[PADG:1341] OITP Task Force

["Cathleen Martyniak" <cathy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

 

During an April 2006 summit, the ALA Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) Task Force on Digital Content's Principles for Digital Content-Draft Proposal was developed.  This document, which includes 9 recommendations including one concerning digital preservation issues, will be presented to the ALA Council for discussion and approval in 2007.  Summit participants included Howard Besser, Nancy Davenport, Dan Greenstein, Cliff Lynch, Brian Schottlaender, and others from AALL, ALISE, SLA, NISO, AASL, AMIA, DLF,  LITA and ACRL.

 

For further information, please see the TF web site at http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/contactwo/oitp/digtask.htm .

 

Liz Bishoff, consultant to the OITP task force, will be making a 20 minute presentation on the TF and its recommendations at the Digital Preservation Discussion Group (DPDG), which will be meeting on Sunday, January 21st, at 8am, at the ALA Midwinter meeting in Seattle.

 

The full and final agenda of the DPDG, with location information, will be send out to this list serv later next week.

 

Hope to see you in Seattle,

 

Cathy Martyniak and Margaret Byrnes

DPDG Co-chairs

 

 

Cathleen L. Martyniak

Head, Preservation Department

Smathers Libraries

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL 32611

352-392-6962 (voice)

352-392-6597 (fax)

cathy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx