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NDIIPP:
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
Electronic media, especially the Internet, make it possible for almost anyone to become a "publisher." How will society preserve this information, and how will libraries and other repositories classify this information so that their patrons can find it with the same ease that they can locate a book on a shelf? These questions and others are being addressed by a program led by the Library of Congress and including a host of other participants from the public and private sectors in The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).
Public Announcement of Eight Digital Preservation Partnerships
Library of Congress Announces Awards of $13.9 Million to Begin Building a Network of Partners for Digital Preservation (Library of Congress, September 30, 2004)
Information:
The Digital Formats Web Site
This site provides information about digital content formats. An initial offering is being compiled during 2004 and 2005, and the analyses and resources presented here will increase and be updated regularly. The compilers, Caroline R. Arms and Carl Fleischhauer, invite feedback on the content.
LOCKSS Plugin Tutorial
This site provides a guide to using the LOCKSS Plugin Generation Tool.
Past Events:
Symposium on Open Access and Digital Preservation
Much of the most innovative output of scholars is today at risk because of commercial threats to public intellectual property rights.In addition, many institutions are now recognizing the fragility of their infrastructures for long-term preservation of digital information. This symposium explored the opportunities for preserving long-term access to scholarly information through the new model of Open Access publications as well as organizational and technological innovations in digital preservation. This site contains powerpoint presentations and published texts of many of the Symposium speakers. (Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, October 2, 2004)
Kick-Off Meeting for Digital Preservation Partnerships
The spirit of cooperation that is key to the success of the Library's efforts to lead a national program to collect and preserve digital materials was clearly evident when the question most asked of the Library during a recent meeting was, "How can we work together?" The meeting was held at the Library of Congress, and provided the first opportunity for the partners in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) to meet each other and discuss how they will achieve the objectives of their own projects as well as those of the overall national program. (Library of Congress, January 12-13)
DLF Spring Forum. Panel on NDIIPP, DLF Member Participation
This panel included a brief introductory recap of the NDIIP Program, as well as short presentations by participating DLF institutions concerning the goals of the cooperative projects they are leading.
The following presentations from this panel have been made available through the DLF website:
NDIIPP:
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
Electronic media, especially the Internet, make it possible for almost anyone to become a "publisher." How will society preserve this information, and how will libraries and other repositories classify this information so that their patrons can find it with the same ease that they can locate a book on a shelf? These questions and others are being addressed by a program led by the Library of Congress and including a host of other participants from the public and private sectors in The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).
Public Announcement of Eight Digital Preservation Partnerships
Library of Congress Announces Awards of $13.9 Million to Begin Building a Network of Partners for Digital Preservation (Library of Congress, September 30, 2004)
Information:
The Digital Formats Web Site
This site provides information about digital content formats. An initial offering is being compiled during 2004 and 2005, and the analyses and resources presented here will increase and be updated regularly. The compilers, Caroline R. Arms and Carl Fleischhauer, invite feedback on the content.
LOCKSS Plugin Tutorial
This site provides a guide to using the LOCKSS Plugin Generation Tool.
Past Events:
Symposium on Open Access and Digital Preservation
Much of the most innovative output of scholars is today at risk because of commercial threats to public intellectual property rights.In addition, many institutions are now recognizing the fragility of their infrastructures for long-term preservation of digital information. This symposium explored the opportunities for preserving long-term access to scholarly information through the new model of Open Access publications as well as organizational and technological innovations in digital preservation. This site contains powerpoint presentations and published texts of many of the Symposium speakers. (Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, October 2, 2004)
Kick-Off Meeting for Digital Preservation Partnerships
The spirit of cooperation that is key to the success of the Library's efforts to lead a national program to collect and preserve digital materials was clearly evident when the question most asked of the Library during a recent meeting was, "How can we work together?" The meeting was held at the Library of Congress, and provided the first opportunity for the partners in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) to meet each other and discuss how they will achieve the objectives of their own projects as well as those of the overall national program. (Library of Congress, January 12-13)
DLF Spring Forum. Panel on NDIIPP, DLF Member Participation
This panel included a brief introductory recap of the NDIIP Program, as well as short presentations by participating DLF institutions concerning the goals of the cooperative projects they are leading.
