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The Chronicles in Preservation project (http://metaarchive.org/neh) is proud to announce the release of the online review edition of the Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness. This is the first major deliverable coming forth from this
three-year project (2011-2014) funded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) to research and document a series of preservation
readiness steps for digital newspaper curators.
http://publishing.educopia.org/chronicles/
About the Guidelines
The Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness seek
to address digital preservation standards and digital newspaper
technical guidelines/practices across a spectrum of readiness options. The Guidelines are
geared toward improving preservation
readiness for both digitized and born-digital newspaper content. We hope
they will be helpful for a wide range of stakeholder institutions
(including commercial news
publishers), particularly traditional memory stewards such as
libraries, archives, and historical societies.
How to Review
Interested digital preservation practitioners and experts/curators
working in the area of managing and preserving digital news and
newspapers are
encouraged to review and supply online comments at their leisure between
July 22-September 20, 2013. Review comments can be provided via the
CommentPress form in the right sidebar (name and email address are
required). Each page can be individually printed or saved as a PDF for
offline reading (ctrl+ or cmd+ P, Save as PDF).
As the Introduction to the Guidelines states:
We need content curators to help us understand what we’ve missed (we know there are gaps!) and what we’ve nailed. We want to know where you need more guidance and where you need less description. We want you to point us towards other resources in the field we may have missed, and above all, we want you to engage with us and with each other to make the final Guidelines as useful as they can possibly be.
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