DPE are glad to announce briefing papers translations into Slovak. Andrea Fojtů, digital preservation specialist from the Charles University in Prague Computer Center, translated the briefing papers Preservation of Digital Audiovisual Content (by Richard Wright) and Digital Preservation and Open Access Archives (by Valdo Pasqui). Slovak language thus became eighth language of the DPE Briefing papers, besides English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian and Czech.
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DPE are happy to announce publication of two briefing papers:
Data Preservation, Reuse and (Open) Access in High-Energy Physics by Andre Holzner, Peter Igo-Kemenes, Salvatore Mele
and Digital Preservation for Long-Term Environmental Monitoring by
Albani Sergio, Fusco Luigi, Guidetti Veronica, ESA.
See the newly published papers here.

1. New Briefing paper on Persistent Identifiers systems in the Public Administration sector by Dov Winer, Israel National Library
2. Translation of the paper on The Uses of Metadata in Public Administration into Spanish by Juan-José Boté
3. Translation of the paper about Open Source in Digital Preservation into Czech languages by David Cigánek

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One of the main themes of the PrestoSpace project was the study of techniques to improve the access to large audiovisual collections. In this brief paper the salient characteristics of the designed data model are outlined. See the new DPE Briefing paper here

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services (Planets), Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval (CASPAR) and Network of expertise in Digital long-term preservation (nestor) are delighted to announce that they will be delivering the latest in a series of collaborative training initiatives to introduce the Preservation Challenges. More Info

1. Carolyn Hank, Laura Sheble and Songphan Choemprayong from School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have written very interesting Briefing paper titled Considerations for the
Preservation of Blogs.
2. Linda Ciacchini translated two Briefing papers into Italian: Gli usi dei metadati nella pubblica amministrazione and Contenuti multimediali per il multicanale.
3. Gea Campanale translated briefing paper L’evoluzione professionale
nella conservazione digitale: una necessità di
lunga durata into Italian.
4. Sofia Pina translated two Briefing papers into Portuguese: O desafio da avaliaçao da documentaçao cientifica and Preservaçao de Bases de Dados: o desafio internacional e a soluçao suíça.
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A Unique Material Identifier (UMID) is a special code that is used to identify audiovisual (AV) materials. Text by Nadja Wallaszkovits, Christian Liebl, Phonogrammarchiv - Austrian Academy of Sciences. Read it here.

Cristina Faria provided Portuguese translation of the paper on Automating semantic metadata extraction by Di Yunhyong Kim from HATII University in Glasgow.
Maria Teresa De Gregori translated the paper on Database Preservation into Italian. See list of all briefing paper translations.

Persistent Identifiers for Cultural Heritage, a briefing paper written by Emanuele Bellini, Chiara Cirinnà, and Maurizio Lunghi, Fondazione
Rinascimento Digitale is now available also in Portuguese translation by Sofia Pina. See all briefing papers

Based on practical research and developed jointly by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)and DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), the Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) provides a methodology for self-assessment of digital preservation repositories.
The toolkit (http://www.repositoryaudit.eu), has been evaluated and applied across a diverse range of organisations, such as national libraries, scientific data centres and archives. DPE is organising a successful series of training courses to train new DRAMBORA auditors. The third of these will be held at the Ministry for Cultural Heritage, Rome, Italy, in March 2009. More Info

DPE are glad to announce two more translations into Czech language. Thanks to Karel Škrle, from ICZ a. s. we have Czech versions of the briefing paper on The Uses of Metadata in Public Administration (Použití metadat ve veřejné správě) and the case study Digital preservation strategies in Public Administrations (Strategie uchovávání digitálních záznamů ve veřejném sektoru (PA): řešení potřeb PA)
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