News
Full archives of Digital Preservation Newsletters Available
All back issues of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter are available online at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/archive.html.
NDIIPP Partner Update
The North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project (NCGDAP) have two news items to report: 1. Members of the NCGDAP are working with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), a nonprofit international standards organization, to help develop digital preservation standards for the geospatial industry. 2. NCGDAP is actively involved in efforts to improve the North Carolina OneMap services by investigating how historic and at-risk data might be integrated into Web-based mapping services. Read more about these developments and future NDIIPP partner updates at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news
Digital Preservation Pioneer: Eileen Fenton
Eileen Fenton is the executive director of Portico, a continuing archiving service for scholarly resources published in electronic form, beginning with electronic scholarly journals.
Library of Congress Partners with British, Canadian and Australian National Libraries on RDA Implementation
Four national libraries have joined forces to implement a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital environment in which libraries now operate. The Library of Congress, the British Library, Library and Archives Canada, and the National Library of Australia have agreed on a coordinated implementation of "RDA: Resource Description and Access," the successor to the "Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules."
Study Group Issues Report Recommending Changes in Copyright Law to Reflect Digital Technologies
After nearly three years of intensive work, the independent Section 108 Study Group has issued its report and recommendations on exceptions to copyright law to address how libraries, archives and museums deal with copyrighted materials in fulfilling their missions in the digital environment. The report is available at www.section108.gov. Section 108 is the section of the Copyright Act that provides limited exceptions for libraries and archives so that they may make copies to replace copyrighted works in their collections when necessary, preserve them for the long term and make them available to users.
All back issues of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter are available online at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/archive.html.
NDIIPP Partner Update
The North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project (NCGDAP) have two news items to report: 1. Members of the NCGDAP are working with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), a nonprofit international standards organization, to help develop digital preservation standards for the geospatial industry. 2. NCGDAP is actively involved in efforts to improve the North Carolina OneMap services by investigating how historic and at-risk data might be integrated into Web-based mapping services. Read more about these developments and future NDIIPP partner updates at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news
Digital Preservation Pioneer: Eileen Fenton
Eileen Fenton is the executive director of Portico, a continuing archiving service for scholarly resources published in electronic form, beginning with electronic scholarly journals.
Library of Congress Partners with British, Canadian and Australian National Libraries on RDA Implementation
Four national libraries have joined forces to implement a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital environment in which libraries now operate. The Library of Congress, the British Library, Library and Archives Canada, and the National Library of Australia have agreed on a coordinated implementation of "RDA: Resource Description and Access," the successor to the "Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules."
Study Group Issues Report Recommending Changes in Copyright Law to Reflect Digital Technologies
After nearly three years of intensive work, the independent Section 108 Study Group has issued its report and recommendations on exceptions to copyright law to address how libraries, archives and museums deal with copyrighted materials in fulfilling their missions in the digital environment. The report is available at www.section108.gov. Section 108 is the section of the Copyright Act that provides limited exceptions for libraries and archives so that they may make copies to replace copyrighted works in their collections when necessary, preserve them for the long term and make them available to users.
