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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.
Contact:
Categories:
- Archives
- Digital curation
- Long-term preservation
- National archives
- Non governmental professional organizations
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
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
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
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
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.
Contact:
Categories:
- Digital curation
- Long-term preservation
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
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
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
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
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