[SCC_Active_Members] NIST Long Term Sustainment of Digital Information workshop

[H.M. Gladney]

FYI, the attachments are part of my ongoing effort to keep track of
world-wide digital preservation activities.
 
World-wide, there currently occurs approximately one digital preservation
open workshop or symposium per month.  As far as I can tell, most of the
participants do little more than discuss the nature of the challenges.  I
suppose that attending such a meeting is a pleasant social occasion,
particularly when attending is funded by some government.
 
Four books on digital preservation or a closely related topic have been
published in the last six months.  These will be identified in the Digital
Document Quarterly v.6 #1, which should appear before the end of March.
 
Cheerio, Henry

-----Original Message-----

From: Josh Lubell [ <mailto:lubell at nist.gov> mailto:lubell at nist.gov] 

Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:08 AM

To: H.M. Gladney   Cc: regli at drexel.edu; Rachuri Sudarsan; SubNIST

Subject: Re: online registration open for Long Term Sustainment of Digital
Information workshop

Also, within NIST we're proposing to develop a measurement science for
archival quality, i.e. methods for quantifying information loss, migration
errors, etc. This would use the sustainability criteria developed by LC and
others as a starting point.

Josh

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From: William Regli [mailto:wregli at gmail.com]   Sent: Wednesday, March 07,
2007 8:54 AM
To: H.M. Gladney   Cc: Josh Lubell
Subject: Re: online registration open for Long Term Sustainment of Digital
Information workshop


Dear Henry:

Aside from the workshop report (which we may digest into a journal paper),
we have not identified any specific publications worth producing at this
early stage.  While there has not been a publication, there has been
progress on a number of fronts.  For example, we just completed a meeting in
the UK with 40+ members of the UK MoD and academic agencies working on
digital preservation for engineering.  A engineering format registry portal
is also soon forthcoming.  Our LoC project has built some prototype software
tools as well --- soon to be released.  

Hence, cannot say you missed anything; but this is not to say there isn't
considerable activity going on.  

Best regards,

Bill



On 3/7/07, H.M. Gladney <hgladney at pacbell.net> wrote: 

As I recall, a major objective of the LTKR Workshop was to assist you and
your NIST colleagues in formulating a NIST action plan for preservation
activities, and that collaboration with Bill Regli was intended as part of 
that.

I am surprised that I have not heard any specifics of such a plan.  Did I
miss its publication?

Cheerio, Henry

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Lubell [mailto:  <mailto:lubell at nist.gov> lubell at nist.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:13 AM
To: Smetana, Andrew; Karen Current; Guttman, Barbara; Lawrence Brandt;
Martha Anderson; Paul Krumpe; Ron Wood; Barker, Sean (UK); Mahesh; Abdelaziz
Bouras; Ali Shokoufandeh; Burt F Gischner; Frank Brown; Caroline Arms;
Crispin Hales; Don Sawyer; Cheney, Doug; Rich Eckenrode; SubNIST;
gilles.neubert at univ-lyon2.fr ; Marty Herman; Henry Gladney;
hyoil.han at ischool.drexel.edu; Jan Vandenbrande; Jeff Abrahamson;
john.messina at nist.gov; John Zimmerman; Ben Kassel; Lalit Patil; Louis Reich;

Josh Lubell; Mark Conrad; Jim Mays; Rachuri Sudarsan; Sudha Ram; Bill Regli;
Bob Chadduck; Satyandra K. Gupta; Joe Kopena; Tony Brown; Wo Chang;
yacine.ouzrout at univ-lyon2.fr  <mailto:yacine.ouzrout at univ-lyon2.fr> 
Subject: online registration open for Long Term Sustainment of Digital
Information workshop

I updated the Call for Participation at
http://digitalpreservation.wikispaces.com/LTKR+2007+Call+for+participation

There is now a link to an online registration form, along with registration
instructions specific to "Long Term Sustainment" participants. 

I also added a draft agenda.

Please be aware that you must make your hotel reservation by April 9 in
order to take advantage of the Interoperability Week group rate.

Hope to see you at the workshop next month! 

Josh

--
Josh Lubell, NIST
Manufacturing Systems Integration Division 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8263
Gaithersburg MD 20899-8263 USA
Phone: 1-301-975-3563, Email: lubell at nist.gov  <mailto:lubell at nist.gov> 






-- 
William C. Regli, Ph.D.
Drexel University                           regli at drexel.edu
Department of Computer Science   http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~regli
College of Engineering                   Tel: + 1 (215) 895 - 6827
Philadelphia, PA 19104                  Fax: + 1 (215) 895 - 0545 
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