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ICA: International Council on Archives

Added 16 March 2004
http://www.ica.org
The International Council on Archives (ICA) is dedicated to the advancement of archives worldwide. Archives, by providing evidence of human activities and transactions, underlie the rights of individuals and states, and are fundamental to democracy and good governance. Archives safeguard the memory of mankind by preserving records of its past. In pursuing the advancement of archives, ICA works for the protection and enhancement of the memory of the world. ICA is the professional organisation for the world archival community, dedicated to promoting the preservation, development, and use of the world's archival heritage. It brings together national archive administrations, professional associations of archivists, regional and local archives and archives of other organisations as well as individual archivists. ICA has more than 1,500 members in over 170 countries and territories, making it truly international. It is a non-governmental organisation, which means that it maintains an independence from the political process and that its members include public and private archive institutions and individuals. ICA works closely with inter-governmental organisations such as UNESCO and the Council of Europe. It also has strong links with other non-governmental organisations.

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Categories:

  • Archives
  • Digital curation
  • Long-term preservation
  • National archives
  • Non governmental professional organizations

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ICOM - The International Council of Museums

Added 16 March 2004
http://www.icom.org
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is an international organisation of museums and museum professionals which is committed to the conservation, continuation and communication to society of the world's natural and cultural heritage, present and future, tangible and intangible. Created in 1946, ICOM is a non-governmental organisation maintaining formal relations with UNESCO and having a consultative status with the United Nations' Economic and Social Council. ICOM helps the cultural centres and other entities that facilitate the preservation, continuation and management of tangible or intangible heritage resources (living heritage and digital creative activity).

Contact: Manus Brinkman,

Categories:

  • Digital curation
  • Long-term preservation
  • Museums
  • Non governmental professional organizations

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ICSTI - International Council for Scientific and Technical Information

Added 16 March 2004
http://www.icsti.org
ICSTI, The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, offers a unique forum for interaction between organizations that create, disseminate and use scientific and technical information. ICSTI's mission cuts across scientific and technical disciplines, as well as international borders, to give member organizations the benefit of a truly global community. ICSTI aims to: Provide leadership in promoting recognition of the value of scientific and technical information to the world's economic, research, scholarly and social progress; Enhance access to and delivery of information for all constituencies in business, industry, academia, government and the public through the exchange of information and the sharing of experience among international peers; and be a forum for interaction among all participants in information flow.

Contact: Barry Mahon,

Categories:

  • Research and development
  • Technology

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Image Preservation Through PDF/A

Added 4 February 2008
http://docmorph.nlm....docmorph/IST2005.pdf
The preservation of image collections is a goal of many libraries and organizations. Among the considerations for long-term preservation is the choice of file format. An emerging file format for preservation is PDF/A, which is a
proposed international standard for long-term electronic document preservation. Since this file format can be used for image preservation, there are a number of considerations to be followed for converting image files to PDF/A, and also for ultimately migrating from PDF/A to successor file formats.

Categories:

  • Digitisation
  • Long-term preservation
  • Standards

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IMAPpreserve

Added 26 May 2004
http://www.imappreserve.org
Independent Media Arts Preservation, Inc. (IMAP) is a nonprofit service, education, and advocacy organization committed to the preservation of non-commercial electronic media. IMAP has grown from a New York—based consortium of arts organizations and individuals to a national resource for preservation training, information, and advocacy. IMAP’s core constituents include institutions, organizations, and individuals whose diverse media collections are underserved by existing preservation efforts. IMAP's scope includes video art, audio art, new media, and technology-based installation art; independent documentary and community media; and documentation of arts and culture. While IMAP's primary focus is on electronic media, it also works closely with groups focused on the preservation of film, performance, interdisciplinary, and multimedia work.

