects. The magnitude of digitisation projects is increasing to such a degree – the estimate is 40 million images and [...]

ALA Annual Conference 2008: Archiving in Practice

The presentation slides from this program are available at:
http://presentations.ala.org/index.php?title=ALAac2008_j2kIG
Peter
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Peter Murray                            http://www.pandc.org/peter/work/
Assistant Director, New Service Development  tel:+1-614-728-3600;ext=338
OhioLINK: the Ohio Library and Information Network        Columbus, Ohio
The Disruptive Library Technology Jester                http://dltj.org/
Attrib-Noncomm-Share   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter for July has just been released

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200807.pdf
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200807.pdf

LIFE2 Conference – 23 June 2008

http://www.life.ac.uk/2/conference.shtml
presentations include:
Keynote: Some economics of digital preservation Paul Courant
LIFE Model Paul Wheatley
LIFE Model Economic Validation Bo-Christer Björk

Practical implementation of the LIFE Model
Ulla Bøgvad Kejser
JISC-LC Blue Ribbon Task Force on the economic sustainability of digital preservation
Paul Ayris
British Library Newspapers Case Study Richard Davies
SHERPA-LEAP Case Study Jacqueline Cooke
SHERPA-DP Case Study Stephen Grace
Research Data Costs Neil Beagrie

Elsevier Announces Agreement with Portico

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_00960

Anaheim, CA 26 June 2008 – Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, today announced an agreement with Portico, a not-for-profit digital preservation service, to aid ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s online STM platform, in addressing the challenges of eBook preservation. This agreement will ensure that ScienceDirect’s eBook content is protected for the future.
The [...]