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Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access Through Networked Services) has released the first of four filmed and written studies to show how national libraries and archives in Europe are using Planets tools to preserve large and valuable digital collections. This five minute film documents the challenges the British Library has faced with preserving the 80TB of images and its use of Planets preservation planning tool, Plato, to support the decisions it has taken.

You may now read 5 more BP in Italian: - Considerazioni sulla conservazione dei blog - Sistemi d’identificazione permanente nel settore della Pubblica Amministrazione - Il modello dati di PrestoSpace - Gli Identificatori Persistenti per i Beni Culturali - Interoperabilita: Un concetto chiave su larga scala per biblioteche digitali durature.

DPE are pleased to announce the release of video recordings taken at the DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor Joint Training Event: Starting out: Preserving Digital Objects - Principles and Practice 13-17 October 2008. DPE are committed to making digital preservation materials available to the widest possible audience and to breaking down barriers to access. The release of this new resource marks an important step reaching this goal.

Daniele Metilli translated the DPE Briefing paper "LOCKSS: Re-establishing Librarians as custodians of journal content" into Italian.

DigitalPreservationEurope are pleased to announce the addition of Google translate to the DPE website making our website available in thirty four languages and more accessible both within Europe and around the world. DigitalPreservationEurope is committed to make the materials it has produced accessible to the widest possible audience and has already made a large amount of material available in translation. This has been made possible through our close collaboration with the DigitalPreservationEurope Associate Partner community.

Bogdan Trifunovic a DPE exchange participant from Čačak, Serbia, has published the article he wrote while on exchange to the National Library of the Czech Republic. Bogdan's exchange took a particular focus on the WebArchiv project underway at the National Library of the Czech Republic, and his article provides a brief comparative analysis of five web archiving projects (PANDORA, MINERVA, EuropeanArchive, WebArchiv, UK WAC).

The Foundation Rinascimento Digitale, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, the Library of Congress and the PREMIS Editorial Committee are delighted to announce the workshop on PREMIS Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies, taking place in Rome, Italy, on 5 - 6 February 2009. Read the Flyer or

Alex Mason (Durham University, UK) was able to solve all the provided challenges showing great skills in data archealogy. The proposed digital preservation solutions were outstanding and therefore he was awarded the first prize of this digital preservation challenge.

New report from Arian Rajh (Croatia) is available. It describes benefits of his exchange stay in Portugal.

It is very important that the ICT Strategies and Policies of India and other countries must not only be suitable but should also believe in a “holistic application and implementation”. The use of ICT has a social aspect as well. India being a Welfare State, the social structure cannot be given a complete go bye. This makes the analysis of ground reality of India inevitable keeping in mind the socio-economic, political and social conditions prevailing in India. The biggest problem with Indian ICT strategies and policies is that “localisation” and “Indianisation” are missing. We cannot blindly adopt and superimpose foreign models and ideas. They are bound to be a big flop show if we ignore the grass-root problems existing in India. Emphasis must be laid down upon solving the local problems by using local solutions.

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DPE is delighted to announce that 3 Briefing paper have been translated into Croatian by Hrvoje Stančic and his colleagues.

DPE are delighted to announce that the following papers have been translated into French by the leading Digital Preservation expert Jean-Pierre Teil.

The European Quarterly Preservation Digest provides a state of the art view of current European activities in the field of digital preservation. Updates and overviews from DPE, Planets, CASPAR, SHAMAN, LiWA and DRAMBORA are included.

Increasing computing capabilities for the production of Earth system model data has created new challenges for its long-term archiving and preservation. Not all the data produced on the system can be stored in the long-term archive. A new archive concept developed by the ICSU (International Council for Science) World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) separates data storage, including an expiration date at the scientific project level, and the documented long-term archive. This new system produces a completely documented, quality checked long-term archive with a searchable data catalogue.

The audiovisual (AV) record of the 20th century is at risk, and digitisation has been a solution, which has created a new problem: preservation of digital AV content. These files have requirements (size; specific formats) that are not adequately addressed by current technology. Best practice can be recommended, but three major changes are needed. Read the briefing paper to find out more.

Determining the value of a work of art or historical document can be difficult. Projecting that value into the future can be even more daunting. Ascertaining the current and future value of science work is just as challenging. This paper examines how the records management function of appraisal can help determine the long-term value of science records.

Internet resources tend to have a short life and this poses problems for citation, retrieval and preservation. This briefing paper looks into the issues surrounding persistent digital object identification for cultural and scientific resources.

We are pleased to announce the release of a report on the round table "Digital preservation in Italy: experiences face to face". Several of the main Italian institutions from ALM, e-health, e-government, research institutions, ICT and media attended the round table to ascertain the state of art of digital preservation in different sectors in Italy and identify common points of interest, obstacles, emerging topics and new trends. The goal of the event was to identify possible areas of cooperation, stimulate synergies and coordination mechanisms around digital preservation at national level that could also be linked in the DPE international framework.