Contact: Electronic Arts Intermix,

Categories:

  • Audio-visual media
  • Long-term preservation

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Implementing Persistent Identifiers : Overview of concepts, guidelines and recommendations

Added 21 December 2006
http://webdoc.sub.gw...-90-6984-508-3-8.pdf
In the mid 1990s, a number of schemes were developed that, rather than relying
on the precise address of a document, introduced the idea of name spaces for
recording the names and locations of documents. The identifiers for documents
are registered centrally. When an end-user wishes to access a certain document,
the identifier in his request is ‘resolved’, i.e. the correct document is retrieved,
without the end-user needing to know the exact location of the document. This
report describes a number of such schemes in detail.
Key concepts introduced include Handles, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs),
Archival Resource Keys (ARKs), Persistent Uniform Resource Locators
(PURLs), Uniform Resource Names (URNs), National Bibliography Numbers
(NBNs), and the OpenURL. These schemes are described with examples and
extensive references.

Categories:

  • Persistent identifiers
  • Standards

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INA - Institut National de l'Audiovisuel

Added 16 March 2004
http://www.ina.fr
The INA is responsible for France's cultural audiovisual heritage. Under legal deposit legislation, INA is responsible for deposits from the country's six national television channels (public and commercial) and five public radio channels. Under the French communications law, INA is also responsible for maintaining the archive for public radio and television. INA is one of the three major partners in the PRESTO project. It is making heavy use of digitisation for preservation and also taking more material in born-digital form. INA wants to extend its mission to the French Web and is developing a harvester with the École Nationale Supérieure.

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  • Digital curation
  • Long-term preservation

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INFER - Italian National Forum on Electronic Resources

Added 16 March 2004
http://www.infer.it
INFER is a co-ordinating group set up to co-operate in promoting access to electronic information resources in Italian libraries. INFER seeks to further the efficient use of electronic information in libraries and to facilitate access by the public. To this end it encourages libraries to set up consortia and other types of agreement on acquisition and management of electronic resources and access to them. INFER acts as a reference and linkage point and develops initiatives to promote activities and programmes in the area of library electronic resource-sharing. In this connection it gathers and disseminates information on co-operation efforts under way in Italy and abroad, and suggests ideas and guidelines. INFER seeks to enhance awareness both at institutional political level and among librarians and end users. In this context INFER sees its most direct interlocutors as the central and local administrations libraries are dependent on (ministries, universities, local authorities, etc.), research institutions, the Italian Library Association (AIB) and other organisations in the sector.

Contact: Paola Gargiulo,

Categories:

  • Access
  • Co-operation of memory institutions
  • Consortia
  • Digital curation

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Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite

Added 8 January 2008
http://www.digital-s...g/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite, is designed to give the reader a very quick introduction to key aspects of institutional repositories and to foster further exploration of this topic though liberal use of relevant references to online documents and links to pertinent websites.

Categories:

  • Digital curation
  • Institutional repositories

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International Digital Preservation System Survey - Getty Institute

Added 14 June 2007
http://www.ndk.cz/do...y-final-lessmaps.pdf
initial results of the Digital Preservation System Survey that you completed in March/April of 2007

Categories:

  • Digital libraries
  • Long-term preservation
  • Reports
  • Surveys

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International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)

Added 16 March 2004
http://www.ifla.org
IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. IFLA's Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation (PAC) was officially created during the IFLA annual conference in Nairobi in 1984 to focus efforts on issues of preservation and initiate worldwide cooperation for the preservation of library materials. The PAC programme was effectively launched in Vienna during the 1986 Conference on the Preservation of Library Materials sponsored by the Conference of the Directors of National Libraries, with IFLA and UNESCO. IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section http://www.ifla.org/VII/s19/index.htm is concerned with the preservation of the world’s documentary heritage. It provides an international forum for all types of libraries to exchange, develop and disseminate knowledge and experience dealing with theories, policies and practices for the preservation of all recorded knowledge, regardless of the storage medium. The Section maintains a close working relationship with the IFLA PAC Core Programme.

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Categories:

  • Digital curation
  • Digital libraries
  • Long-term preservation
  • Non governmental professional organizations
  • Standards

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International Internet Preservation Consorcium

Added 3 August 2006
http://netpreserve.org/about/index.php
The national libraries of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, The British Library (UK), The Library of Congress (USA) and the Internet Archive (USA) acknowledged the importance of international collaboration for preserving Internet content for future generations and therefore decided to form a consortium called the International Internet Preservation Consortium.

