Fred Byer's presentation titled "The Care, Handling, and Longevity of Optical Media: Current Research at NIST" can be found at this URL: <URL:http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/>. Also at this URL is a link to the recently published guide "Care and Handling Guide for the Preservation of CDs and DVDs", produced by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Carl Fleischhauer's talk on The Library of Congress Audio-Visual Prototyping Project is accessible in the form of a PowerPoint slide show at this URL: <URL:http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/avprot/AIC2003.ppt>. Carl will leave it there for interested readers for eight or ten weeks. Anyone is welcome to open or download it, but since it will not remain there permanently, Carl asks that people not place links on open web pages.� He also reports that a talk he gave earlier this year at the National Archives conference on digital vs. analog technology in preservation reformatting may be accessed at: <URL:http://www.archives.gov/preservation/ ������� conferences/papers_2003/fleischauer.html>.
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And finally, the presentation given by Marlan Green and Jamye Jamison titled "Digital Conservation Treatment Documentation: A Current Assessment" can be viewed from the following URL, as can background information about their recent survey on the topic: <URL:http://www.marlangreen.net/pcit/>
Hannah Frost Electronic Media Group Program Chair
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