Subject: Clarification: LC National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:31:39 -0400
Message-Id: <v04210121b72b41719535@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:31:39 -0400 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: Clarification: LC National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
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May 18, 2001
Clarification:
LC National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
The many-layered announcement that came my way and which I forwarded
yesterday concerning the National Digital Information Infrastructure
and Preservation Program contained inaccurate information. Please
note this clarification from the Library of Congress.
David Green
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:46:41 -0400
From: Tamara Swora-Gober <tswo@loc.gov>
Organization: Library of Congress
To: david@ninch.org
Subject: Clarification: LC National Digital Information Infrastructure and
Preservation Program
Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and
Preservation Program
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CLARIFICATION
The Library of Congress has not contracted with or authorized Henry M.
Gladney to collect information for its National Digital Information
Infrastructure and Preservation Program, as a recent posting to this
listserv might suggest. The Library welcomes all public discussion of
this program and looks forward to working with the information community
on this important initiative.
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>
>
>NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
>News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
>from across the Community
>May 17, 2001
>
>
> LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL FOR INFORMATION ON
> COMMERCAL EXPERTISE IN BORN-DIGITAL PRESERVATION SOLUTIONS
>
> Replies to be directed to <hgladney@pacbell.net>
>
>
>As part of the start-up work of the new "National Digital
>Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program" at the Library
>of Congress, here is an important call for leads to commercial and
>industrial solutions to preservation problems of "born-digital"
>materials.
>
>Replies to Henry Gladney by June 8.
>
>David Green
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>
>
>
>
>From: Jennifer Hodgeman <jhodgeman@nla.gov.au>
>To: "'padiforum-l@nla.gov.au'" <padiforum-l@nla.gov.au>
>Subject: Inquiry: know-how about digital preservation archiving
>Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:59:04 +1000
>Reply-To: padiforum-l@nla.gov.au
>
>This is being passed on for my colleague Henry Gladney. He and I are both
>members of the Audio Engineering Society Technical Committee on Archives
>Restoration and Digital Libraries.
>
>Henry has been asked by the Library of Congress to research the commercial
>sector to make sure that all items of interest have been uncovered. The last
>thing that the Library of Congress wishes to do is to reinvent the wheel
>with their $100,000,000 appropriation for digital archives.
>
>The goal of this Congressional Appropriation is to develop a national
>program to preserve the burgeoning amounts of digital information,
>especially materials that are created only in digital formats, to ensure
>their accessibility for current and future generations. As I read the
>attached information the Library of Congress has been given the lead in this
>project and is to work in conjunction with other agencies and libraries. The
>document appended at the bottom provides the appropriation legislation
>wording and some other background information.
>
>If you are aware of a commercial solution or are a provider of a commercial
>solution, please contact Dr. Gladney (see below). If you are aware of a
>large-scale project planned or undertaken undertaken by a corporation for
>archiving their own assets, please contact Dr. Gladney.
>
>This project will benefit us all as it will provide advancement for a
>unified framework to all of us under which we will be able to archive our
>own projects.
>
>Please respond to Dr. Gladney by close of business June 8th and please feel
>free to pass this on.
>
>Thank you very much.
>
>Richard L. Hess
>Principal Consultant
>National TeleConsultants
>Glendale, CA
>Personal: richard@richardhess.com www.richardhess.com
>
>==============original message====================
>
>On behalf of an advisory committee convened by the Library of Congress, I am
>writing to ask for your help. Deanna Marcum, president of the Council on
>Information and Library Resources and a member of the advisory committee,
>has asked for a quick survey of technology and projects that would inform
>the Library in establishing a preservation program for "born digital"
>content.
>
>In case your associates are not aware of the project that stimulates this
>inquiry, I am attaching an article from the New York Times and a summary of
>the Congressional appropriation statement. For a comprehensive view of the
>underlying challenge, I recommend LC 21: A Digital Strategy for the Library
>of Congress, published by the National Academy Press about a year ago.
>
>Among the questions identified in the report is what relationships should
>exist between the Library's digital initiative and similar activities in
>other institutions. In setting priorities for the digital preservation
>program, I expect that the advisory committee will seek outside views about
>this and will be particularly interested in comments from organizations that
>have considered their own versions of that question.
