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- From: Yves Epelboin <Yves.Epelboin@lmcp.jussieu.fr>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:23:04 GMT
I have attended to the ICSTI Digital Preservation Workshop together with Howard Thursday and Friday last week. I was there from Thursday afternoon until the end. I am sure Howard will write a full report but I think that presenting my opinion could be of interest. Regards. Yves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICSTI Digital Preservation Workshop Paris February 14-15th 2002 K.Hunter presented the point of view of STM members. Editors believe they are responsible for their archives towards authors and the scientific community. They agree about standards and agree about the Yale project (long term archives independent from formats, neither a mirror or a backup). Editors disagree about the idea to make public their archives after a six months delay. They are afraid about possible confusion between storage of archives and their use. Then L. Carpenter (UKOLN, UK) presented the recent development in metadata. She explained the difference between OAI (Open Archive Initiative) which wants to establish standards for interoperability between various archives formats and OAIS (Open Archival Information System) which is interested in the problem of establishing long term archives. Consult http://www.openarchives.org and http://www.oaforum.org J. Steenbakkers from the National Library, NL, presented their projects. They work together with UK and IBM Research. http://www.kb.nl/dea/. The problem of long term archives is not solved. N. Paskin from the DOI foundation explained what a Digital Object Identifier is and what is its use: unique access to information, presentation, link to storage location... B. Heterick from JSTOR presented the achievements of this organization in putting on the Web a number of scientific journals. JSTOR not only stores the contents but also the presentation (including adds!) by scanning pages from journals. 1300 libraries, 150 editors have now joined the organization which is now self supporting http://www.jstor.org A. Abid from UNESCO presented the "¨Preserving our Culturage Heritage" program to show that the questions are the same. The next day, Barry Mahon (chair ICSU) made a review of the first day. The question was "How do we cooperate with the future?". The questions are the same as before: + standards and metadata + access for less developed countries + Economical model for preservation (costs and who pays for?) + obsolescence of techniques + intellectual property and copyrights + implication of governments and private industry Remarks from the floor are also always the same: some want to preserve anything, others see this as unrealistic due to technical and financial constraints. N. Beagrie from JISC, UK, (Join Information System Committee) presented a review on different archives and projects: JISC: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/digitalarchives.html CEDRS: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedrs for distributed archives Mellen: http://www.dglib.org/preserve/ejp.htm (common project with Elsevier and Yale). Camileon: http://www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON (hardware emulation) http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/ for metadata preservation http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attribs/wg.html for attributes for archives. In the future one of the main problems is the amount of data, research of information and management. G. Hodge from ICSTI animated a discussion about standardization activities emphasizing about the fact that standardization must be used from the beginning of the life cycle of archives.... D. Woodyard from BL, UK, spoke of preservation: for meta data: http://www.nla.gov.au/pade/topics/32.html , OAIS: http:://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/ref_model.html S. Morris from ALPSP (Association of Learned Professional Societies Publishers) spoke of the different problems around creating, maintaining and preserving archives. One of the main problems is that librarians are responsible for classifying the documents, the editors producing documents without any responsibility about how data are classified. B. Smith from European Commission spoke of the "Cultural Heritage program". In the afternoon B. Mahon made a review of morning presentations and started an open discussion about what to do. The feeling was that the community should be more involved in the various committees which establish standards and that no new should be created! ICSU members and bodies should be more involved to advocate for the problem of archives. I was personally rather disappointed by this seminar which presented nothing really new. The problems are still the same and no real action is going on. Committees discuss a lot but my opinion is nowadays standards are no more established by committees but by the market. I was astonished to see that companies such as Oracle or Ascential which are already in the business were not participating. It seems to me that most represent ants are too much librarians and not enough technical people. For instance, it is quite easy to declare as the majority did that everything should be preserved, without being interested neither in the feasibility nor in the economical problems. It was OK for me to participate since I am living in Paris but IUCr should be grateful to Howard who came especially from Geneva. Hopefully the weather was great this week-end and I hope he enjoyed his days in Paris! -- Prof. Yves Epelboin, Laboratoire de Minéralogie-Cristallographie Université P.M. Curie, case 115, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France Phone: +33 (0)1 4427 5211 Fax: +33 (0)1 4427 3785 http://www.lmcp.jussieu.fr/~epelboin ----- Warning: all documents are authentified using a certificate which may appear as an attached document if your mailer is unable to use it!
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