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The following may be of interest. ANNOUNCEMENT The NEDLIB Report "An experiment in using Emulation to Preserve Digital Publications" by Jeff Rothenberg is now available on the NEDLIB seb-site at: URL: http://www.kb.nl/nedlib/results/emulationpreservationreport.pdf REPORT SUMMARY The report presents the results of a preliminary investigation into the feasibility of using emulation as a means of preserving digital publications in accessible, authentic, and usable form within a deposit library. The study was commissioned by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, and jointly funded by the European Commission's Telematics for Libraries Programme. The report describes a prototype experimental environment for trying-out emulation-based preservation, using commercial off-the-shelf emulation tools to produce an initial proof-of-concept. Results include proposed data, metadata and procedural models to support emulation-based preservation. The analysis is presented in the context of the increasingly accepted Open Archival Information System (OAIS) as well as the NEDLIB adaptation of the OAIS, the Deposit System for Electronic Publications (DSEP). A specific, concrete proposal is presented for implementing emulation-based preservation: the various steps necessary for this preservation strategy are described and associated with the appropriate processes in the DSEP model. From the results of this preliminary investigation there are indications that emulation-based preservation has significant potential and warrants further exploration. Recommendations for future experiments are made. CONTACTS For more information concerning the NEDLIB emulation testbed activity, please contact: Jeff Rothenberg <[log in to unmask]> Titia van der Werf <[log in to unmask]> Eric Burger Rijkarchiefdienst/National Archives PO Box 90520 2509 LM Den Haag The Netherlands tel.: +31(0)70-3315492 fax : +31(0)70-3315499 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Daniel Greenstein Director, Digital Library Federation CLIR 1755 Massachusetts Ave, NW Suite 500 Washington DC 20036 phone 202 939 4762