Portico and the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) are partners of the ISSN International Centre as active archiving agencies contributing to Keepers Registry. In 2018, Portico and the KB worked together to establish an online replica of the Portico archive at the KB. They have now agreed to extend this hosting arrangement.
Hathi Trust has partnered with Athenaeum 21, a long-standing digital strategy and technology planning consultancy and collaborator in the library and cultural heritage community. The 3-part collaborative visioning process will help Hathi Trust connect with people throughout their member libraries — subject librarians, deans, collection managers, directors — as well as with HathiTrust staff and industry peers through the end of 2023.
The Archival Resource Key (ARK) is a persistent identifier supported by the California Digital Library and designed for any kind of information object, whether digital, physical, or conceptual. The number of ARK organizations has almost doubled since 2020. This follow-up briefing introduces ARKs as applied to archived scholarship, scientific samples, vocabulary terms, and biomedical information.
The Library of Congress has a new Digitization Strategy for its collections. The Strategy is intended to produce the following major results over its five-year life:
– Move toward a digital-forward and e-preferred acquisitions model.
– Support broad, diverse and inclusive collecting.
– Improve service and access for users.
– Modernize IT infrastructure to improve workflows and processes.
– Support digital collections workforce development.
IFLA’s PAC Centres are hubs of knowledge for documentary heritage preservation and access – hosted in major institutions around the world. PAC Centres take initiative to identify and raise awareness of preservation and conservation issues within the library field. Through this network, they engage with IFLA HQ to assist in capacity building and share information relevant to the global library field. Here are some of the activities carried out by IFLA PAC Centres over the past reporting period (2021-2022).
Depuis le 1er octobre, BelgicaPeriodicals a franchi un cap symbolique en proposant plus d’un million de pages numérisées de revues belges disponibles en recherche plein texte. BelgicaPeriodicals donne accès à 134 revues et parutions périodiques datant du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours et conservées à la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (KBR). Grâce à l’automatisation partielle des chaines de numérisation due à l’introduction de robots scanners dans le parc de numérisation, la KBR a pu considérablement accélérer le rythme de numérisation des revues conservées dans nos collections.
The proceedings of iPres 2022 are now available for download!
They contain the published and peer-reviewed submissions of the 18th International Conference on Digital Preservation. The conference was hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) in Glasgow, Scotland from the 12th-16th September 2022.
iPres 2022 met under the heading ‘Data for all, for good and for ever’. Five themes were expressed in the main headings of the conference: Community, Environment, Exchange, Innovation and Resilience .
Scholarship is changing and this is affecting what needs to be preserved and what preservation means to the future of knowledge discovery. The diversification of outputs means that knowledge exists in a network of contextual metadata, data, software, standards and publications—requiring multilateral management of this complex knowledge graph. Preservation demands new skills, technologies and resources from librarians, publishers, funders and institutions—and more joined-up thinking about archiving.
Em clima de comemoração pelos seus dez anos de atuação, a Rede Brasileira de Serviços de Preservação Digital (Rede Cariniana), do Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (Ibict), realizou um encontro histórico entre os dias 11 e 13 de julho. A Cariniana foi construída de forma colaborativa e com princípios a serem cumpridos a longo prazo. O evento reuniu os principais nomes da Preservação Digital no mundo para discutir aspectos técnicos e organizacionais para acompanhamento e avaliação das atividades realizadas durante a última década. Contou com workshops de capacitação profissional e uma ampla retrospectiva do trabalho da Rede, além da apresentação de novos serviços e projetos das instituições parceiras. Ibict acolhe o Centro Brasileiro ISSN. Conheça o Dossiê temático sobre os 10 anos da Rede Cariniana.
In a commemoration mood for its ten years of operation, the Brazilian Network of Digital Preservation Services (Cariniana Network), of the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology (Ibict), held a historic meeting between 11 and 13 July. The Carinian Network was built collaboratively and with principles to be fulfilled in the long term. The event brought together the main international stakeholders of Digital Preservation to discuss technical and organizational aspects for monitoring and evaluation of the activities undertaken during the last decade. It included professional training workshops and a broad retrospective of the work accomplished, as well as the presentation of new services and projects of the partner institutions. Ibict hosts the Brazilian ISSN Centre. Read the thematic dossier on the 10 years of Cariniana Network.