The following presentations from this panel have been made available through the DLF website:
Caroline Arms (Library of Congress): presentation
Martin Halbert (Emory): presentation
Suzanne Samuel (CDL): presentation
Steven Morris (NCSU): presentation
Bill Mischo (UIUC): presentation
Martin Halbert (Emory): presentation
Suzanne Samuel (CDL): presentation
Steven Morris (NCSU): presentation
Bill Mischo (UIUC): presentation
Upcoming Events:
Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium
This interdisciplinary symposium at Emory University, featuring Lawrence Lessig and Siva Vaidhyanathan, will explore the relationship between digital access to public cultural information and intellectual property constraints. In recent years, new legal limitations in the United States have affected public access to the materials held in a variety of different open digital library infrastructures, ranging from those of the Library of Congress to Kazaa. As new technological possibilities and laws governing their many uses emerge, it becomes critical to examine the relationship between digital innovation and legal regulation. This symposium seeks to promote a better understanding of the associated impacts of these changes on the local, national and international levels, both now and in the future.
Other NDIIPP Projects:
National Geospatial Digital Archive
The University Libraries of UCSB and Stanford are leading the formation of the National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA), a collecting network for the archiving of geospatial images and data. Geospatial information has played an important role in the history of the United States. From the first colonial maps to the satellite imagery of the 21st century, cartographic information has helped define and frame our view of the United States. Concerned that millions of nationally important digital information resources are in danger of being lost or corrupted, the Library of Congress has partnered with eight institutions to begin a three year $15 million effort to build a nationwide digital collection and preservation system.
North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project
A Joint Project of: NCSU Libraries and NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis In Cooperation with Library of Congress and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
The Web At Risk: A Distributed Approach To Preserving Our Nation's Political Cultural Heritage
The California Digital Library has been awarded a three-year grant from the Library of Congress to develop web archiving tools that will be used by libraries to capture, curate, and preserve collections of web-based government and political information. The collections will focus on local political activities and movements, such as the California gubernatorial recall election of 2003.
The Dot Com Archive
Researchers at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business have received an award from the Library of Congress to strengthen a two-year-old initiative to preserve records from the historic dot-com era of the late 1990s. Researchers will develop a digital repository to house business records and other materials collected through the Business Plan Archive (BPA), which was launched in 2002. The BPA is a Web portal located at www.businessplanarchive.org and contains business plans, marketing plans, technical plans, venture presentations, and other business documents from more than 2,000 failed and successful Internet start-ups.
Data Preservation Alliance
The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is a partnership project led by ICPSR in collaboration with The Roper Center at the University of Connecticut, the Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, and the Electronic and Special Media Records Services Division, of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The project is supported by an award from the Library of Congress.
Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium
This interdisciplinary symposium at Emory University, featuring Lawrence Lessig and Siva Vaidhyanathan, will explore the relationship between digital access to public cultural information and intellectual property constraints. In recent years, new legal limitations in the United States have affected public access to the materials held in a variety of different open digital library infrastructures, ranging from those of the Library of Congress to Kazaa. As new technological possibilities and laws governing their many uses emerge, it becomes critical to examine the relationship between digital innovation and legal regulation. This symposium seeks to promote a better understanding of the associated impacts of these changes on the local, national and international levels, both now and in the future.
Other NDIIPP Projects:
National Geospatial Digital Archive
The University Libraries of UCSB and Stanford are leading the formation of the National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA), a collecting network for the archiving of geospatial images and data. Geospatial information has played an important role in the history of the United States. From the first colonial maps to the satellite imagery of the 21st century, cartographic information has helped define and frame our view of the United States. Concerned that millions of nationally important digital information resources are in danger of being lost or corrupted, the Library of Congress has partnered with eight institutions to begin a three year $15 million effort to build a nationwide digital collection and preservation system.
North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project
A Joint Project of: NCSU Libraries and NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis In Cooperation with Library of Congress and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
The Web At Risk: A Distributed Approach To Preserving Our Nation's Political Cultural Heritage
The California Digital Library has been awarded a three-year grant from the Library of Congress to develop web archiving tools that will be used by libraries to capture, curate, and preserve collections of web-based government and political information. The collections will focus on local political activities and movements, such as the California gubernatorial recall election of 2003.
The Dot Com Archive
Researchers at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business have received an award from the Library of Congress to strengthen a two-year-old initiative to preserve records from the historic dot-com era of the late 1990s. Researchers will develop a digital repository to house business records and other materials collected through the Business Plan Archive (BPA), which was launched in 2002. The BPA is a Web portal located at www.businessplanarchive.org and contains business plans, marketing plans, technical plans, venture presentations, and other business documents from more than 2,000 failed and successful Internet start-ups.
Data Preservation Alliance
The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is a partnership project led by ICPSR in collaboration with The Roper Center at the University of Connecticut, the Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, and the Electronic and Special Media Records Services Division, of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The project is supported by an award from the Library of Congress.