New Special Issue of NISO's Information Standards Quarterly Now Available; Theme is Digital Preservation
We usually limit our posts about new issues of publications to those where most if not all of the content is available online and for free. However, we're going to make an exception this time because it's a special issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) that focuses on digital preservation, a topic we know many of you are interested in. ISQ is published by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO).
This Guest Content Editor for the Digital Preservation issue was Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director for Digital Library Services, Florida Center for Library Automation.
Finally, three pieces from this issue ARE available online and at no charge. They are linked below.
+ Digital Preservation Metadata Standards
by Angela Dappert and Markus Enders
+ Process Models and the Development of Trustworthy Digital Repositories
by Robin L. Dale and Emily B. Gore
+ Digital Preservation Plan: Ensuring Long Term Access and Authenticity of Digital Collections
by Liz Bishoff
+ Unified Digital Formats Registry (UDFR)
by Andrea Goethals
In Practice
+ Selecting Preservation File Formats
by Evelyn McLellan
+ Format Considerations in AudioVisual Preservation Reformatting: Snapshots form the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
by Carl Fleischhauer
+ Digital Preservation in Capable Hands: Taking Control of Risk Assessment at the National Library of New Zealand
by Kevin De Vorsey and Peter McKinney
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Conference Reports
NIST Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework
E-books and Standards Webinar
by Priscilla Caplan
What It Takes to Make It Last: E-Resources Preservation: A NISO Webinar
by Melissa Goertzen
Electronic Resources & Libraries 2010 Conference
by Valerie Ryder
Noteworthy
Free Full Text Online: Entire Section
Topics include: Codecs Primer for Archives; Distributed Digital Preservation Guide from the MetaArchive Cooperative; and Planets Survey Gauges Organizational Readiness for Digital Preservation
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