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RLG and Preservation

Preserving Digital Information: Final Report and Recommendations

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At the end of 1994 the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) and RLG created a Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information charged with investigating and recommending means to ensure "continued access indefinitely into the future of records stored in digital electronic form." In May 1996, the 21-member task force, co-chaired by Donald Waters and John Garrett, completed their final report. Both RLG and CPA have made this widely available. (In 1997, CPA merged with the Council on Library Resources to become CLIR—the Council on Library and Information Resources.)

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RLG immediately began work on several of the task force's nine recommendations, in initiatives such as Arches and an experimental collaborative digital collection.

Find more at the digital preservation initiative home page.

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Last updated August 2002

This site was frozen in 2004 and is now out of date. Please go to RLG's current Web site for all information. Questions? Contact us.

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