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.
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.
Community Webs, the Internet Archive’s community history web and digital archiving program, is welcoming over 60 new members from across the US, Canada, and internationally. Community Webs empowers cultural heritage organizations to collaborate with their communities to build web and digital archives of primary sources documenting local history and culture. The program achieves this mission by providing its members with free access to the Archive-It web archiving service, digital preservation and digitization services, and technical support in topics such as web archiving, community outreach, and digital preservation. The program also offers resources to support a local history archiving community of practice and to facilitate scholarly research.
To ensure digital scholarly content in all formats remains available to future users, all organizations involved in scholarly production and dissemination have a role to take in digital preservation. NASIG introduced its Digital Preservation Model Policy as it moves into the comment and revision stage of development. This evolving policy, designed as a tool to publicize, measure, and grow organizations’ commitment to the preservation of their scholarly assets, 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 from August to November 30, 2021. Download the draft document or submit comments.
The coordinator of the Brazilian Network of Digital Preservation Services (Cariniana) of the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict), Miguel Angel Márdero Arellano, participated in an open class entitled “Data Blackout and Information Preservation, what is the future?”. During the webinar, scholars debated about digital preservation as a public policy for information and data management and the concern with informational risk. Watch the webinar on YouTube.
O coordenador da Rede Brasileira de Serviços de Preservação Digital (Cariniana) do Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (Ibict), Miguel Angel Márdero Arellano, participou numa aula aberta intitulada “Blackout de Dados e Preservação da Informação, qual é o futuro? Durante o webinar, estudiosos debateram sobre a preservação digital como política pública de gestão de informação e de dados e a preocupação com o risco informativo. Veja o webinar no YouTube.
Hathi Trust’s Board of Governors approved the appointment of the following four candidates to serve on the Program Steering Committee (PSC) for three years, beginning July 2021:
Christopher Cox, Dean of Libraries, Clemson University (HathiTrust member since 2019)
Dracine Hodges, AUL for Technical Services, Duke University (HathiTrust member since 2010)
Nathan Mealey, AUL for Discovery & Access, Wesleyan University (HathiTrust member since 2016)
Catherine Mitchell, Director, Publishing, Archives, and Digitization, California Digital Library (HathiTrust member since 2008).
The e-Depot of the KB, the national library of the Netherlands, has been awarded the CoreTrustSeal for Trustworthy Data Repositories. The CoreTrustSeal offers an internationally recognized certification in the area of digital preservation. This certificate is an important recognition for all activities aimed at preserving the KB’s digital collections and keeping them accessible. It proves that the national library of the Netherlands adheres to the core level of requirements needed to sustain a trustworthy digital archive.
This paper presents key findings from the AHRC-funded Digital Library Futures project. Its purpose is to provide a “user-centric” perspective on the potential future impact of the digital collections that are being created under electronic legal deposit regulations. The authors show that contemporary tensions between user behaviour and access protocols risk limiting the instrumental value of these digital library collections, which are not being used in the way that they could, due to access and legal restrictions.
