The Electronic Records Policy Working Group is inviting interested persons to provide their written views on issues relating to implementing section 207(e)(1)(A) of the E-Government Act of 2002. That section calls for ``the adoption by agencies of policies and procedures to ensure that chapters 21, 25, 27, 29, and 31 of title 44, United States Code, are applied effectively and comprehensively to Government information on the Internet and to other electronic records.''
The Working Group is seeking feedback on the following topics in their meetings and this notice.
Hewlett-Packard is getting further involved in digital archives, as it announced yesterday it would be working with Time Magazine to create their archives. Last month, HP announced a collaboration with Getty to digitize their film archive.
The Time archive project is to digitize the more than 4000 issues published in the magazine's 70+ year history. HP will scan each page of each issue. I wonder if the archive will be simply the scanned surogates of the magazine, or will also include some OCR to provide a searchable, full-text database. I suppose I'll find out in May, when the project is scheduled to launch.
| Categorized in: Library: Corporate , Process: Archiving , Process: DigitizationSomeone arrived at the site looking for information about DSpace. Here some is.
DSpace is two very interesting and useful things - first, it is a way for faculty, staff, and students at MIT to leverage the intellectual property produced by the school to best serve the needs of the school. Secondly, it is an open-source software tool developed by MIT that will allow other universities to do the same.
You'll probably want to read more about DSpace yourself.
| Categorized in: Form: Application , Library: Academic , Library: Digital/Web , Process: Archiving , Process: Digitization , Process: Preservation , Process: Records Management , Topic: Intellectual Property , Topic: Knowledge ManagementPRONOM is a resource for anyone requiring impartial and definitive technical information about the file formats used to store electronic records, and the software products that are required to create, render, or migrate these formats.
PRONOM is developed and maintained by the UK's National Archives' Digital Preservation Department. It seems to be a very good resource for, among other things, those interested in electronic records management, archives, and digitial preservation.
The system currently holds details of c. 550 file formats, 250 software products, and 100 vendors, and records are being added on a regular basis (link via Peter Scott).
| Categorized in: Form: Best Practice , Library: Digital/Web , Process: Archiving , Process: Digitization , Process: Records Management