Document on preserving digital objects

The Statement of Principles on the Preservation of and Long-Term
Access to Australian Digital Objects is now available at:

    http://www.nla.gov.au/3/npo/natco/princ.html

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At a workshop on Preservation of Digital Objects hosted by the
National Preservation Office (NPO) on 6 December 1995, 35 invited
representatives discussed and revised a Draft Statement of
Principles on the Preservation of and Long-Term Access to Australian
Digital Objects. These principles have undergone several stages of
revision following consultation with organisations represented at
the Preservation of Digital Objects workshop, the Preserving Access
to Digital Information (PADI) working party, Preservation Services
at the National Library of Australia and comments received following
the wide distribution of the Draft Statement of Principles.

The NPO requests that the Principles be tested in the development of
strategies to preserve digital objects and that comments be
forwarded to:

    Jan Lyall
    National Library of Australia
    Canberra ACT 2600
    npo<-a t->nla< . >gov< . >au

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