A project of the International institute of archival science of Trieste and Maribor

" ..... These awards ..... are intended to recognize people or organizations in the United States who are innovative, creative, and making a difference in the archival profession. Picking from a group of highly-qualified nominees, the judges selected:
Lisa Cohen, the Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives:
http://www.pnwlesbianarchives.org/
The Council of State Archivists:
http://www.statearchivists.org/
Brenda Gunn, The University of Texas at Austin:
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/
Mark Matienzo, New York Public Library:
http://labs.nypl.org/ ....."
Why is this not possible in Germany ?
Link: http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=312

"Tens of millions of dollars, pounds, and euros are invested each year by government agencies and private foundations to develop and support digital resources in the not-for-profit sector. As budgets tighten, will these digital resources be able to survive and thrive?
This question is at the heart of the Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability project, a multi-year, international exploration of the strategies being used to support digital initiatives over the long term. Twelve detailed case studies present the steps project leaders have taken to achieve this, with special attention paid to their strategies for cost management and revenue generation. These studies include financial data, and explore the decision-making process that project leaders undertake when experimenting with different strategies to find the best fit for their organization....."
Link

Final Report
Sustaining Digital Resources: An On-the-Ground View of Projects Today (PDF)
Nancy L. Maron, K. Kirby Smith, Matthew Loy
Foreword by Kevin Guthrie and Laura Brown

Case Studies
DigiZeitschriften: Library Partnership and a Subscription Model for a Journal Database (PDF)
Göttingen State and University Library, University of Göttingen

http://medievalsoldier.org/

With pilot project database.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-07-13/Copyright_threat

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5832086/

Legal comments:
http://lawclanger.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-not-often-that-copyright-cases-get.html

http://www.technollama.co.uk/national-portrait-gallery-copyright-row

http://www.francisdavey.co.uk/2009/07/national-portrait-gallery-photographs.html

" ....An exhaustive, three-year search for some tapes that contained the original footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk has concluded that they were probably destroyed during a period when NASA was erasing old magnetic tapes and reusing them to record satellite data.
But, as NPR first reported back in 2006, the tapes were missing — no one had any idea where they were stored. That report helped trigger a massive search by NASA.
"We had hundreds and hundreds of leads coming to us during this period," says Lebar. "Every one of them was investigated."
Lebar and others spent hours and hours in a vast government storage facility known as the Washington National Records Center, a place that Lebar compares to the giant warehouse at the end of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The search team combed through "racks of documents, tapes, all kinds of things from NASA and other agencies," says Nafzger.
The search wasn't limited to that one place — the searchers went everywhere from storage businesses to private homes. They pored over logbooks, memos and all kinds of 40-year-old handwritten records.
"We went through old file cabinets that would have little record cards and give you an idea if a shipment went in with the name Apollo on it, and did it have 'Apollo' or 'tape'?" Nafzger says. Or did it have anything on there that could be a tape? So it went to the point of being able to look at anything Apollo-related or tape-related that wasn't distinctly not a possibility."
They returned again and again to that vast government warehouse. But then they discovered something disturbing.
Over the years, NASA had removed massive numbers of magnetic tapes from the shelves. In the early 1980s alone, tens of thousands of boxes were withdrawn...."
Link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106637066&sc=fb&cc=fp

http://euobserver.com/9/28438

"In my view, growing internet piracy is a vote of no-confidence in existing business models and legal solutions. It should be a wake-up call for policy-makers," said Ms Reding on Thursday