Digital Humanities Café

Digital Curation Centre, Edinburgh.

Describing Digital Preservation: As Easy as a Walk in the Park/ August 31st, 2011 by Bill LeFurgy.
A guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP.

"The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations."

A Planets White Paper dated July 2010.

5 - 7 December 2011 at the Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol, UK

Event held at UNC on January 6, 2012.

National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.

"an advocate and catalyst for digital preservation, enabling our members to deliver resilient long-term access to content and services, and helping them derive enduring value from digital collections."

European Commission: "The challenge addresses the need for flexible and efficient access to information and knowledge, for educational, training and cultural purposes." Comprised of Te-Learn and Digitcult.

Building on ERPANET, "fosters collaboration and synergies between many existing national initiatives across the European Research Area."

On The Signal (LC blog): guest post by Bradley Daigle, Director of Digital Curation Services and Digital Strategist for Special Collections, University of Virginia; Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland; and Christopher (Cal) Lee, Associate Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Funded for 4 years and ended in 2010. Co-funded by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Programme to address core digital preservation challenges. Continued work done by the Open Planets Foundation.

Leeds University

"The Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET) and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) have established this Open Archives ePrint service in conjunction with DAEDALUS to make international digital curation and preservation research outputs visible, accessible and usable over time."