It's About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation (2003) (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/repor/NSF_LC_Final_Report.pdf

Harry Goldstein, The Infinite Archive, IEEE Spectrum Online, January 1, 2004. A short piece highlighting "key projects" in the long-term preservation of digital content, including DSpace, the Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), and the Internet Archive.

From Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

The theme for next year is Archives and Artifacts and some of you may be interested in presenting. Information can be found at
http://www.theaha.org/annual/2005/CFP2005.htm . The proposal deadline is 2/15/04.

It would be really nice to see some archivists talking about archives to
historians instead of just having historians talk about archives.

Danna Bell-Russel
in a posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List

http://ecphrasis.port5.com/index.html

A weblog written by Eli Naeher, archival assistant at the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society (North Carolina). Mostly a Library Weblog but some archival stuff.

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I dream of seeing a one volume, general discussion of archives written for the general public in the chain and independent bookstores. Every once and a while we come close, but with Martha Cooley’s novel, The Archivist, we find the wrong portrayal and with a dust cover with a stack of books we get more confused; with Miles Harvey’s The Island of Lost Maps, the sense of archives is a bit lost in the musings about collecting and thievery; and in Nicholson Baker’s Double Fold, archivists are invisible and there are too many conspiracies anyway. Matthew Battles, Library: An Unquiet History (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), with an attractive picture of library stacks, may be a good prototype for the kind of volume archivists need.

http://hopper.sis.pitt.edu/drcox/Battles.htm

These are the first words of a review of Battles' new book (see also htp://log.netbib.de) by Richard J. Cox (Main page).

The signatory page of the Berlin Declaration has added this statement:
Governments, universities, research institutions, funding agencies, foundations, libraries, museums, archives, learned societies and professional associations who share the vision expressed in the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities are therefore invited to join the signatories that have already signed the Declaration.

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Via Open Access News
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Providing online access to a database of 200 trainers, auditors and consultants specialising in disability issues is the
latest step towards reducing access barriers in museums, archives and libraries by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries. The database designed and built by Resource in partnership with the nine Regional Agencies, is the first online service of its kind for the cultural sector.

The database is rich in information to help museums, archives and libraries to find support and advice on all disability issues [...]

The disability database is available on the Resource website at:
http://www.resource.gov.uk/action/learnacc/00access_03.asp

Via http://www.h-museum.net

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