Reports
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Major Reports on Digital Preservation, Curation and Collections
Use and Devleopment of Standards
In 2004-2005, The National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
conducted for the IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS) a survey
on the use and development of standards in digital archiving
within the international library world. The survey resulted in the report:
Availability of Suitable Guidance Documents
In the same period the National Library of Australia also carried out a survey
for ICABS on digital preservation. This survey focused on the availability
of suitable guidance documents for preserving digital materials:
"Report to ICABS on guidance for digital preservation: Report
on a survey of Sources".
Your Data at Risk
The National Council on Archives has published a new Advocacy Document to
help archivists convince other people why preserving electronic records is
an urgent issue. This Advocacy Document, called 'Your Data At
Risk',
is aimed at Chief Executives of local authorities, Finance Officers and other
non-specialists in positions of authority who may make policy or resource decisions
that affect archival services.
This document will be circulated to all Local Government
Chief Executives. It is available in hard copy from Ruth Savage, Policy and
Development Officer
of the NCA, or in electronic format from the NCA website:
Report of the National Science Board - Long lived Digital Data Collections:
Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century - May 2005
National Consultation on Access to Scientific Research Data (NCASRD) - January
2005
JISC Digital Repositories Programme - 2005
Collections for the future : the Museum Associations' Inquiry - 2005
UK Needs Assessment
State of the Nation Survey to
reveal threat to the UK's Digital Heritage
MLA Survey
The MLA funded survey of two English regions (North East and West Midlands)
has now been completed. The press release is available from
This survey will form an important part of the UK Needs assessment of Digital
Preservation in the UK.
DPC Members Survey
Report by Duncan
Simpson, consultant, March 2004.
Annexes of the Survey are available only to Members of the DPC - for information
on Membership, including benefits and how to join, please go to Membership
Mind the Gap
April 2008: Invitation to Tender 'Mind The Gap' - Follow-Up Study
The value and success of the 2006 'Mind the Gap' report, both to its membership
and the wider community, are recognised. The DPC are now commissioning a study
to review and analyse the report's final recommendations and to produce a transparent
action plan for the DPC, its members and the wider digital preservation community.
The full ITT, available to members, can be found at ITT
'Mind the Gap' Follow-up Study (PDF 57KB)
Both DPC members and a number of consultants have been invited to tender for
this proposal. It is hoped that the work will be completed by the end
of September 2008.
February 2006: Launch of 'Mind the Gap' Report
Technology Watch Reports
Technology Watch Report 08-02
Preserving the Data Explosion: Using PDF by Betsy A. Fanning
Technology Watch Report 08-01
JPEG 2000 - a Practical Digital Preservation Standard? by Robert Buckley, Ph.D.
Technology Watch
Report 05-01
Preservation Metadata by Brian Lavoie and Richard Gartner
A DPC members only meeting on Preservation
Metadata was structured around this report and held on Thursday 8th September
2005.
Technology Watch Report 04-03
The Large-scale Archival Storage of Digital
Objects
by Jim Linden, Sean Martin, Richard Masters, and Roderic Parker
DPC Meeting on this subject
held in York, UK 22nd April 2005
Technology Watch Report 04-02
Institutional Repositories in the context of Digital Preservation
by: Paul Wheatley, University of Leeds, March 2004
Technology Watch Report 04-01
The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide
by: Brian F. Lavoie, Office of Research, OCLC Online Computer Library Center,
Inc., January 2004
Other Reports
- IT Vendors Survey
Public Draft - Extracts from A Survey of Information Technology Vendors
by: Philip Lord, The Digital Archiving Consultancy, 28th October
2002
Annual Reports
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