Before lunch, we discussed a number of initiatives and tools that are emerging in digital preservation. I’m just going to list a few right now because there are so many.
UK Initiatives
JISC - Funding body
AHDS - Arts and Humanities Data Service
DPC - Digital Preservation Coalition (course organisers)
DCC - Digital Curation Centre. Courses, conferences, online forum, specifically interested in curatorial issues.
UKOLN - Advisory service
UKDA - UK Data Archive
NDAD - The National Digital Archive of Datasets
UKWAC - UK Web Archving Consortium
TNA - The National Archives
Non-UK Initiatives
NARA - Electronic Records Archive (USA) Project with $300m funding
National Archives of Australia Digital Preservation Service
PADI – National Library of Australia’s subject gateway to international digital preservation resources
ECPA – The European Commission on Preservation and Access
RLG – Research Libraries Group
Library of Congress Digital Preservation
ERPANET – Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network
Tools (these were all demonstrated and very interesting – I think we could use one or two of them. And they are all open source and written in Java which Merlin’s Team have expertise in).
PRONOM/DROID – PRONOM is a file format registry at The National Archives. DROID is a tool which works in conjunction with PRONOM.
JHOVE - Validates digital files and extracts preservation metadata. Very cool. Really!
National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extraction Tool
XENA – XML Electronic Normalisinig of Archives
