Please plan to join us for the Digital Preservation Interest Group meeting at ALA Midwinter next week in Denver! We have an exciting program planned and look forward to the presentations and related discussion.
Digital Preservation Interest Group
ALA Midwinter Meeting
Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009 8-10 AM
Westin Tabor Center, Tabor Auditorium
Presentations
· Lisa Schmidt, MATRIX, Michigan State University
MATRIX, a digital research humanities center at Michigan State University, received a grant from NHPRC to assess and improve on the preservation policies and practices of the H-Net academic e-mail lists. MATRIX hosts
H-Net which is the oldest and largest collection of born-digital arts, humanities, and social sciences material on the Internet. H-Net includes more than 1 million e-mail messages and is growing. The assessment includes applying the TRAC checklist to the
H-Net archive. Improvements to the preservation practices will incorporate TRAC policies and procedures. Additionally, the DICE group (late of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, now at University of North Carolina) will test their iRODS data grid software
system on the H-Net archive. This will involve them writing "rules" compliant with MSU’s TRAC policies to automate preservation processes.
· Abagail Potter, Digital Archivist, Office of Strategic Initiatives, Library of Congress
NDIIPP Update – Current Projects and Future Directions
· Martin Halbert, Emory University
MetaArchive, NDIIPP-funded project
Reports
iPres 2008: The Fifth International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects, British Library, Sept. 29-30, 2008. Liz Bishoff
4th International Digital Curation Conference: Radical Sharing: Transforming Science, Edinburgh, Scotland, Dec. 1-3, 2008. Emily Gore
See you then!
Best,
Emily Gore & Becky Ryder, co-chairs, ALA ALCTS-PARS Digital Preservation Interest Group