The presentations that were given at the PREMIS Implementation Fair on Oct. 7, 2009 in San Francisco, CA are now available. Thank you to everyone who helped to make this a successful event. We plan to have additional PREMIS implementation fairs in other places.

In this issue:

*News of 2009 Best Practices Exchange and the Preserving Digital News meeting

*An article about a Digital Preservation Workshop held at the Library of Congress

*The Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation sponsored a national conference and published an interim report

*Government Computer News recognizes NDIIPP among the best of Federal information technology initiatives of 2009

*New guidelines for content categories and digitization objectives published by the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative

*An interview podcast about the DuraSpace pilot project is available from Federal News Radio

*Upcoming Event: Registration is open for the Cultural Heritage Online Conference in Florence, Italy

The first phase of Lifecycle Information for e-Literature (LIFE) made a major contribution to understanding the long-term costs of digital preservation; an essential step in helping institutions plan for the future. The LIFE work models the digital lifecycle and calculates the costs of preserving digital information for future years. Organisations can apply this process to understand costs and plan effectively for the preservation of their digital collections. The second phase of the project has refined the LIFE Model adding 3 new exemplar case studies.

The SHERPA DP2 project (2007-2009) was a two year project funded by the JISC under the Digital Preservation and Records Management Programme. The project was led by the Centre for e-Research at King’s College London (formerly the Executive of the Arts and Humanities Data Service), which is working with several institutions to develop a preservation service that will cater for the requirements of a diverse range of digital resources and web-based resources. In summary, the project has the following objectives: 1. Extend and refine the OAIS-based Shared Services model created for the initial SHERPA DP project to accommodate the requirements of different Content Providers and varied collaborative methods. 2. Produce a set of services that will assist with the capture and return of research data stored in distributed locations, building upon existing software tools. 3. Expand upon the work processes and software tools developed for SHERPA DP(1) and SOAPI to cater for the curation and preservation of increasingly diverse resource types

11 September 2009, Lynnfield, MA USA—CrossRef has collaborated with archiving organizations and publishers to ensure that several journals that have ceased publication remain linkable with the CrossRef DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) originally assigned to the articles. The titles include Auto/Biography and Graft from SAGE and Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention from Oxford University Press (OUP). All three titles are now available through both CLOCKSS and Portico.

An archive “trigger event” occurs when a published journal or other content is no longer available from the publisher. Trigger events can occur for a variety of reasons. Both SAGE and OUP have had agreements in place with archive organizations for several years, but the discontinuation of these titles marked the first time those arrangements had been implemented with real-world cases.

“Two important tenets of CrossRef’s mission are persistence and cooperation,” said Ed Pentz, Executive Director of CrossRef. “Making sure that the CrossRef DOIs that have been assigned to content that has moved from a publisher journal platform to an archive still resolve to the articles is an important part of that persistence. Persistence is not only achieved through technology but by cooperation: CrossRef, publishers, journal hosting services, and the archiving organizations have all worked together to ensure continued access to the scholarly record. These journals are particularly strong examples of the system in action as there are multiple archives available to guarantee ongoing access.”

“Graft articles were made available in Portico at the end of 2007 and Auto/Biography in mid-2008,” said Carol Richman, Director of Licensing at SAGE. “We believe that we have a responsibility to ensure scholarly content and research materials remain accessible in the future, and have therefore made long-term commitments with a number of archive partners. CrossRef’s multiple resolution service allows users following a CrossRef DOI link to choose whether to access the archived copies through Portico or CLOCKSS.”

“Our first triggered journal is Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention,” said Claire Kearney, Head of IT, Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press.
“We appreciated the opportunity to demonstrate our commitment to archiving by enabling multiple resolution links that lead to both CLOCKSS and Portico. Not only did we need to work out the technical issues of ensuring persistent linking to archived content, but the agreements we have with the archiving organizations and with CrossRef provide a “publication will” that ensures this information will continue to be available to scholars.”

I thought list members might be interested in a new set of web pages written as guidance for university researchers on research data management & sharing, published as part of a re-launched University of Edinburgh Information Services website.

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DigCCurr2009 was held on April 1-3, 2009 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina as part of the Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCurr) project. DigCCurr is a three-year (2006-2009), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded project to develop a graduate-level curricular framework, course modules, and experiential components to prepare students for digital curation in various environments. Contributions to DigCCurr2009 take the form of long and short papers, posters and panels. Potential contributions were submitted for peer review by a rich and diverse panel of international experts. Reviewers evaluated the submissions based on clarity and organization of presentation and writing; originality, creativity and potential for new contributions to the field; and engagement (topics addressed would be appropriate for and engaging to the diverse audience of DigCCurr2009 participants).