William LeFurgy
Digital Initiatives Program Manager
Library of Congress
Daniel Greenstein
Associate Vice Provost for Scholarly Information
University of California
Martha Anderson
NDIIPP Program Officer
Library of Congress
In December 2000 Congress authorized the Library of Congress to develop and execute a plan for a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). The Library developed a plan outlining a strategy for the Library to build a national network of organizations with responsibilities for collecting digital materials, and to identify the policies, protocols and strategies needed for digital preservation. In September 2004 the Library made awards to eight institutions and their partners to identify, collect, and preserve digital materials within a collaborative digital preservation network. The institutions share responsibilities for preserving at-risk digital materials of significant cultural and historical value to the nation, including digital content relating to political web sites, public television programs, geospatial data, culture and history collections, social science data, and legal and business materials relating to the birth of the dot com era. This session will provide an update on NDIIPP overall with a focus on partnership network building activities. Speakers from the Library will outline goals for the partnerships and review progress in meeting those goals. A speaker from the California Digital Library, one of the Library’s awardees, will provide a partner’s perspective and discuss the institutional experience of participating in a national preservation network.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov
Handout:
Press Release on NDIIPP Partnerships
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/about/pr_093004.html
PowerPoint Presentations:
LeFurgy
Greenstein
Anderson
