Added on 21 September 2010


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Digital Preservation Award 2010: shortlist announced Vienna, 21st September 2010

The Institute for Conservation (Icon) and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are delighted to announce the shortlist for the fourth Digital Preservation Award 2010.

Short-listed for the Digital Preservation Award (in no particular order) are:

  • The MEMENTO Project: Time Travel for the Web, from Old Dominion University and the Los Alamos National Lab in the United States
  • Web Continuity: ensuring access to online government information, from The National Archives UK
  • PLATO 3: Preservation Planning made simple from Vienna University of Technology and the PLANETS Project
  • The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
  • Preserving Virtual Worlds, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Maryland, Stanford University and Linden Lab in the United States

All the short-listed projects will give a presentation to the Digital Preservation Awards judges on 21st October. The winners of the Conservation Awards 2010 will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at the Royal Institution on 1st December 2010.

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