Decision Tree for Selection of Digital Materials for Long-term Retention

A Decision Tree for Selection of Digital Materials for Long-term Retention has been added to the Digital Preservation Coalition's website.

This is a valuable tool which will assist in defining a selection policy for the digital materials in your organisation. The structure of the tree is based on a series of questions which will help you evaluate your digital content according to key organisational issues such as Rights and Responsibilities, Technical infrastructure, Costs and Metadata.

It can be found at: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/handbook/dec-tree.html

Digital Library Symposium proceedings online

The University of Maryland Libraries' Digital Collections and Research announced its online publication of symposium proceedings from The Library in Bits and Bytes: A Digital Library Symposium, held September 29th, 2005 at the University of Maryland. The online publication contains remarks from session presenters, panelists, and poster presenters on how library practice has embraced and is challenged by digital library initiatives.

Symposium proceedings can be found at:
http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/symposium/epubs.html

The Digital Future of Moving Image Archives presentation available

The PowerPoint presentation from the aforementioned talk on The Digital Future of Moving Image Archives is now available at http://www.midwestmediaarchives.org/events.htm.