[dcc-associates] Digital Preservation Award 2010: the search for a winner

[William Kilbride]

Dear All,

As you may know, the Digital Preservation Coalition offers an biannual prize to 
the project, scholar  or service that, in the eyes of a panel of judges, has 
made the most significant contribution to ensuring our digital memory is 
available tomorrow.

Large and small teams are invited to apply as are projects or scholars or 
services from around the world.

We launched the search for a winner of the Digital Preservation Award 2010 at 
the end of May and there's now only one month left to file nomination papers.  
The deadline is 1200 on Friday 30th July.  Details are online at 
http://www.dpconline.org/advocacy/2010-digital-preservation-award.html

Please do forward this announcement to relevant lists or to colleagues that you 
think ought to be nominated.

All best wishes,

William

--
Dr William Kilbride FSA
Executive Director
Digital Preservation Coalition

44 (0)141 330 4522
http://www.dpconline.org/
will...@dpconline.org

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[dcc-associates] Symposium on XML for the Long Term

[Ann Wrightson]

This event may well be of interest to readers of this list:

International Symposium on XML for the Long Haul: Issues in the Long-term
Preservation of XML

Read about the symposium at: http://www.balisage.net/longhaul/index.html
See the detailed program at: http://www.balisage.net/longhaul/LHProgram.html

People who create, store, query, or serve XML expect it to live a very
long time. XML is platform- and application-independent, and by and large
it is platforms and applications that vanish. If by encoding information
in XML we have freed it from dependency on specific platforms or
applications, have we succeeded in ensuring that the XML can live long
into the future? Or is there more to it than using XML? How can we best
ensure that our data, all our data, and its semantics survive this year,
next year, ten years? into the next millennium?

Topics in this one-day symposium will include:

  - Markup of social science data
  - Sustainability of linguistic resources
  - Case studies from PubMed Central and Portico, two very large
journal article archives
  - Scholarly editions in a digital world
  - Implications of XML semantics for archive standards
  - Metadata for product data

The International Symposium on XML for the Long Haul will be immediately
followed by Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010