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PDF should be used to preserve information for the future
Good news the already popular PDF file format adopted by consumers and business alike is one of the most logical formats to preserve today's electronic information for tomorrow.
According to the latest report released today by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), Portable Document Formats (PDF) is one of the best file formats to preserve electronic documents and ensure their survival for the future. This announcement will allow information officers to follow a standardised approach for preserving electronic documents.
Information management and long-term preservation are major issues facing consumers and businesses in the 21st Century. This report is one of a series where The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) aims to think about and address the challenges facing us.
This report reviews PDF and the newly introduced PDF/Archive (PDF/A) format as a potential solution to the problem of long-term digital preservation. It suggests adopting PDF/A for archiving electronic documents' as the standard will help preservation and retrieval in the future. It concludes that it can only be done when combined with a comprehensive records management programme and formally established records procedures.
Betsy Fanning, author of the report and director of standards at AIIM, comments, "A standardised approach to preserving electronic documents would be a welcome development for organisations. Without this we could be walking blindly into a digital black hole."
The National Archives works closely with the DPC with issues surrounding digital preservation and will continue to do so. Adrian Brown, head of digital preservation at The National Archives said: "This report highlights the challenges we all face in a digital age. Using PDF/A as a standard will help information officers ensure that key business data survives. But it should never be viewed as the Holy Grail. It is merely a tool in the armoury of a well thought out records management policy."
The report is a call to action, organisations need to act now and look hard at their information policies and procedures to anticipate the demand for their content (documents and records) in the future. Everybody has different criteria, types and uses for documentation so you need to find one that works for your organisation.
If you would like to read the full report please go to the Digital Preservation Coalition website. This can be accessed here
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/reports/index.html#twrpdf
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For further information about:
- The National Archives please contact, Tim Matthews, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or 020 8392 5277.
- Digital Preservation Coalition please contact Carol Jackson, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Notes for editors:
The National Archives, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk, is a government department; and also an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The National Archives brings together the Public Record Office, Historical Manuscripts Commission, the Office of Public Sector Information and Her Majesty's Stationery Office. See also www.opsi.gov.uk
The National Archives is at the heart of information policy - setting standards and supporting innovation in information and records management across the UK, and providing a practical framework of best practice for opening up and encouraging the re-use of public sector information. This work helps inform today's decisions and ensure that they become tomorrow's permanent record.
The National Archives is also the UK government's official archive, containing 900 years of history from Domesday Book to the present, with records ranging from parchment and paper scrolls through to recently created digital files and archived websites. Increasingly, these records are being put online, making them universally accessible.
The vision of The National Archives is to:
- Lead and transform information management
- Guarantee the survival of today's information for tomorrow
- Bring history to life for everyone
About The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a cross-sector member organisation established in 2001 to foster joint action to address the urgent challenges of securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally.
For further information, see www.dpconline.org
JPEG 2000 a great step forward for the archival community
The Digital Preservation Coalition has examined JPEG 2000 in a report published today. The report concludes that JPEG 2000 represents a great stride forward for the archival community. The format now allows for greater compression rates and a recompression rate that is visually lossless.
The findings come as the Digital Preservation Coalition launch its latest 'Technology Watch Report' written by Dr. Robert Buckley, a Research Fellow with Xerox, 'JPEG 2000 - a practical digital preservation standard?'. The report looks in-depth at the new format and the challenges it has to cope with. JPEG 2000 is widely used to collect and distribute a variety of images from geospatial, medical imaging, digital cinema, and image repositories to networked images. Interest in JPEG 2000 is now growing in the archival and library sectors, as institutions look for more efficient formats to store the results of major digitisation programmes.
The report is aimed at organisations involved in the management and storage of digital information. The in-depth report will help archives, libraries and other institutions make informed decisions about JPEG 2000 format and their future storage needs.
JPEG 2000 can reduce storage requirements by an order of magnitude compared to an uncompressed TIFF file. Dr. Buckley says, "This new format has come at a time of heightened awareness about the access to digital documents. Any format that can assist archives and libraries to do this is welcome."
The format will also enable users to open as much of the file as they need at that time. This means a viewer, for example, could open a gigapixel image almost instantly. This is achieved by retrieving a decompressed low-resolution display sized image from the JPEG 2000 codestream. Coupled with this, the users' ability to zoom, pan and rotate an image have been enhanced.
