![In many cases, digital materials are considered more fragile than physical ones. The files themselves can be easily destroyed or stored in a format than becomes obsolete.](images/digital_header.jpg)
Digital Preservation Resources
Libraries
- British Library: Digital Preservation
- Carnegie Mellon University: The Universal Library
- Cornell University: Digital Preservation Research and Implementation
- Digital Curation Centre (University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, UKOLN, Central Laboratory of the Research Councils)
- Harvard: Library Preservation at Harvard
- Koninklijke bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)
- McGill University: Digital Collections Program
- National Agricultural Library (NAL): Preservation Program
- National Library of Australia: Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI)
- National Library of Medicine Preservation Program
- Stanford University: Conservation OnLine (CoOL)
- University of Arizona: Clearinghouse of Image Databases and the IMAGELIB listserv archives
- University of California, Berkeley: Preservation Resources
Foundations
Organizations
- Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)
- Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
- Digital Library Federation
- Digital Library Foundation (DLF): Digital Preservation
- Digital Library Foundation: Forums
- Digital Library Foundation Listservs
- Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
- DSpace Federation (Columbia, Cornell, MIT, OSU, Universities of Rochester, Toronto, Washington)
- EFF: Intellectual Property, Digital Rights Management Systems, Copy Protection Schemes
- Electronic Research and Access Preservation Network (Erpanet) - consortium funded by European Commission
- eLib: The Electronic Library Programme
- European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL)
- European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA)
- Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute (HATII)
- IDRM: Internet Digital Rights Management
- IFLA: Digital Libraries - Resources and Projects
- IETF Page of Intellectual Property Rights Notices
- Institute of Museum and Library Services
- International Internet Preservation Consortium
- Joint Information System Committee (JISC)
- JISC: Digital-Preservation Announcement and Information List: archives
- Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG)
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): Preservation
- National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH)
- National Recording Preservation Board
- NIST: Digital Preservation Research
- OCLC: Digital & Preservation Resources
- Research Library Group (RLG): Long-Term Retention of Digital Materials
- United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN)
- Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
- World Wide Web Consortium
Web Journals
- Ariadne (UKOLN)
- Current Cites (University of California, Berkeley)
- Diginews (RLG) restricted to members
- Digital and Preservation Dispatch (OCLC) restricted to members
- D-Lib Magazine
- Dutch National Library News
- IFLA Journal
- Journal of Digital Information (British Computer Society, Oxford Press)
Institutional Initiatives
Digital Repositories
- Archives Hub - gateway to repositories in the United Kingdom
- Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
- Austrian Academy of Sciences: Phonogrammarchiv: Austrian Research Sound Archive
- Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
- California Digital Library
- Carnegie Mellon University: DIVA
- DLF /CLIR: A Survey of Digital Aggregation Services
- The Domesday Project
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
- Electronic Research Library of Denmark (Internet Archive)
- Goettingen Digitiserungs-Zentrum (Goettingen Digitization Center)
- JISC: Arts and Humanities Data Service
- National Film Board of Canada (NFB): Mediatheque
- National Library of Australia: PANDORA - Australia's Web Archive
- National Library of Australia: ScreenSound (National Screen and Sound Archive)
- National Library of the Netherlands: e-Depot
- National Science Foundation: Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2
- Smithsonian Institution - Digital Library
- Swedish Royal Library: Longtime Preservation of Electronic Documents (Internet Archive)
- Way Back Machine: Internet Archive
- Yale University: Yale Electronic Archive
Document Delivery
- British Library and Elsevier
- British Library: Document Supply Centre
- Die Deutsche Bibliothek and Springer-Verlag: Long-term Preservation of Electronic Publications
- Journal Storage: the scholarly journal archive (JSTOR)
- National Science Digital Library
- OCLC: Olive (Active Paper Archive)
- Stanford University: Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe (LOCKSS)
Reformatting, Digitization
- Archive Images: Document Management and Document Imaging Whitepapers
- Cornell University: Digital Imaging and Preservation Policy Research
- Harvard: Preservation and Imaging Department
- Image Engineering
- Nebraska State Historical Society: Digital Imaging Laboratory
- North Carolina State University: Digital Library Initiatives
- OCLC: Digital Preservation
- Octavo
- Stanford University: Media Preservation Unit
- University of Utah: Digital Technologies
- University of Virginia: Digital Initiatives
Technology Research and Development
- Cornell University: Project Prism
- Cornell University Library: Digital Preservation-- Affiliations and Related Cornell Library Activities
- Digitale Duurzaamheid (Netherlands): Digital Preservation Testbed (bibliography)
- IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation: Strategic Plan 2004-2005
- InterPARES Project: International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek: Digital Preservation, Technology & Policy (papers from workshop, December 13, 2002)
- University of California, Berkeley: Digital Library SunSITE
- University of Michigan: Camileon
- University of Pennsylvania: Penn Database Research Group
- University of Virginia: Digital Lab
- University of Virginia / Cornell: Fedora Digital Repository Project
Copyright and Intellectual Property
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act( PDF, )
- Additional Provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (PDF )
- Fair Use (PDF)
- International Copyright
- International Copyright Relations (PDF )
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- Copyright and Intellectual Property Current and Historical Information (from Association of Research Libraries)