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Dr. Henry Gladney just mailed this out...you
might find some of the papers in this and previous issues of interest.
Enjoy!
Richard
See DDQ 4(3) at
<http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_4_3.htm>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_4_3.htm
The CLIR/RLG Task Force that stimulated most
subsequent digital preservation thinking
completed and published its deliberations ten
years ago.(?) It?s time to assess progress on
each of its recommendations. This DDQ number
identifies some progress made, but identifies
critical recommendations for which there might
have been activity without any significant
progress. See the DDQ list of I/T terms that includes ?churn?.
For the eventual benefit of the Computer History
Museum (CHM), I have been compiling an
institutional repository requirements
statement. This was partly stimulated by some
members? comments favoring eventual CHM adoption
of DSpace as infrastructure for its planned
cyber-museum?enthusiasm over the roughly 100
other extant content management software
offerings. Since I could identify little reason
for such favoritism, I studied DSpace and
Greenstone (the latter less deeply). What I
learned is that the DSpace team is promoting its
work more effectively than any other open source
repository software team. However, I also
learned that what it says about digital
preservation support represents an intention
more than a description of any implementation available for inspection.
From considering this and other instutional
repository work identified in recent reports
(?), I have the impression that much software
development work featuring ?digital
preservation? in its description is addressing
primarily the same topics that we called
?content management? five years ago. This DDQ
number suggests why it might be so.
The DDQ 4(3) table of contents
includes: The Meaning of ?Digital Preservation?
Digital Preservation in Institutional Repositories
Requirements for an Institutional Repository
Ten Years after the Seminal Report (?)
Information Technology's Dirty Words
Recommendations of 3 news reports, 5 books,
and 3 web sites as worthwhile reading, and
The usual section on practical aspects of personal computing.
? Garrett, John. Waters, Donald. Andre,
P.Q.C. Besser, H. Elkington, N. Gladney, H.M.
Hedstrom, M. Hirtle, P.B. Hunter, K. Kelly, D.
Kresh, Lesk, M. Levering, M.B. Lougee, W. Lynch,
C. Mandel, C. Mooney, S.B. Okerson, A. Neal,
J.G. Rosenblatt, S. Weibel, S.
<http://www.rlg.org/ArchTF/>Preserving Digital
Information: Report of the Task Force on
Archiving of Digital Information, commissioned
by The Commission on Preservation and Access and
The Research Libraries Group, May 1996. (The
last task force meeting occurred in the autumn
of 1995. Its report was published nine months later.)
? Borghoff, U. M., Rödig, P., Scheffczyk, J.,
& Schmitz, L. (2003). Langzeitarchivierung:
Methoden zur Erhaltung digitaler Dokumente.
Heidelberg: dpunkt.verlag. xv, 283 pp. ISBN
3-89864-245-3. More details from dpunkt.verlag
Web site, retrieved February 24, 2004, from:
<http://www.dpunkt.de/buch/3-89864-245-3.html>http://www.dpunkt.de/buch/3-89864-245-3.html
Lynch, Clifford A. and Joan K.
Lippincott,
<http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/lynch/09lynch.html>Institutional
Repository Deployment in the United States as
of Early 2005, D-Lib Magazine 11(9), September 2005.
Westrienen, Gerard van, and Clifford A.
Lynch,
<http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/westrienen/09westrienen.html>Academic
Institutional Repositories: Deployment Status
in 13 Nations as of Mid 2005, D-Lib Magazine 11(9), September 2005.
Witten, Ian H. David Bainbridge, Chi-Yu
Huang and Katherine J. Don, and Robert Tansley,
<http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/witten/09witten.html>StoneD:
A Bridge between Greenstone and DSpace, D-Lib Magazine 11(9), September 2005.
Best wishes, Henry
H.M. Gladney,
Ph.D.
<http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/
HMG Consulting
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