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Digital Preservation

Introduction

The preservation of digital content is a central issue in the shift to network-based scholarly communication and has also emerged as a broad and fundamental social and public policy issue. CNI works with ARL and other partner organizations, including the Digital Library Federation, the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR, and the Research Libraries Group on the full range of technical, economic, and strategic issues surounding digital preservation. The Coalition collaborates with the Libarry of Congress in its efforts to develop and build consensus around a national digital preservation strategy. The Coalition also explores issues at the juncture of records management, archival practice, and preservation of digital materials through its support of the Arizona State University ECURE conferences.

CNI-Sponsored Activities

• CNI Fall 2003 Task Force Meeting
• CNI Spring 2003 Task Force Meeting
• CNI Fall 2002 Task Force Meeting
• CNI Spring 2002 Task Force Meeting
• ECURE Conference on Electronic Records, October 9-11, 2002, Mesa AZ.

Publications and Presentations

• Delivered closing keynote at the Digital Archives for Science and Engineering Summit (DASER), November 22-23, 2003, in Boston, MA. (Lynch)
• Participated on a panel on "Interoperability: the Possibilities of Us All Getting Along," at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting, August 22, 2003, in Los Angeles, CA. (Lynch)
• Clifford Lynch, "Preserving Digital Information to Support Scholarship," in Maureen Devlin, Richard Larsen, and Joel Meyerson,
  eds., The Internet & the University: Forum 2002 (EDUCAUSE 2003).
• Delivered closing keynote at Selection and Collaboration in Digital Preservation, March 25, 2003, Washington, DC. (Lynch)
• Spoke at Preserving Legal Information for the 21st Century: Toward a National Agenda at Georgetown University, March 7, 2003. (Lynch)
• Delivered a keynote address at Archiving Forum: Preserving Digital Content (and the Opportunities It Holds) for the Long Haul, sponsored by American Medical Publishers and the National Library of Medicine, March 4, 2002. (VIDEO available via meeting Web site) (Lynch)
• Delivered keynote at ECURE 2002, October 11, 2002, Mesa, AZ. (Available in video format, or as transcript) (Lynch)
• Delivered keynote at Society of American Archivists annual meeting, August 24, 2002, in Birmingham, AL. (Lynch)

Other Activities

• As a member of the NRC Committee on Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration, contributed to Building an Electronic Records Archive at the National Archives and Records Administration: Recommendations for Initial Development. (Lynch)
• Participated in a meeting on archiving architecture at Library of Congress, April 15, 2003. (Lynch)
• Reviewed documents and advised the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board for the Library of Congress. Congress approved the Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in February 2003. (Lynch)