The theme of the workshop is, Connecting Digital Preservation Repositories and it's something we thought you might like to know about.
Workshop attendees are expected to come from organizations handling preservation operations, strategies and requirements; technology developers that provide preservation approaches and solutions; and standards bodies establishing preservation best practices in metadata, file format, packaging, management and protection.
“A digital preservation interoperability framework,” explained NIST computer scientist and workshop program chair Wo Chang, “is essential for effective and reliable access to preserved digital content between preservation repositories.
The amount of digital data and content is huge and expanding rapidly. The data range from digitized historical maps, medical images, scientific modeling and simulations, national records, financial transactions, health records, personal photos and videos to blogs and email. A recent study by the International Data Corp. estimates that by 2011 there will be 1,610 exabytes (an exabyte is 1018 bytes) of digital information. (For scale, ***Michael Lesk*** of the Rutgers University Department of Library and Information Science has estimated that the holdings of the entire Library of Congress, if digitized, would amount to about three petabytes (1015).
The project's home pagehas more info and will likely have more as the event gets closer and is completed.
Take special note of the box in the lower right corner labeled "Useful References." It contains four documents, three of which have been published in the past two years.
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