<!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 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>FYI, the attachments are part of my ongoing effort to keep track of world-wide digital preservation activities.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>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.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align=left>Cheerio, Henry </DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> -----Original Message----- From: Josh Lubell [<A href="mailto:lubell@nist.gov">mailto:lubell@nist.gov</A>] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:08 AM To: H.M. Gladney   Cc: regli@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 <HR tabIndex=-1> From: William Regli [mailto:wregli@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 </DIV> <DIV></DIV>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 <DIV>On 3/7/07, H.M. Gladney <<A href="mailto:hgladney@pacbell.net">hgladney@pacbell.net</A>> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">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:<A href="mailto:lubell@nist.gov"> lubell@nist.gov</A>] 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; <A href="mailto:gilles.neubert@univ-lyon2.fr">gilles.neubert@univ-lyon2.fr</A> ; Marty Herman; Henry Gladney; <A href="mailto:hyoil.han@ischool.drexel.edu">hyoil.han@ischool.drexel.edu</A>; Jan Vandenbrande; Jeff Abrahamson; <A href="mailto:john.messina@nist.gov">john.messina@nist.gov</A>; 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; <A href="mailto:yacine.ouzrout@univ-lyon2.fr">yacine.ouzrout@univ-lyon2.fr </A> Subject: online registration open for Long Term Sustainment of Digital Information workshop I updated the Call for Participation at <A href="http://digitalpreservation.wikispaces.com/LTKR+2007+Call+for+participation">http://digitalpreservation.wikispaces.com/LTKR+2007+Call+for+participation</A> 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: <A href="mailto:lubell@nist.gov">lubell@nist.gov </A> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> -- William C. Regli, Ph.D. Drexel University                           <A href="mailto:regli@drexel.edu">regli@drexel.edu</A> Department of Computer Science   <A href="http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~regli">http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~regli</A> College of Engineering                   Tel: + 1 (215) 895 - 6827 Philadelphia, PA 19104                  Fax: + 1 (215) 895 - 0545 </BODY></HTML>