Grâce à une subvention de CollEx-Persée, les plans de conservation partagée, qu’accompagne le Centre Technique du Livre de l’enseignement supérieur (CTLes), ont pu être étendus au-delà du périmètre initial de l’Île-de-France et couvrir de nouveaux domaines. Les pôles de conservation ne s’engagent pas seulement à conserver les titres mais aussi à y donner accès. Les plans de conservation partagée et les pôles de conservation, sont signalés sur l’outil Périscope conçu par l’ABES, l’Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur.

Face aux défis de la diversité des publics et de son implantation dans quatre pays, la médiathèque de l’Institut français du Proche-Orient développe une stratégie de partenariats et de valorisation numérique de ses collections, couvrant les recherches en sciences humaines et sociales sur le Proche-Orient depuis le début du XX^e siècle.

One week after launching the initiative Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO), co-organizers from Stanford University, Tufts University and Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, report that the project’s Volunteers from across the world have captured over 1,500 Ukrainian museum and library websites, digital exhibits, text corpora, and open access publications. More than 1,300 cultural heritage professionals are working together to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions while the country is under attack. They are using a combination of technologies to crawl and archive sites and content, including the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the Browsertrix crawler.

Visit their collective page.

This report describes preservation activities, methods, and context for the Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship project, a two-year project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by New York University Libraries. Digital preservation institutions, libraries, and university presses, examined a variety of enhanced digital publications and identified which features can be preserved at scale using tools currently available.

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.