The FAIRsFAIR Project held an online conference in January 2022 to mark the completion of its work.  It included a conversation between Ingrid Dillo, Deputy Director at DANS, and William Killbride, Executive Director at Digital Preservation Coalition, about digital preservation in the context of the FAIR principles.  The text of the interview has been published, and it is available as a recording too on the FAIRsFAIR website where there’s a lot more about the project and its outputs.

Officially launched in February 2002, the DPC was charged with fostering joint action to address the urgent challenges of securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally to secure our global digital memory and knowledge base. Since then, the DPC has gone from strength to strength, becoming a community of support and practice for 125 different organisations around the world, and their staff. Having started with roots in the UK and Ireland, the DPC now has members in different sectors, in twenty countries and on five continents. They represent, amongst others, global corporations, national and local memory institutions, higher education and research institutions, broadcasters, strategic investors and funding bodies and professional bodies.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome CLOCKSS, as they become the newest Full Member of the Coalition.

A collaboration between leading research libraries and academic publishers around the globe, CLOCKSS is a digital preservation archive for scholarly content. It focuses on content licensed or published by research libraries, and is currently entrusted to preserve more than 46 million journal articles and 260,000 books. These are held in twelve secure repositories distributed around the world at major academic institutions.

Springer Nature will partner with CLOCKSS to ensure the long-term preservation of all books published since 1815. Around 300,000 book titles crucially important for the scholarly record will now be kept safe for posterity. This includes titles in multiple languages, including English and German, and from a range of imprints including the renowned Springer and Palgrave Macmillan imprints. Titles include The Meaning of Relativity, published by Albert Einstein in 1922.

Against the Grain‘s latest issue (December 2021/January 2022) includes a special section on the past, present and future of web archiving. Read the editorial and view the table of contents. All articles are open.

Portico reviews the expansion of its digital archive with a focus on special library collections, under-represented archive content and complex content that contains dynamic elements. Portico is embarking on a new project called Embedding Preservability and developing a new text and data analysis service named Constellate, in cooperation with ITHAKA.

In January 2022, HathiTrust will celebrate the Public Domain Day. Titles published in 1926 will enter the public domain in the United States, including more than 42,000 items in the HathiTrust collection. Readers will also gain public domain access to 54,000+ titles published in 1896, and up through 1901 if published in Canada or Australia.

1926 Publications Collection

Worldwide Collection January 2022

PKP is sharing an important update on Project JASPER, in partnership with DOAJ, Internet Archive, CLOCKSS and Keepers Registry. Project JASPER (JournAlS are Preserved forevER) is an initiative to preserve open access journals. It was launched on World Preservation Day 2020 and is in response to research that shows that online journals—both open and closed access journals—can just disappear from the internet. This happens because of a lack of awareness amongst smaller publishers around the need for long-term digital preservation and/or the resources to enroll a journal in a long-term digital preservation scheme.

This webinar held on 16 September 2021 introduced a draft of the NASIG Digital Preservation Model Policy as it moves into the comment and revision stage of development. This evolving policy was designed as a tool to publicize, measure, and grow your organization’s commitment to the preservation of its scholarly assets. It includes identifying first step initiatives, activities emerging in the field, and opportunities to share and refine professional experiences. The policy is available for public comment until 30 November 2021.

Download the draft document or submit comments. Look at the video recording.

As the Internet Archive turns 25, you are invited on a journey from way back to way forward, through the pivotal moments when knowledge became more accessible for all.  In 1996, a young computer scientist named Brewster Kahle dreamed of building a library containing all the published works of humankind, free to the public, built to last the ages. He named this digital library the Internet Archive. Its mission: to provide everyone with “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” Dive deep into stories, collections & important milestones in an interactive timeline.