1: Archiving, Preservation, and Permanent Access

This project is focused on providing long-term preservation and access to information that was originally created or disseminated primarily in electronic form. CENDI's Digital Preservation Task Group, under the auspices of the Content Management and Access Working Group, reviews digital archiving practices and guidelines that are being developed by publishers, library organizations and other stakeholder groups with an eye to how these practices and guidelines can be used in the federal information environment.

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In September of 2004, the Content Management and Access working group held a workshop in Bethesda, Maryland. Called Web Page and Journal Archiving: NLM's Experiences, this workshop featured updates on CENDI digital preservation efforts, and focused in particular on the preservation projects and initiatives of the National Library of Medicine. A specific draft standard of interest is the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. Managing and Preserving Electronic Resources: The OAIS Reference Model, a symposium sponsored jointly by CENDI and and the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC), was held December 11, 2001. In 1999, CENDI and the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) jointly sponsored a review of the state of the practice of digital archiving. Over 30 organizations were surveyed and 18 were interviewed to collect information regarding technology, policy, procedures, and metadata in operational or prototype projects. The results of this project were reported in Digital Electronic Archiving: The State of the Art and the State of the Practice, a report to ICSTI and CENDI. An update of the report was completed in 2004. The updated version, CENDI 2004-3, is available in PDF.

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