Here are some items that appeared most often in web and blog search feeds for this week.
European Union's Digital Heritage Plans
The Commission adopted on 30/09/2005 the "i2010: Digital Libraries" communication outlining the vision of this initiative and addressing in particular the issues of digitisation, on line accessibility and digital preservation of our cultural heritage.
Representing Digital Assets for Long-Term Preservation using MPEG-21 DID.
This paper will explore the potential of the MPEG-21 DID in a Digital Preservation context, by looking at the core building blocks of the OAIS Information Model and the way in which they map to the MPEG-21 DID abstract model and the MPEG-21 DIDL XML syntax.
The National Archives tackles digital compliance
The National Archives have reached another milestone in digital preservation testing and compliance. In conjunction with the UK Data Archive, The National Archives have released a report comparing their preservation practices to the leading internationally recognised standard for digital archives. This provides a model for other organisations to test the compliance of their own systems.
Using the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model the two organisations were able to compare their preservation practices within a common framework: an opportunity that was particularly timely because, in January 2005, the UKDA was appointed as a legal place of deposit for National Archive documents.
Google Print
You can't go anywhere without seeing some news article praising or blasting Google over their Print project. Here's a list of some of the articles.
* Authors Guild Sues Google: Authors Guild web site
* Google Sued: on Lessig blog
* Google Print and the Authors Guild: on Google blog
* U-M statement on Google library project
* Copyright scholars and publishers on crazy auctorial theories about books and tech: on Boing Boing
* Google Print beta site
Posted by Paul H at September 30, 2005 04:17 PM
