In April DLIST welcomed the Learning Technologies Center as our hosting partner. Thanks to the Arizona Health Sciences Library, especially Paul Bracke, for hosting DLIST almost since inception and welcome to the LTC. This move has prompted me to look into the whole issue of digital preservation much, much more closely. RLG's 1998 study by Margaret Hedstrom and Sheon Montgomory is, of course, a classic, by now. By this I mean Digital Presevation: Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions. Hedstrom's Digital Preservation Research Agenda is also worth a read (although in her conclusion here about SDSC as a testbed and the importance of testbeds in connecting developers to collection managers, Hedstrom forgets other important groups such as evaluators and end users) as is the widely available talk, Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries. Important challenges include the life-long support and almost constant maintenance of digital objects. The bibliography I liked best (although dated) is from the National Library of Australia - PADI, Preserving Access to Digital Information.
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