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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 ********************************************* 1) DLF Spring Forum Online registration now open at http://www.diglib.org/forums/Spring2004/ ********************************************* 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 *********************************** 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 ***************************************************** 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. ***************************************** 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.