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Aligning National Approaches to Digital
Preservation (ANAD
(I know that announcements of the availability of this volume
have had considerable distribution, but I wanted to add a few comments
of my own)
In May of 2011, I was fortunate to be able to participate in a
very valuable conference hosted by the National Library of Estonia to
explore international co-ordination and collaboration in efforts to
preserve digital cultural memory that were underway in various
nations. The National Library facility and the city of Tallinn --
which I had not had the opportunity to visit previously --
provided a truely inspiring background for considering these issues
and opportunities, which I think are tremendously important and
promising, and are starting to gather increasing attention in various
ongoing fora such as the International Internet Preservation
Consortium and PASIG. But this workshop is perhaps the broadest look
at the range of opportunities in this area, which include such
fascinating issues as trying to understand how various nations
actually scope the digital cultural record and define the role of
their national and research libraries in preserving it. The
proceedings of the Tallinn conference have now been published as an
freely downloadable PDF (there is also a print version available for
purchase), and I have reproduced the announcement below. And I'm proud
to have been able to contribute a summay essay to the volume, based on
my remarks at the end of the Tallinn meeting. I think this volume will
be of interest to all those interested in national strategies for
digital preservation and how they might be coordinated and extended
into international collaborations.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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It is our great pleasure to announce the publication of Aligning
National Approaches to Digital Preservation, edited by Nancy Y.
McGovern (Volume Editor) and Katherine Skinner (Series Editor).
On May 23-25 2011, more than 125 delegates from more than 20 countries
gathered in Tallinn, Estonia, for the " Aligning National
Approaches to Digital Preservation" conference. At the National
Library of Estonia, this group explored how to create and sustain
international collaborations to support the preservation of our
collective digital cultural memory. Organized and hosted by the
Educopia Institute, the National Library of Estonia, the US Library of
Congress, the University of North Texas, and Auburn University, this
gathering established a strong foundation for future collaborative
efforts in digital preservation.
This publication contains a collection of peer-reviewed essays that
were developed by conference panels and attendees in the months
following ANADP. Rather than simply chronicling the event, the volume
deliberately broadens and deepens its impact by reflecting on the
ANADP presentations and conversations and establishing a set of
starting points for building a greater alignment across digital
preservation initiatives. Above all, it highlights the need for
strategic international collaborations to support the preservation of
our collective cultural memory.
This guide is written with a broad audience in mind that includes
librarians, archivists, scholars, curators, technologists, lawyers,
researchers, and administrators at many different types of memory
organizations.
Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation is the
second of a series of volumes edited by Katherine Skinner (Series
Editor) and published by the Educopia Institute describing successful
collaborative strategies and articulating new models that may help
memory organizations work together for their mutual benefit.
Readers may access Aligning National Approaches to Digital
Preservation as a freely downloadable pdf and/or as a print
publication for purchase. Please visit http://www.educopia.org/publications to download or order the
book.
Authors include:
Martha Anderson, Inge Angevaare, Dwayne Buttler, Laura Campbell,
Sheila Corrall, George Coulbourne, Joy Davidson, Christian Egger,
Michelle Gallinger, David Giaretta, Neil Grindley, Martin Halbert, Jan
Hutar, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Christopher A. Lee, Maurizio
Lunghi, Clifford Lynch, Nancy Y. McGovern, Marek Melichar, Wilma
Mossink, Adrienne Muir, Andreas Rauber, Adam Rusbridge, Raivo
Ruusalepp, Gunnar Sahlin, Sabine Schrimpf, Matt Schultz, Michael
Seadle, Katherine Skinner, Bohdana Stoklasova, Aaron Trehub, Bram van
der Werf, and Matthew Woolard
Best regards,
Martin Halbert, PhD, MLIS
Dean of Libraries and Associate Professor
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