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Many of you may know the good work done by the Digital Curation Centre in the UK, a central agency to promote digital preservation, which is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the e-Science core programme. Please see below for their latest efforts towards promoting international activity and awareness in their areas of focus. David Promoting International Digital Curation and Preservation Activity ***Apologies for cross-posting*** To help promote the range of ongoing, international activity in the fields of digital curation and preservation, the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) would like to encourage you to disseminate information about your research, tools, resources, documents, news, and events via the DCC web site. A short, on-line submission form is available at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/adding/ . Successfully promoting the curation and preservation of digital information to a range of stakeholder communities depends on a high level of community awareness regarding the breadth of current research activity and a shared commitment to collaborate on the development of tools, resources and best practices - both within the UK and internationally. The DCC is committed to undertaking its own research into digital curation and preservation issues and to the development of related tools and resources, but are also eager to promote the extremely valuable work being done by others in the fields of digital curation and preservation. By improving the visibility of current international activity, the DCC hopes to increase the overall awareness of digital curation and preservation issues but also to help foster collaboration between related international curation and preservation initiatives and stakeholder communities. Please feel free to forward this on to any lists or individuals that you feel might be interested in sharing information about their activity in these areas. Best regards, Joy Davidson DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) George Service House, 11 University Gardens, University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QJ Scotland Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592 Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788 http://www.dcc.ac.uk http://www.erpanet.org