>
>The committee is well informed about related activities in the federal
>government and universities. However, it is missing insight into the
>commercial and industrial sectors. The scope of the eventual archive is all
>kinds of "born digital" materials: books, papers, images, audio, and video.
>I believe that the Library's biggest challenge will be the immense amount of
>content available. The advisory committee will grapple with an initial
>selection policy, but collection policy is likely to be a perpetual
>question.
>
>To help the advisory committee achieve a quick start, I would be grateful
>for your help in identifying a few people who could lead us to understand in
>broad terms what is going on and what pools of expertise might be consulted.
>Please contact me at the address below.
>
>Regards, Henry
>
>Henry Gladney (408)867-5454
>20044 Glen Brae Drive, Saratoga CA 95070
>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/
>
>P.S. Please feel free to forward this request.
>==========================================================================
>
>Here are the documents referred to as "attached"
>
>MAKING OMNIBUS CONSOLIDATED AND EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR
>FISCAL YEAR 2001 (Public Law 106554)
>
>LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
>
>SALARIES AND EXPENSES
>
>For the Library of Congress, $25,000,000, to remain available until
>expended, for necessary salaries and expenses of the National Digital
>Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program; and an additional
>$75,000,000 to remain available until expended, for such purposes:
>
>Provided, That the portion of such additional $75,000,000, which may be
>expended shall not exceed an amount equal to the matching
>contributions (including contributions other than money) for such
>purposes that (1) are received by the Librarian of Congress for the
>program from non-Federal sources, and (2) are received before March
>31, 2003:
>
>Provided further, That such program shall be carried out in
>accordance with a plan or plans approved by the Committee on House
>Administration of the House of Representatives, the Committee on
>Rules and Administration of the Senate, the Committee on
>Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on
>Appropriations of the Senate:
>
>Provided further, That of the total amount appropriated, $5,000,000
>may be expended before the approval of a plan to develop such a
>plan, and to collect or preserve essential digital information which
>otherwise would be uncollectible:
>
>Provided further, That the balance in excess of such $5,000,000 shall not
>be expended without approval in advance by the Committee on Appropriations
>of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations
>of the Senate:
>
>Provided further, That the plan under this heading shall be
>developed by the Librarian of Congress jointly with entities of the
>Federal government with expertise in telecommunications technology
>and electronic commerce policy (including the Secretary of Commerce
>and the Director of the White House
>Office of Science and Technology Policy) and the National Archives and
>Records Administration, and with the participation of representatives of
>other Federal, research, and private libraries and institutions with
>expertise in the collection and maintenance of archives of digital materials
>(including the National Library of Medicine, the National Agricultural
>Library, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Research
>Libraries Group, the Online Computer Library Center, and the Council on
>Library and Information Resources) and representatives of private business
>organizations which are involved in efforts to preserve, collect, and
>disseminate information in digital formats (including the Open eBook Forum):
>Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, effective
>with the One Hundred Seventh Congress and each succeeding Congress
>the chair of the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch of the
>Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives shall
>serve as a member of the Joint Committee on the Library with respect
>to the Library's financial management, organization, budget
>development and implementation, and program development and
>administration, as well as any other element of the mission of the
>Library of Congress which is subject to the requirements of Federal
>law.
>
>
>MAKING OMNIBUS CONSOLIDATED AND EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR
>FISCAL YEAR 2001 (Public Law 106554)
>
>Statement of Managers Language from the Conference Report (House Report
>1061033)
>
>LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
>
>SALARIES AND EXPENSES
>
>The agreement provides $100,000,000 to the Library of Congress to establish
>a national digital information infrastructure and preservation program. Of
>this amount, $25,000,000 is provided immediately and remains available until
>expended. An additional amount up to $75,000,000 is provided to match
>dollar-for-dollar any nonfederal contributions to this program, including
>in-kind contributions, that are received before March 31, 2003. The
>information and technology industry that has created this new medium should
>be a contributing partner in addressing digital access and preservation
>issues inherent in the new digital information environment. This program is
>a major undertaking to develop standards and a nationwide collecting
>strategy to build a national repository of digital materials.
