<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=562014516-30072006><FONT face=Arial>Should you be interested in the topic, <STRONG>Ingeborg </STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><STRONG>Verheul, <EM>Networking for Digital Preservation: Current Practice in 15 National Libraries,</EM> K.G. Saur, 2006</STRONG>, provides a competent and up-to-date survey of international initiatives towards long-term preservation of digital information.  It is available from <A href="http://www.ifla.org/V/pr/saur119.htm">http://www.ifla.org/V/pr/saur119.htm</A>.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=562014516-30072006><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=562014516-30072006><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">A wiki provides a concise definition of the topic and its partitioning into areas of attention.  See <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservation">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservation</A>.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=562014516-30072006><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=562014516-30072006><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes, Henry</FONT></DIV></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>