Adrian Brown, head of digital preservation, The National Archives said: "This is a very timely addition to the DPC's Technology Watch Report series as many organisations are themselves reviewing the JPEG2000 format. This concise, comprehensive and clear guide will be of interest to practitioners across the digital preservation community."
The report concludes that JPEG 2000 offers much more flexibility and features than JPEG, but at the cost of greater complexity. It is however a great stride forward, and of major significance for the information management community.
For further information please contact, Tim Matthews, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or 020 8392 5277.
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Notes for editors:
The National Archives, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk, is a government department; and also an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The National Archives brings together the Public Record Office, Historical Manuscripts Commission, the Office of Public Sector Information and Her Majesty's Stationery Office. See also www.opsi.gov.uk
The National Archives is at the heart of information policy - setting standards and supporting innovation in information and records management across the UK, and providing a practical framework of best practice for opening up and encouraging the re-use of public sector information. This work helps inform today's decisions and ensure that they become tomorrow's permanent record.
The National Archives is also the UK government's official archive, containing 900 years of history from Domesday Book to the present, with records ranging from parchment and paper scrolls through to recently created digital files and archived websites. Increasingly, these records are being put online, making them universally accessible.
The vision of The National Archives is to:
- Lead and transform information management
- Guarantee the survival of today's information for tomorrow
- Bring history to life for everyone
About The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a cross sectoral member organisation established in 2001 to foster joint action to address the urgent challenges of securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally
For further information, see www.dpconline.org or contact Carol Jackson,
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
International Conference, Permanent Access to the Records of Science organised by the EU Alliance.
Science Assets of the Digital Age at Risk
Leading figures from the international science community will meet today to try and save the digital records of the world's scientific knowledge from being lost. Policy-makers from the European Commission and national governments will convene with world-renowned research organisations and digital preservation experts at a strategic conference in Brussels. They will discuss creation of an Alliance and European infrastructure for preserving and providing permanent access to digital scientific information currently stored in formats which are fast becoming obsolete and growing exponentially in volume.
DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 16
April - August 2007
A joint service of the Digital Preservation Coalition and the PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information) gateway.
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Compiled by Najla Semple for the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Gerard Clifton (National Library of Australia)
19 September 2007
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DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 15
December 2006 - March 2007
A joint service of the Digital Preservation Coalition and the PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information) gateway
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Compiled by Najla Semple for the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Gerard Clifton (National Library of Australia)
18 April 2007
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DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 14
July - November 2006
A joint service of the Digital Preservation Coalition and the PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information) gateway
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Compiled by Deb Woodyard-Robinson for the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Marian Hanley and Gerard Clifton (National Library of Australia)
14 December 2006
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DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 13
March - June 2006
A joint service of the Digital Preservation Coalition and the PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information) gateway
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Compiled by Deb Woodyard-Robinson for the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Marian Hanley (National Library of Australia)
13 July 2006
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DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 12
October 2005 - February 2006
A joint service of the Digital Preservation Coalition and the PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information) gateway
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Compiled by Deb Woodyard-Robinson for the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Marian Hanley (National Library of Australia)
1 March 2006
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Also available as a print-friendly PDF (147KB).
