[SPG_Active_Members] Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access named

[Randall Neff]

>From ACM TechNews  Feb 4, 2008
" Academic Group Convenes to Tackle Archiving of Digital Data
Chronicle of Higher Education (01/29/08) Foster, Andrea L.

The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation is
focusing on solving the expensive and time-consuming problem of
preserving digital data. The new group, backed by a two-year, $525,000
grant from the National Science Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, will work to develop requirements for an
economically-sustainable model for digital preservation. The task
force, which is headed by economist Brian Lavoie, a research scientist
at the OCLC Online Computer Library Center, and San Diego
Supercomputer Center director Francine Berman, is expected to issue
two reports, one at the end of this year and one in 2009. Berman says
she is particularly concerned over the lack of attention being paid to
preserving data from federally-funded research. The task force is
collaborating with the Library of Congress, Britain's Joint
Information Systems Committee, the Council on Library and Information
Resources, and the National Archives and Records Administration."

Complete article at:
http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/200692.htm

NSF Solicitation:  Full proposal target Date;  March 21, 2008
and a link to FAQs.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503141


Randall.