2000 Preservation: An International Conference on the Preservation and Long Term Accessibility of Digital Materials

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	2000 Preservation: An International Conference on the Preservation and Long Term Accessibility of Digital Materials Over 150 people from Australia, Europe, and North America convened in York, England, December 6-8, 2000, for an international conference on digital preservation. Sponsored by The Cedars Project (JISC funded), RLG, and OCLC in association with the UK Office for Library Networking, the conference provided a venue to share, disseminate, and discuss current issues concerning the preservation of digital materials. In conjunction with the conference, a one-day workshop, Information Infrastructures for Digital Preservation, preceded the conference to focus on the necessary information infrastructures for preserving digital materials over the long term. Preservation 2000 A program of fifteen speakers greeted the more than 150 participants of the conference, which was organized into five sessions: Models for distributed digital archives; perspectives of managing national digital collections; practicalities of digital preservation; authenticity and authentication for digital preservation; and "making strides: working together" (collaborative efforts in digital preservation). Information Infrastructures Eight speakers from Austria, Australia, France, Germany, the UK, and the US presented information on their current work in digital preservation metadata to more than 75 participants. This intensive workshop was the first of its kind to focus almost exclusively on digital preservation metadata, e.g., metadata that may be used to store technical information that supports preservation decisions and action; to document preservation action taken (migration, emulation, etc.); to record effects of preservation strategies; to ensure the authenticity of digital resources over time; or to note information about collection management and management of rights. Many of the presentations discussed ongoing initiatives and projects. Because of the rapidly changing and developing nature of metadata for digital preservation, a suggestion to facilitate international comment and questions between speakers and interested parties was made during the workshop. This correspondence function has been added and is available for each of the Information Infrastructures presentations. 6 December 2000: Information Infrastructures for Digital Preservation Welcome and aims of the day —Robin Dale, Research Libraries Group "OCLC/RLG Working Group on Metadata for Digital Preservation" —Brian Lavoie, OCLC International Reaction Panel and Discussion —Stephen Chapman, Preservation Librarian for Digital Initiatives, Harvard University —Kelly Russell, Project Manager, The Cedars Project —Colin Webb, Director, Preservation Services, The National Library of Australia —Catherine Lupovici, The NEDLIB Project, Bibliothèque Nationale de France "The CARMEN Project" —Inka Tappenbeck, State and University Library of Göttingen "Project Prism: Preservation Metadata Research" —Oya Y. Rieger, Cornell University "Automated Metadata Capturing and Generation: The METAe Project" —Günter Mühlberger, University of Innsbruck "Assigning Permanence Levels to NLM's Electronic Publications" —Margaret Byrnes, National Library of Medicine 7 December 2000: Models for Distributed Digital Archives Conference opening and welcome —Clare Jenkins, Cedars Project Director, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Keynote Address —Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive, The British Library "The Cedars Project Experience" —Kelly Russell, Cedars Project Manager, Consortium of University Research Libraries "The LOCKSS Project" —Vicky Reich, Stanford University Library, and David Rosenthal, Sun Microsystems Perspectives of Managing National Digital Collections —Moderator: Neil Smith, The British Library "Digital Preservation at the British Library" —Helen Shenton, The British Library "The NEDLIB Project" —Lex Sijtsma, Koninklijke Bibliotheek "The National Library of Australia Experience" —Colin Webb, NLA 8 December 2000 Practicalities of Digital Preservation Moderator: Chris Rusbridge, Director, Information Services, University of Glasgow "A Workbook for the Preservation Management of Digital Materials" —Margaret Jones, The Arts and Humanities Data Service "The InterPARES Project" —Michele Cloonan and Shelby Sanett, University of California, Los Angeles "Intellectual Property Rights for Digital Preservation" —Ellis Weinberger, Cedars Project, Cambridge University Library Authenticity and Authentication for Digital Preservation Moderator: Peter Graham, Syracuse University "Authenticity, Preservation and Access in Digital Collections" —Nancy Brodie, National Library of Canada "I'm Me and You're You But Is That That?" —Kevin Ashley, University of London Computing Centre "The Federal Depository Library Program Electronic Collection: Preserving the Tradition of Access to US Government Information" —George Barnum, US Government Printing Office Making Strides: Working Together —Moderator: Nancy Elkington, Research Libraries Group "International Collaboration in Digital Preservation Metadata" —Robin Dale, Research Libraries Group "The JISC Digital Preservation Focus" —Neil Beagrie, DNER, Joint Information Systems Committee Closing Address —Jim Michalko, President, Research Libraries Group