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Archived DPC and Digital Preservation Media Coverage
2006
| Date in 2006 | Article |
| January 10th | Scripps Howard News Service Pick a storage medium, format that will stand the test of time Michael Woods |
| Date in 2006 | Article |
| November 8th | Hindustan Times Content as a Digital Asset Puhneet Vohra Update 13 May 2008 Link removed as no longer available. |
| October 15th |
RLG DigiNews Digging Up Bits of the Past: Hands-on With Obsolescence |
| October 3rd | CurryBetDotNet Blog: Blogs and technology in the National Library of Scotland's 'Discover NLS' magazine |
| May 22nd | GCN.com NARA sets ERA release date Joab Jackson |
| May 29th | Law Times The paperless office: resistance is futile Carole Curtis |
| June 7th | Image and Data Manager National Archives Sidesteps Obsolescence |
| May 9th | FCW.com ISO approves open document format Aliya Sternstein |
| May 9th | ComputerWeekly.com Storage: Is your company data well preserved? Danny Bradbury |
| April 25th | CNET News.com States struggling to deal with digital documents Martin LaMonica |
| April 19th |
Library of Congress Library Holds Strategy Session On 'Preserving Creative America' |
| April 4th | SeattlePI.com Anybody remember floppy disks? Bill Virgin |
| April 4th | Law.com Corporate Alzheimer's: Coping With Forgotten File Formats John K. Waters Update 26 September 2008 Link updated to new location. |
| March 31st | Computerworld National Archives readies move to OpenDocument Howard Dahdah |
| March 31st | ZDNet Australia Open standards key to digital preservation Matthew Overington |
| March 8th | Laboratorytalk Major gaps in management of digital assets |
| February 27th | Fort Worth Star-Telegram Planned digital archive would help preserve modern annals Bryon Okada Update 10 October 2008 Link disabled as page no longer available. |
| February 17th | eGov Monitor Report reveals major gaps in preservation of valuable digital assets |
| January 30th |
AXS-One IT Directors Looking To Raise Game On Digital Archiving ChannelMinds IT Directors Looking To Raise Game On Digital Archiving |
| January 17th | eGov Monitor The National Archives launches PRONOM Unique Identifier Scheme |
| January 12th | Techworld Data retention? Don't you mean backup? Manek Dubash |
| January 11th | Enterprise Storage Forum CAN Data Ever Be Deleted? Drew Robb |
| no date | Infoworld IBM expert warns of short life span for burned CDs John Blau |
| Date in 2006 | Article |
| May 31st | ManagingInformation.com Library Launches Web Site Devoted To Capturing Web Sites For Preservation |
| April 25th | ManagingInformation.com British Library And Library of Congress Support Common Archiving Standard |
| April | CILIP Update News Digital Preservation: Doomsday Looms |
| March 14th | Managing Information Oxford/Portico Archiving Deal |
| March 31st | Image and Data Manager Magazine National Archives Embrace OpenDocument Greg McNevin |
| March 6th | Government Computer News NARA goes easy on 'transitory' e-records Rob Thormeyer |
| March | Information World Review Editor's View: Shock to the System Bobby Pickering |
| February | Ariadne Issue 46 Excuse Me...Some Digital Preservation Fallacies? Chris Rusbridge |
| January 17th | Computer Business Review Online IBM: caution urged on media lifespans |
| January 5th | The Serials Librarian Volume:49 Issue:3 'The Digital Preservation Coalition: Building a National Infrastructure for Preserving Digital Resources in the UK' Maggie Jones |
| January | D-Lib Magazine Vol.12.1, In Brief Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Launches Series That Features DPC Projects Maggie Jones |
| January | Information Scotland NLS in shortlisted digital consortium |
| January | D-Lib Magazine Vol.12.1 UKWAC Building the UK's First Public Web Archive Steve Bailey and Dave Thompson |
2005
| Date in 2005 | Article |
| December 29th | The Wall Street Journal Online Oh, Has Uncle Sam Got Mail Anne Marie Squeo |
| November 24th | Guardian Unlimited Ghosts of the digital future Victor Keegan |
| November 15th | Education Guardian Digital curators wage war on terabytes Julie Nightingale |
| November 3rd | Guardian Unlimited: Technology Off the shelf and on to the web Quinn Norton The Open Library will soon allow people to print out genuine-looking pages from a vast online archive |
| October 29th | Times Online Tech and Net We're on verge of the paperless world, says Gates Joe Bolger Update 17 December 2007 Link updated to new location |
| October 18th | Times Online: Business, Open formats make history - and maintain it, Gervase Markham Update 17 December 2007 Link updated to new location |
| October 1st | Times Online: Technology, Where the news will be read on electronic paper, Leo Lewis and Robert Thomson Update 17 December 2007 Link updated to new location |
| August 13th |
The Knowledge, The Times, Treasure Trove |
| June 26th | The Observer, The platter that matters John Naughton |
