Beth Sandore
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Planning and Policy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William G. LeFurgy
Digital Initiatives Program Manager
Library of Congress
Patricia Cruse
Director, Digital Preservation, California Digital Library
University of California, Office of the President
Martin Halbert
Director for Library Systems
Emory University
Sarah M. Pritchard
University Librarian
University of California, Santa Barbara
Steven Morris
Head of Digital Library Initiative
North Carolina State University
David A. Kirsch
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland
Myron P. Gutmann
Director, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
University of Michigan
In December 2000, Congress passed special legislation (Public Law 106-554) in recognition of the importance of preserving digital content for future generations, appropriating $100 million to the Library of Congress to lead this effort. The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP), provides a national focus on important policy, standards and technical components necessary to preserve digital content. Investments in modeling and testing various options and technical solutions will take place over several years, resulting in recommendations to the U.S. Congress about the most viable and sustainable options for long-term preservation. One year into the Library of Congress NDIIPP partnership, the Library of Congress and seven of the eight partners discuss the challenges of digital preservation and report significant milestones in their projects.
Library of Congress
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov
Web at Risk:
A Distributed Approach To Preserving Our Nation’s Political Cultural Heritage
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/preservation/webatrisk/
MetaArchive
http://www.metaarchive.org/
National Geospatial Digital Archive
http://ngda.org/index.php
North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project (NCGDAP)
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ncgdap/
EchoDepository Project
http://ndiipp.uiuc.edu
Dot Com Archive
http://www.dotcomarchive.org/
Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DATAPASS