Tras un trabajo conjunto entre la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú (BNP) y Editora Perú, el Ministerio de Cultura (Mincul) declaró Patrimonio Cultural de la Nación 54 volúmenes facticios (impresos diversos) del Diario Oficial El Peruano, correspondientes al periodo comprendido desde 1868 hasta 1900. Estos volúmenes forman parte de la colección más completa del Diario Oficial El Peruano. La Biblioteca Nacional inscribirá estos ejemplares en el Registro Nacional de Material Bibliográfico y coordinará con Editora Perú, las acciones necesarias para la protección, conservación y difusión de los 54 volúmenes.

At  iPRES 2023, Matthew Addis, Chief Technology Officer at Arkivum, raised the issue of environmental sustainability and climate change, and notably the interplay between doing digital preservation at ever larger scales and the environmental impact that this can have. He also alerted about climate change being surely an existential threat to our current digital memory.

See the panel’s suggestions to address the deluge of data and the many ways to reduce the carbon footprint.

The CLOCKSS community is growing! Content has been added to the archive from 556 participating publishers including 82 new ones. The CLOCKSS community is delighted to welcome all new publishers and note that they range in shape and size from OA monograph publishers hosted on OAPEN through to Kluwer Law International. This year the archive has grown to include 53 million articles and 467,000 books. This includes content from publishers in 61 countries.

CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) employs a unique approach to archiving (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) that was initiated by Stanford University librarians in 1999.

After more than three years of litigation, it took judge John G. Koeltl just hours to sign off on the parties’ negotiated consent judgment—but not without a final twist. In a short written opinion, Koeltl sided with the Internet Archive in a final dispute, limiting the scope of the permanent injunction to cover only the plaintiffs’ print books that also have electronic editions available.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has made available the next in its series of Technology Watch Guidance Notes, Choosing a Persistent Identifier Type for Your Digital Objects by Remco van Veenendaal of the National Archives of the Netherlands.

With a long-standing alliance between the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the International Council on Archives (ICA) already in place, the two organizations observe the signing of a Friendship Agreement, at a joint webinar to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the ICA. In practice this means that the DPC and ICA will explore joint initiatives related to digital preservation that tackle significant topics relevant to both communities, as well as supporting each other in the creation and dissemination of resources for the use of archivists and digital preservation practitioners around the world.

The core mission of libraries is to ensure perpetual access to the record of knowledge. As a review of the NASIG webinar (formerly North American Serials Interest Group), ‘Integrating Preservation into Librarian Workflows’, this article examines working models constructed to sustain perpetual access for their institutional communities. Two critically distinct aspects are highlighted. One is concerned with long-term preservation and the other addresses a library’s ability to provide post-cancellation access to its user community, given budgetary or physical space constraints. In 2022, NASIG approved the committee’s Model Digital Preservation Policy, which is supposed to be revised through shared library use cases.

The role of the Keepers Registry is also explained.

From web archives to television news to digitized books & periodicals, dozens of projects rely on the collections available at archive.org for computational & bibliographic research across a large digital corpus. This series will feature six sessions highlighting the innovative scholars that are using Internet Archive collections, services and APIs to support data-driven projects in the humanities and beyond.

This paper by Branka Marijanović and Hrvoje Stanĉić, based at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, examines digital archiving policies of open access electronic scholarly journals in Central Europe. They studied a sample of 1,589 journals registered with DOAJ and found that 69% of them have an archiving policy. Portico and national libraries are the most widely used archives. 19% of the preserved journals are archived in more than one archive. A comparison with Asian journals show that they are less archived than Central European ones.