| February 5th | Connected, The Telegraph, Sound archive calls for lost relics, David Derbyshire |
| Date in 2005 | Article |
| September 16th |
You and Yours, BBC Radio 4, Digital Archive, Charlotte Smith A short item on the longevity of digital materials featuring Richard Masters (British Library) and Jack Schofield (The Guardian)." |
| Date in 2005 | Article |
| December 13th | ZDNet Australia Victoria picks 'open' formats for digital repository Munir Kotadia |
| November 29th | ZDNet.co.uk Saving the world one file format at a time Daniel Geer |
| November 21st | ZDNet News Microsoft to standardize Office formats Martin LaMonica |
| November 16th | MLA News A digital future for the past Update 16 Dec 2008 No longer available online |
| November 4th | BBC News: Technology Microsoft scans British Library About 100,000 books in the British Library are going to be scanned and put online by software giant Microsoft. (see also the BL press release) |
| June | St Andrews ITS Newsletter June 2005 Is your data safe? Update 18 May 2007 Link updated to new location |
| Date in 2005 | Article |
| December 15th | RLG DigiNews Building a Digital Archive: A Dutch Experience Peter Horsman and Klaartje Pompe |
| December 15th | RLG DigiNews PREMIS Wins Prestigious 2005 UK Digital Preservation Award |
| November 19th | Managing Information The 2005 Conservation Awards Digital Preservation Award |
| November | D-Lib Magazine Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems: A Bottom-Up Approach David Rosenthal et al |
| October | Research Information British Library and JISC agree to work more closely together |
| October 21st | The Register, Open source taking over Europe, Gavin Clarke |
| September 30th | Managing Information, The National Archives Tackles Digital Compliance |
| September 29th | Managing Information, National Libraries Of Japan And Holland Sign Joint Operating Agreement |
| September 21st | Infoconomy, Open source becomes more strategic |
| July 20th | Infoconomy, Migratory patterns Update 11 July 2008 No longer available online. |
| July 18th | Infoconomy, Buried Treasure, Jason Wright Update 11 July 2008 No longer available online. |
| June 30th | Managing Information, British Library Predicts 'Switch To Digital By 2020' |
| June 21st | Managing Information, MLA Report On Future Of Digital Museum And Library Collections |
| July | Technology Review.com, The Fading Memory of the State, David Talbot |
| June | D-Lib Magazine, Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections, Neil Beagrie |
| Spring | Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 'The Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards for Libraries' Edward M. Corrado |
| Spring |
SCONUL Focus (34) Selective web archiving in the UK : a perspective of the National Library of Scotland within UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) (PDF 166kb), Paul Cunnea Update 27 OCtober 2006 |
| April 8th | The Register, The intelligent data storage imperative, Robin Bloor |
| March 10th | The Register, Digital memories: cheap to take, cheaper to lose, Andrew Orlowski |
| February 24th | The Register, Strength through pessimism! Keeping your stuff safe, Andrew Orlowski |
| February 21st | The Register, Digital memories: we can forget them for you wholesale!, Andrew Orlowski |
2004
| Date in 2004 | Article |
| December 20th | The Guardian, The world in 0s and 1s. |
| December 19th | The Sunday Times, Unsung Heroine, Robbie Hudson. |
| August 19th | The Guardian, How to save your life, Jack Schofield. Update 03 October 2007 Link updated to new location. |
| July 12th | The Telegraph, Delete our cultural heritage?, Bruce Sterling Update 26 September 2008 Link updated to new location. |
| May 2nd | The Sunday Times, Saviours of the lost archives, Robbie Hudson. |
| April 19th | The Guardian, The history dustbin?, Meg Carter (Requires free registration). |
| January 28th | The Guardian, Libraries embrace digital age, SA Mathieson (Requires free registration). |
| Date in 2004 | Article |
| October | BBC Radio 4, Losing the Past Part 1 Wednesday 6 October 2004 Part 2 Wednesday 13 October 2004 Richard Hollingham prepared a two-part programme described as "a timely investigation into the loss of cultural, public and historical records, both analogue and digital, as a result of deterioration or advances in technology." Several DPC members were interviewed for the programmes, including Kevin Ashley, Richard Boulderstone, and David Ryan. Appropriately, the original interviews will be preserved and form part of the BBC's Creative Archive, to be launched in 2005. |
| Date in 2004 | Article |
| July | Trendwatching.com, Life Caching |
| June 24th | The National Archives, "Digital fridge" wins innovation award |
| Date in 2004 | Article |
| Winter |
Maggie Jones, 'Are you talking to me?'. SCONUL Issue 33, Winter 2004. Also available online at: Update 27 OCtober 2006 |