The goals of the consortium are:
To enable the collection of a rich body of Internet content from around the world to be preserved in a way that it can be archived, secured and accessed over time.
To foster the development and use of common tools, techniques and standards that enable the creation of international archives.
To encourage and support national libraries everywhere to address Internet archiving and preservation.

Contact: Catherine Lupovici,

Categories:

  • Best practice for digital preservation
  • Co-operation of memory institutions
  • Consortia
  • Digital curation
  • National libraries
  • Web-archiving

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International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) 2: Experiential, Interactive and Dynamic Records

Added 22 September 2008
http://www.interpares.org/ip2/book.cfm
InterPARES 2 was carried out between January 2002 and December 2006. Its goal is to develop a theoretical understanding of the records generated by experiential, interactive and dynamic systems, of their process of creation, and of their present and potential use in the artistic, scientific and governmental sectors, and, on the basis of that understanding, to formulate methodologies for:
-ensuring that the records created using these systems can be trusted as to their content (that is, are reliable and accurate) and as records (that is, are authentic) while used by their creator;
-selecting the records that have to be kept for legal, administrative, social or cultural reasons after they are no longer needed by their creator;
-preserving the selected records in authentic form over the long term; and
-analyzing and evaluating advanced technologies for the implementation of these methodologies in a way that respects cultural diversity and pluralism.

Categories:

  • Long-term preservation

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International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (September 2008)

Added 9 March 2009
http://www.digitalpr...final_report2008.pdf
This study focuses on the copyright and related laws of Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States and the impact of those laws on digital preservation of copyrighted works. It also addresses proposals for legislative reform and efforts to develop non-legislative solutions to the challenges that copyright law presents for digital preservation.

The study is 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 Law Project and The SURFfoundation.

This report was originally issued in July 2008. This updated version was released in September 2008 with minor corrections.

Categories:

  • Copyright and licensing

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InterPARES 2 Project Case Studies

Added 25 September 2006
http://www.interpare...ip2_case_studies.cfm
Case studies of digital dynamic, interactive or experiential records produced in the various areas of endeavour that it is concerned with in order to gather an understanding of the activities creating the records, their purpose, their phases and the component actions, their byproducts and their structure, and their context, but also their technological environment and their use. The findings of the case studies are expected to provide much of the data necessary to answer the research questions of all domains and cross-domains.

Categories:

  • Audio-visual media
  • Surveys

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Investigative Study of Standards for Digital Repositories and Related Services

Added 21 January 2008
http://dare.uva.nl/document/93727
This study by CNRS, the French partner in the DRIVER project, reviews the current standards, protocols and applications in the domain of digital repositories. Special attention is being paid to the interoperability of repositories to enhance the exchange of data in repositories. The study is meant for institutional repository managers, service providers, repository software developers and all players taking an active part in the creation of the digital repository infrastructure for e-research. It aims to raise the discussion about these topics and to support initiatives for the integration and in some cases the development of new standards, in addition to the current interoperability mechanisms that have been implemented in digital repositories. The study looks at the current situation, but also focuses on the near future in terms of steps that have to be taken now in order to comply with future demands.

Categories:

  • Best practice for digital preservation
  • Institutional repositories
  • Long-term preservation
  • Reports
  • Standards

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IP Issues of Digital Preservation in India

Added 10 November 2008
http://reclaiming-in...on-in-india-ipr.html
The IPRs issues in the digital era are also closely related to the requirements of Digital Preservation in India. With the rapid advancement of technology day by day, old applications and methods are becoming obsolete. We need to upgrade them from time to time. We also need to change form of various IPRs protected works from one form to another. This sometimes results in copyright, trademark, patents, etc violations. In short, IPRs issues in the digital era and cyber space are difficult to manage and we need both good policies and laws to manage the same effectively.

Contact: Mr. Praveen Dalal,

Categories:

  • Academic research
  • Copyright and licensing
  • General

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iPRES2007 presentations available online

Added 29 October 2007
http://ipres.las.ac.cn/program.jsp
The theme of 2007 iPRES is Digital Preservation: Sustainable Programs and Best Practices.

Categories:

  • Best practice for digital preservation
  • Conference proceedings
  • Long-term preservation

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