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Posted October 1, 2004.
LC Announces Eight Digital Preservation Partners
The Library of Congress has awarded more than $14.9 million in matching funds to eight institutions and their team partners to collect and preserve digital materials of significant cultural value. The awards are part of a $100-million appropriation made to the Library of Congress in 2000 for a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
“These formal partnerships mark the beginning of a new phase of this program,” said LC Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives Laura E. Campbell, “to raise awareness of the need for digital preservation and to take steps to capture and preserve at-risk digital content that is vital to our nation’s history.”
The lead institutions and their areas of collection interest:
- A team led by the California Digital Library will collect web-based local, state, and federal government materials.
- The University of California at Santa Barbara team will collect born-digital cartographic materials.
- The Educational Broadcasting Corporation group will preserve public-television programs.
- The Emory University team will preserve electronic materials dealing with Southern culture and history.
- The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana group will develop criteria to determine which materials are worth preserving.
- The University of Maryland at College Park team will collect online materials related to the “dot-com” era from 1994 to 2001.
- The University of Michigan group will preserve opinion polls, voting records, surveys on family growth and income, and sociological studies.
- The North Carolina State University team will collect geospatial data resources created by state and local governments.
A full list of participating institutions is available on the Library of Congress website.
Posted October 1, 2004.