| December | Maggie Jones Preserving digital resources in the UK Library and Information Update, December 2004, Vol 3 (12), 39-41. Also available online at: http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/ archive/archive2004/december/jones.htm |
| July/August | Electronic Public Information Digital Preservation Award for National Archives. |
| July 22nd | The Register Digital storage and archiving = digital decay?, Bob McDowall. |
| July 9th | E-Government Bulletin 165 |
| June 24th | Managing Information News Giant Fridge For E- documentsWins Innovation Award |
| June | Information Scotland 2(3), Digital 'heritage' to be preserved. |
| March | IM@T Online (requires subscription), Long-term preservation of digital assets is a step closer Update 18 December 2008 Link updated to new location. By kind permission of Cimtech Ltd (IM@T Online March 2004) this article is reproduced here. The future access to information produced or held in digital formats is a step closer to being more fully understood and provided for, reports the first Annual Report (July 2002-July 2003) of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC). Since it was set up and launched at the House of Commons in 2002, the DPC has generated widespread interest in the potential crisis facing the long-term survival of digital materials and it has been providing advice and guidance on solutions and best practice. Significant interest and a rapid growth in coalition members are the key milestones that have been achieved in its first full year. The widespread use of its website and online handbook have proved the real value that the Coalition’s work is adding. Chair of the DPC, Lynne Brindley, remarks in her introduction to the report, that the first year has been a very significant year. She praises JISC's substantial support through the release of Neil Beagrie to work as inaugural Secretary to the DPC. His time and energy has helped the DPC establish itself more rapidly and has created the reserves sufficient to allow a full-time member of staff to be recruited to develop the DPC’s work further. Key highlights of the year
The DPC is keen to build on its strengths and develop its advocacy work, spreading awareness of the serious problem facing preservation of digital materials to the general public and other key stakeholders. Maggie Jones, the new DPC full-time co-ordinator is now charged with taking the aims of the Coalition further and is, amongst other things, overseeing the first national Needs Assessment Survey. A series of tasks have been identified, this includes preparing a table of digital preservation projects being undertaken by DPC members and the preparation of a report on options for training. The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) was formed in 2001 and was formally established as a Company in July 2002, to foster joint action to address the urgent challenges of securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally to secure our global digital memory and knowledge base. Information about the aims and objectives of the Coalition and a full copy of the report (as a PDF under 'Annual Reports') on the website below. Digital Preservation Coalition. www.dpconline.org |
2003
| Date in 2003 | Article |
| June 30th | The Independent, The End of History, Charles Arthur (subscription required for full article). |
| June 5th | The Guardian, I'll just check my diary..., Sara Gaines Update 03 October 2007 Link updated to new location. |
| February 7th | Times Higher Education Supplement, The People's Librarian, Interview with Brewster Kahle by Chris Johnston Update 24 July 2009 Link updated to new location. |
| January 9th | The Guardian, Digital Dark Age Looms, Jack Schofield Update 03 October 2007 Link updated to new location. |
| Date in 2003 | Article |
| May 22nd | National e-Science Centre, "Memories for life" Managing information over a human lifetime (PDF 57KB), Andrew Fitzgibbon & Ehud Reiter |
| Date in 2003 | Article |
| January 20th | Kansas City Star, Retrieving old files a long, complex job, Nick Jesdanun. |
| January 16th | Houston Chronicle, Digital memory threatened as file formats evolve, Nick Jesdanun. |
| Date in 2003 | Article |
| May | Research Information Spring 2003, Data Preservation: Great Data, But Will It Last?, Vanessa Spedding |
| March 24th | The Register, Public Records Office to preserve digital documents, Tim Richardson |
| Jan-March | Information Management and Technology, Using the past to inform the future with CAMiLEON |
| Jan 5th | Information World Review, Out of Time, Piers Ford |
2002
| Date in 2002 | Article |
| December 2nd | The Independent, Domesday Project that Technology forgot is unlocked, David Lister Update 01 October 2008 Link updated to new location. |
| December 2nd | The Scotsman, Experts rescue BBC domesday project knowledge, John Innes |
| November 23rd | New Scientist, Way Back When..., Paul Marks interview with Brewster Kahle |
| November 16th | Saturday Times Magazine, Someone's Got To Do It..., Paul Wheatley |
