A Miscellany of News:

1) DLF Spring Forum online registration now open
2) Cornell Digital Preservation Tutorial
3) December DigiCULT magazine
4) Digital Opportunity Investment Trust
5) ECDL 2004

Best,

David

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1) DLF Spring Forum

Online registration now open at http://www.diglib.org/forums/Spring2004/

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2) Cornell Digital Preservation Tutorial

Just before the holiday break, our colleagues at Cornell mounted a splendid
and good-looking online tutorial for digital preservation management:

http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/tutorial/dpm/index.html

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3) DIGICULT: Issue 6 - A Newsletter on Digital Culture December 2003, ISSN
1609-3941 (cover page attached)

A significant set of updates, mostly on European, Australian, and New
Zealand digital activity.

Subscribe to the Newsletter DigiCULT.Info
http://www.digicult.info/pages/subscribe.php

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4) DIGITAL OPPORTUNITY INVESTMENT TRUST

Various progress from the DOIT folks, whose activities we endorsed as an
organization last year.  See their latest newsletter for more information at
www.digitalpromise.org.

* In November, Senators Chris Dodd (D. CT), Olympia Snowe (R. ME), and
Richard Durbin (D. IL) introduced the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust
Act (bill S. 1854 -- attached).

* Early in 2003, the Federation of American Scientists received DOIT's first
federal appropriation. Introduced by Rep. Ralph Regula (R.OH), the $750,000
appropriation to FAS supported the production of an ambitious "Report to
Congress" detailing DOIT's structure and governance, its rationale, and a
learning research and development roadmap.  Presented to Congress this fall,
the Report provided the underpinning for S. 1854.

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5) European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2004
September 12-17 2004
University of Bath, UK
http://www.ecdl2004.org/

ECDL has become the major European forum focusing on digital libraries and
associated technical, organizational and social issues.