Digital Preservation Coalition

PRESS RELEASE

Digital Preservation Award 2010: shortlist announced Vienna, 21^st 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 21^st October. The winners of the Conservation Awards 2010 will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at the Royal Institution on 1st December 2010.

Read the full press release here