| November 3rd | Daily Mirror, New Domesday, same old story, Amy Vickers |
| November 1st | TES, Universities resurrect Domesday Project |
| August 15th |
Computer Weekly, Galleries and museums face a tough challenge to get online, James Rogers. Update 25 August 2008 |
| July 5 th | Times Higher Educational Supplement, Digital Archive dates too Fast, Mark Rowe (requires subscription to access article). Update 24 July 2009 Link updated to new location. |
| June 6th | The Guardian, Web Watch Save It, Jack Schofield Update 03 October 2007 Link updated to new location. |
| March 17th | Sunday Times, The digital black hole? Danny O'Brien. |
| March 8th | The Independent, Some of our volumes are missing, Mathew Sweet. |
| March 7th | The Guardian, Electronic trail goes cold, Mark Tran. Update 03 October 2007 Link updated to new location. |
| March 4th | Metro, Time runs out for Doomsday Discs. |
| March 4th | The Independent, Remembrance of data past, Charles Arthur (subscription required for full article). Update 01 October 2008 Link updated to new location. |
| March 3rd | The Observer, Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years, not 1,000, Robin McKie and Vanessa Thorpe. |
| February 28th | The Guardian, Urgent need to save digital heritage, says campaigners, Stuart Millar |
| February 26th | Business AM, Digital drive to stop electronic memories being wiped for ever [November 2004: This article is no longer available online - original URI: http://www.businessam.co.uk/TodaysPaper/TodaysArticles/1,2035,84330,00.html] |
| Date in 2002 | Article |
| December 3rd | BBC 1, News feature on digital preservation by Nick Higham with interview with Lynne Brindley. |
| June 25th | London Radio Service, Paul Wheatley and Neil Beagrie talk to Laurence Spicer |
| February 28th | BBC Radio 4, Helen Shenton on Front Row |
| Date in 2002 | Article |
| December 4th | History.uk.com, Experts save Domesday archive |
| December 3rd | VNUnet.com, BBC Domesday book resurrected, Nick Farrell |
| December 3rd | Ananova, Experts rescue BBC domesday project knowledge Update 14 June 2005 - this page no longer available |
| December 2nd | BBC1 News, Digital Domesday Book is Unlocked |
| August 29th | Guardian Online, Saving for the Future, Polly Curtis |
| June 12th | Webactive, The Future of Preserving the Past, Liesbeth Evers |
| March 19th | Guardian Unlimited, British Library begins website archive, Sarah Left. |
| March 4th | Online Publishing News, Are your archives future-proof?, Soozie Campbell. Update 10 February 2006 Link disabled as no longer available online. |
| March 1st | Silicon.com, 'Save our data' campaign launched, Pia Heikkila |
| February 21st | vnunet.com, Preservation helps the corporation, Liesbeth Evers. |
| Date in 2002 | Article |
| August | New Heritage, Digitisation and Preservation, Karla Young |
| June 12th | Network News, Keeping Up To Date when Preserving the Past, Liesbeth Evers |
| June | Library Journal New York, UK Launches Digital Preservation Coalition, James Rogers |
| June | Information Management, Coalition to Secure the Future of Digital Material |
| March 19th | Brighton and Hove Argus, Electronic risk of deleting history, Ray Hatley |
| March15th | Scottish Libraries, Future of digital content |
| March 15th | Society of Archivists Newsletter, Digital Preservation Coalition |
| March 11th | New Media Age, Keeping hold of the intangible, Dominic Dudley |
| March 7th | Computer Weekly, Safeguard our e-heritage says TV star Grossman, James Rogers. Update 25 August 2008 New location: http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2002/03/07/185618/safeguard-our-e-heritage-says-tv-star-grossman.htm |
| February 25th | Arts Professional, Digital Preservation Coalition |
| February 20th | Network News, Urgent preservation order on digital data |
| February 20th | Business AM, Digital drive to stop electronic memories being wiped forever, Frazer Thomson [November 2004: This article is no longer available online - original URI: http://www.businessam.co.uk/TodaysPaper/ TodaysArticles/1,2035,84330,00.html] |
| February 8th | AI, Simon Tait's diary, Simon Tait. |
| January 25th | PR Week, Public Record Office |
DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 11
June - September 2005
A joint service of the Digital Preservation Coalition and the PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information) gateway
To open PDFs you will need Adobe Reader
Compiled by Deb Woodyard-Robinson for the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Marian Hanley (National Library of Australia)
27 October 2005
This is an archived issue of What's New.
Also available as a print-friendly PDF (152KB).
Known problem links in online versions and PDFs are disabled (or updated when the issue is current) but it is not always possible to annotate the amendments in PDFs with a date or other information which may appear in the online version.
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