Announcement: publication of A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation
http://www.metaarchive.org/GDDP
Authored by members of the MetaArchive Cooperative, A Guide to
Distributed Digital Preservation is the first of a series of volumes
from the Educopia Institute describing successful collaborative
strategies and articulating specific new models that may help cultural
memory organizations work together for their mutual benefit.
This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital
preservation, a still-emerging field of practice for the cultural memory
arena. Replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite
preservation of materials without degradation, but establishing
effective organizational and technical processes to enable this form of
digital preservation is daunting. Institutions need practical examples
of how this task can be accomplished in manageable, low-cost ways.
This guide is written with a broad audience in mind that includes
librarians, archivists, scholars, curators, technologists, lawyers, and
administrators. Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical
and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital
preservation, including how to establish or join a network.
Readers may access A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation as a
freely downloadable pdf and/or as a print publication for purchase.
Please visit
http://www.metaarchive.org/GDDP to download or order the
book.
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The MetaArchive Cooperative provides low-cost, high-impact preservation
services to help ensure the long-term accessibility of the digital
assets of universities, libraries, museums, and other cultural memory
organizations. In addition to preserving members’ digital content in a
distributed digital preservation network, the Cooperative also offers
consulting and education services to institutions that seek training in
digital preservation planning, policy creation, and implementation,
including setting up and running Private LOCKSS Networks
(
http://www.lockss.org).
For more information, please contact Program Manager Katherine Skinner
(katherine.skinner(a)metaarchive.org).
Best Regards,
Katherine
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Katherine Skinner, PhD
Executive Director, Educopia Institute
Program Manager, MetaArchive Cooperative
404 783 2534; katherine.skinner(a)metaarchive.org
Delinda Stephens Buie
Head, Special Collections
Ekstrom Library
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
502.852.6762
502.852.8734 fax
dsbuie(a)louisville.edu