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Networked Resources and Metadata Committee
[formerly Digital Resources Committee]

Preservation/Storage/Authentication Subcommittee


Mission Statement:

This group will concern itself with the preservation of electronic information available via remote access: how it should be stored, who should be responsible for maintaining it, and how to protect against tampering and insure the authenticity of the data.

The group will work together with other committees in ALA, especially those working on preservation issues (such as PARS). The Commission on Preservation and Access, the Society of American Archivists, other groups specializing in the archiving of digital files, preservation departments in large research libraries and archives.


Membership:
    Evelyn Frangakis, Temporary Chair
    NAL Preservation Officer
    National Agricultural Library
    10401 Baltimore Avenue, Room 300
    Beltsville, MD 20705-2351
    Voice: (301) 504-6503
    Fax: (301) 504-7212
    E-mail: efrangak@nal.usda.gov

    Norma Hendrickson
    Microforms Team & Computer Files Team
    Special Materials Cataloging Division
    Library of Congress
    Washington, DC 20540-4371
    Preferred mailing address:
    9106 Kingsbury Drive
    Silver Spring, MD 20910-4257
    Voice: (202) 707-2813
    Home phone: (301) 565-9421
    Fax: (202) 707-7161
    E-mail: nhen@erols.com or nhen@erols.com

    Harriet Lightman
    Bibliographer, Collection Management
    Northwestern University Library
    1935 Sheridan Road
    Evanston, IL 60208-2300
    Voice: (847) 491-2920
    Fax: (847) 491-8306
    E-mail: h-lightman@nwu.edu

    Katha D. Massey
    Electronic Image Librarian/CHIPS Dept.
    Main Library
    University of Georgia Libraries
    Athens, GA 30602
    Preferred mailing address:
    270 Victoria Street
    Commerce, GA 30529
    Office: (706) 542-0587
    Home: (706) 335-5779
    Fax: (706) 542-4144
    E-mail: kdmassey@arches.uga.edu

    Irene Schubert
    Preservation Reformatting Division
    Library of Congress
    Washington, DC 20540-4550
    Phone: (202) 707-5918
    FAX: (202) 707-6449
    E-mail: isch@loc.gov


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Digitizing for Preservation / Digital Preservation Sites

Scope Note: Sites were selected because they all included preservation of digital files and/or digitizing work as a component of a preservation program. The list is intended to provide a start for the investigator seeking information on preservation in a digital world. Most sites had pages which were updated within the last year (almost all were updated within the last month) and included references to other sources of information relevant to the preservation of digital files.

Contributors: Evelyn Frangakis (current temporary chair), Norma Hendrickson (past chair), Bob DeCandido, Harriet Lightman, Irene Schubert

All pages URLs were active on June 29, 2000.


Arts and Humanities Data Service:

About JSTOR:
http://www.jstor.org/about

ARTFL (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, University of Chicago):
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html

California Digital Library:
http://www.cdlib.org/

The Cedars Project (CURL Exemplars for Digital ArchiveS), sponsored by the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL, based in the UK):
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/

Columbia University, Technical Recommendations for Digital Imaging Projects (Prepared by the Image Quality Working Group of ArchivesCom, a joint Libraries/AcIS Committee):
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/dl/imagespec.html

Conservation OnLine (CoOL):
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

Cornell University’s Project Prism:
http://prism.cornell.edu/main.htm

Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI):
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR):
http://www.clir.org/

Digital Archives Directions (DADS) Workshop, June 22-26, 1998:
http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/dads/ws.html

The Digital Culture: Maximising the Nation’s Investment (A synthesis of JISC/NPO studies on the preservation of digital materials):
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/other/ jisc-npo-dig/intro.html

D-Lib Forum and D-Lib Magazine:
http://www.dlib.org/

Besser, Howard and Jennifer Trant, “Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database,” The J. Paul Getty Trust:
http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/introimages/index.html

History Data Service: Collections Development Policy:
http://hds.essex.ac.uk/collection_policy.stm

ICSTI (International Council for Scientific and Technical Information):

“The Internet: Bringing Order from Chaos.” Scientific American. March 1997:
http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397intro.html
Articles include: “Preserving the Internet.”

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Electronic Collections and Services.:
http://www.ifla.org/II/index.htm

InterPARES (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems):
http://www.interpares.org/

Library of Congress. American Memory: Background Papers and Technical Information:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html

Library of Congress. Digital Library Resources and Projects:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/ndlf/digital.html

Making of America Project:
Cornell: http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/moa-main_page.html

NARA Electronic records Work Group:
http://www.nara.gov/records/grs20/

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER):
http://www.nber.org

National Science Foundation Workshop on Data Archival and Information Preservation:
http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/NSFWorkshop/

National Library of Australia:
http://www.nla.gov.au/home.html

Research Library Group:
http://www.rlg.org/toc.html

Society for American Archivists:
http://www.archivists.org/

Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information.
NOTE: Use only in conjunction with Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography.
http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/
Search on “Preservation of electronic resources,” “Archiving.”

The Typed Object Model (John Mark Ockerbloom):
http://tom.library.upenn.edu/

USDA Digital Publications Preservation Steering Committee:
http://preserve.nal.usda.gov:8300/npp/npp.htm



Minutes of Meetings:
  • ALA Midwinter, Friday, January 29, 1999, Philadelphia, PA

    Present: Norma Hendrickson (chair), Harriet Lightman, Jeanne Drewes, Robert DeCandido, Katha Massey, Irene Schubert.

    The committee discussed a list of URLs submitted by Irene Schubert, and a report from Harriet Lightman on three other organizations.

    Irene Schubert agreed to edit her list and send it to Norma. Harriet Lightman said she would investigate several other organizations and send the information to Norma. Robert DeCandido said he would write a list of ALA groups interested in the topic and send it to Norma.

    It was agreed that work would be done and reports sent to Norma by February 14. Norma would put the information together and forward to Ann Sandberg-Fox, chair of NRMC, for posting on the NRMC web-site. She plans to do this before March 12.

    I have since found a report from Evelyn Frangakis, which was lost in the email in box. As you can see, I am a bit late with the minutes I said I would write immediately. Hope to hear from you all soon.

    Minutes by Norma Hendrickson



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