>
>The Library is directed to develop a phased implementation plan for this
>program jointly with Federal entities with expertise in telecommunications
>technology and electronic commerce policy and with participation of other
>Federal and non-Federal entities. After consultation with the Joint Committee
>on the Library, membership of which is changed to include the chair of the
>Legislative Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
>Representatives, the Library shall seek approval of the program plan from
>the Committee on House Administration, the Committee on Rules and
>Administration of the Senate, and the Committees on Appropriations of the
>House of Representatives and the Senate. The Library of Congress is
>authorized to expend up to $5,000,000, before approval of the plan, for the
>development of the plan and for collecting or preserving digital information
>that may otherwise vanish during the plan development and approval cycle.
>
>The overall plan should set forth a strategy for the Library of Congress, in
>collaboration with other Federal and non-Federal entities, to identify a
>national network of libraries and other organizations with responsibilities
>for collecting digital materials that will provide access to and maintain
>those materials. In addition to developing this strategy, the plan shall set
>forth, in concert with the Copyright Office, the policies, protocols, and
>strategies for the long-term preservation of such materials, including the
>technological infrastructure required at the Library of Congress. In
>developing the plan, the Library should be mindful of the conclusions drawn
>in a recent National Academy of Sciences report concerning the Library's
>trend toward insularity and isolation from its clients and peers in the
>transition toward digital content.
>=========================================================================
>
>Library to Lead National Effort to Develop Digital Information
>Infrastructure and Preservation Program:
>
>U.S. Congress Provides $100 Million Special Appropriation in Support
>of Project
>
>
>The Library of Congress has been empowered by the U. S. Congress to
>develop a national program to preserve the burgeoning amounts of digital
>information, especially materials that are created only in digital formats,
>to ensure their accessibility for current and future generations.
> The Library of Congress began in 1998 to develop a digital strategy
>with a group of senior managers assessing the roles and responsibilities of
>the Library in the electronic environment. At the same time, Librarian of
>Congress James H. Billington commissioned the National Research Council
>Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academy of
>Sciences (NAS) to evaluate the Library's readiness to meet the challenges of
>the rapidly evolving digital world.
> The NAS report, LC 21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of
>Congress, recommended that the Library, working with other federal and
>non-federal institutions, take the lead in a national, cooperative effort to
>archive and preserve digital information.
> "This collaborative strategy will permit the long-term acquisition,
>storage and preservation of digital materials, that will assure access to
>the growing electronic historical and cultural record of our nation," said
>Dr. Billington. "Just as the Congress enabled the Library of Congress to
>begin the last century by making its printed catalog cards widely available,
>the Congress has enabled its Library to begin this century by building a
>digital record and making it available in the information age." In December
>2000, the 106th Congress appropriated $100 million for this effort, which
>instructs the Library to spend an initial $25 million to develop and execute
>a congressionally approved strategic plan for a National Digital Information
>Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Congress specified that, of this
>amount, $5 million may be spent during the initial phase for planning as
>well as the acquisition and preservation of digital information that may
>otherwise vanish.
> The legislation authorizes as much as $75 million of federal funding
>to be made available as this amount is matched by nonfederal donations,
>including in-kind contributions, through March 31, 2003. The effect of a
>government-wide recission of .22 percent in late December was to reduce this
>special appropriation to $99.8 million.
> The Library will consult with federal partners to assess joint
>planning considerations for shared responsibilities. The Library will also
>seek participation from the nonfederal sector and will execute its overall
>strategy in cooperation with the library, creative, publishing, technology
>and copyright communities in this country and abroad.
> The legislation calls for the Library to work jointly with the
>Secretary of Commerce, the director of the White House Office of Science and
>Technology Policy, and the National Archives and Records Administration. The
>legislation also directs the Library to seek the participation of "other
>federal, research and private libraries and institutions with expertise in
>the collection and maintenance of archives of digital materials," including
>the National Library of Medicine, the National Agricultural Library, the
>Research Libraries Group, the Online Computer Library Center and the Council
>on Library and Information Resources.
> Laura Campbell, the Library's recently appointed Associate Librarian
>for Strategic Initiatives, will oversee these efforts. She noted that, "as
>the national library and home of the U.S. Copyright Office, the Library of
>Congress must lead this effort, which poses enormous challenges and exciting
>opportunities. To succeed, we must have broad participation from the public
>and private sectors."
> New York Times, January 12, 2001,
>Contact: Guy Lamolinara (202) 707-9217
>
>Richard L. Hess richard@richardhess.com
>Glendale, CA USA http://www.richardhess.com/
>Web page: folk and church music, photography, and
> broadcast engineering
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