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The Chronicles in Preservation project (http://metaarchive.org/neh) is
seeking further reviews and comments on the Guidelines for Digital
Newspaper Preservation Readiness. This is the first major deliverable
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.
The review period end date has now been extended to September 30, 2013
so that we can receive as many comments as possible. Reviewers now have
the option of requesting a PDF for offline reading (more info below).
http://publishing.educopia.org/chronicles/
About the GuidelinesThe 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 ReviewInterested
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 30, 2013. We
encourage all comments to be submitted via the CommentPress form in the
right sidebar (name and email address are required). Reviewers may also
request a PDF for offline reading using the form on the online cover
page.
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.
Chronicles in Preservation Partners
The Chronicles in
Preservation project is being led by the Educopia Institute (host for
the MetaArchive Cooperative), along with the San Diego Supercomputer
Center and the libraries of University of North Texas, Penn State,
Virginia Tech, University of Utah, Georgia Tech, Boston College, and
Clemson University.
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Matt Schultz
Program Manager
Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
http://www.metaarchive.org
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