OCLC

Excerpt from DPC Annual Report 2008-2009

In the previous 12 months OCLC Research has concentrated its digital preservation research efforts in the following activities:

• Brian Lavoie continues to serve as co-chair of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. The Task Force, an international group of experts in preservation and economics, published its Interim Report in December 2008, and is scheduled to publish its final report in January 2010.
• Brian Lavoie remains an active member of the PREMIS Editorial Committee, which is responsible for managing the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata. Currently, Brian is taking an active role in a subcommittee tasked with drafting a new PREMIS conformance statement to support PREMIS implementations.
• Brian Lavoie is participating in the JISC-funded Keeping Research Data Safe 2 project, led by Neil Beagrie. The project aims to develop selection criteria and guidelines for collecting and analysing digital preservation cost data, in the context of the cost framework developed in the JISC Keeping Research Data Safe 1 project (in which we also participated).
• OCLC Research hosted two interns from the University of Michigan School of Information. The students, who are specialising in the preservation of information, have made significant contributions to both the PREMIS activity and the sustainability task force.