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Appendix II - International strategies and resources
Australia
- Australia's Strategic Framework for the Information Economy 2004-2006
www.dcita.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/20457/New_SFIE_July_2004_final.pdf - Unlocking the Potential: Digital Content Industry Action Agenda (2005)
www.dcita.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/37356/06030055_REPORT.pdf - Imagine Australia: the role of creativity in the innovation economy.
www.dest.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/B1EF82EF-08D5-427E-B7E4-69D41C61D495/
8625/finalPMSEICReport_WEBversion.pdf - Australian Framework & Action Plan for Digital Heritage Collections (July 2007)
www.collectionscouncil.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=419 - Summit on Digital Collections - Report on Outcomes (Australia - August 2006).
www.collectionscouncil.com.au/summit+2006+-+digital+collections.aspx - Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)
www.apsr.edu.au/ - PADI - Preserving Access to Digital Information
www.nla.gov.au/padi/ - Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training: Accessibility Framework
http://backingaus.innovation.gov.au/2004/research/qual_pub_res.htm - The Learning Federation (Australia and New Zealand)
www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/tlf2/ - PANDORA - Australia's Web Archive
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/apps/PandasDelivery/WebObjects/PandasDelivery.woa - Designing and Implementing Record Keeping Systems (DIRKS)
www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/dirks/summary.html - An Approach to the Preservation of Digital Records
www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/er/digital_preservation/summary.html - Digital Recordkeeping: Guidelines for Creating, Managing and Preserving Digital Records
www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/er/guidelines.html - Archiving web resources: A policy for keeping records of web-based activity in the Commonwealth Government
www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/er/web_records/intro.html - The Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative (ADRI)
www.adri.gov.au/content.asp?cID=14 - OAK Law Project - Legal framework for e-research
www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/ - Australian Department of Education, Science and Training Systematic Infrastructure Initiative
www.dest.gov.au/sectors/research_sector/programmes_funding/general_funding/
research_infrastructure/systemic_infrastructure_initiative.htm
China
- National Library of China
www.nlc.gov.cn/old/old/english.htm - The National Science and Technology Library: A Chinese Model of Collaboration (2004)
www.istl.org/05-summer/article4.html - China Web InfoMall (China Web archiving project)
www.infomall.cn/index-eng.htm - China National Knowledge Infrastructure
www.global.cnki.net/grid20/index.htm - Ministry of the Information Industry (MII)
http://english.gov.cn/2005-10/02/content_74175.htm - Ministry of Science and Technology
www.most.gov.cn/eng/ - A New Data Storage and Service Model of China Web InfoMall
www.iwaw.net/04/Hongfei.pdf - The Palace Museum - Cultural digitization and preservation
www.dpm.org.cn/English/default.asp
Denmark
- Danish State Archives: Electronic Records - strategies and requirements
www.sa.dk/sa/omarkiverne/english/earchives.htm - Danish Royal Library: Digital Policies Framework
www.kb.dk/index-en.htm - Denmark in the Culture and Experience Economy
www.kum.dk/sw8166.asp
France
- Gallica
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
(available in French only) - Bibliothèque nationale de France
www.bnf.fr/ - La Bibliothèque numérique européenne
www.bnf.fr/pages/europeana/europeana.htm
(available in French only) - Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
www.ina.fr/
(available in French only) - Ithèque
www.itheque.net/en/index.php - Centre national de la recherche scientifique
www.cnrs.fr/ - L'Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique
www.inist.fr/
Germany
- The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
www.dfg.de/en/- Digital Information Initiatives
www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/scientific_instrumentation_and
_infrastructure/scientific_library_services_and_information_systems/
digital_information/index.html - Digitization
www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/scientific_instrumentation_and
_infrastructure/scientific_library_services_and_information_systems/
digital_information/digitisation/index.html - Open Access
www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/scientific_instrumentation_and
_infrastructure/scientific_library_services_and_information_systems/
digital_information/open_access/index.html
- Digital Information Initiatives
- NESTOR - Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources
www.langzeitarchivierung.de/index.php?newlang=eng - iD2010 - Information Society Germany 2010 / Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
www.bmwi.de/English/Navigation/Service/publications,did=192754.html
Korea
- Korea's Knowledge Information Resource Management Project
https://www.kado.or.kr/koil/default.asp
New Zealand
- New Zealand: The Digital Strategy
www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/ - The Digital Strategy: Creating our Digital Future (Report)
www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/upload/Documents/MED11706_Digital
%20Strategy.pdf - Access Issues - Geospatial Content (New Zealand Digital Content Strategy Working Paper 1)
www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/upload/Main%20Sections/Content/
Working%20Papers/Access%20Issues_Geospatial_Content.pdf - Strategy and Intellectual Property - Scoping the Legal Issues (NZ Digital Content Strategy Working Paper 2)
www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/upload/Main%20Sections/Content/
Working%20Papers/Strategy_and_Intellectual_Property.pdf - Valuing Digital Content: Economic Perspectives (NZ Digital Content Strategy Working Paper 3)
www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/upload/Main%20Sections/Content/
Working%20Papers/Valuing_Digital_Content.pdf - A Digital Strategy for the National Library of New Zealand (December 2003)
www.natlib.govt.nz/catalogues/library-documents/nlnz-digital-strategy-dec03 - Continuum - Create and Maintain (a whole-of-government approach to recordkeeping)
www.archives.govt.nz/continuum/
Netherlands
- National Archives of the Netherlands, Digital Longevity (Digitale Duurzaamheid)
www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/index.cfm?paginakeuze=286&categorie=6 - e-Depot of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_onderzoek/reports/3-preservation.pdf - Permanent Access to the Records of Science Strategic Action Programme 2006-2010
http://tfpa.kb.nl/Strategic%20Action%20Programme.pdf - Networked European Deposit Library - NEDLIB
http://nedlib.kb.nl/
Norway
- The Norwegian Digital Library - Easy Access to Information and Knowledge Sources
www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/120e-vanNuys.pdf - Kulturnett.no
www.kulturnett.no/ - The National Library of Norway and the Digital Challenge
www.splq.info/issues/vol35_1/07.htm
Sweden
- Kulturarw3- Long time preservation of electronic documents
www.kb.se/kw3/ENG/Default.aspx
United Kingdom
- Connecting the UK: The Digital Strategy (Prime Minister's Strategy Unit)
www.strategy.gov.uk/downloads/work_areas/digital_strategy/report/pdf/
digital_strategy.pdf - Mind the Gap: Assessing Digital Preservation Needs in the UK (2006)
www.dpconline.org/docs/reports/uknamindthegap.pdf - The United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking - UKOLN
www.ukoln.ac.uk/ - The British Library (2006): The British Library's Content Strategy - Meeting the Knowledge Needs of the Nation
www.bl.uk/contentstrategy - Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
www.dcc.ac.uk/ - Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
www.jisc.ac.uk/ - Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)
www.mla.gov.uk/webdav/harmonise?Page/@id=90 - Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
www.dpconline.org/graphics/ - UK National Archives
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ - British Library
www.bl.uk/ - Research Councils UK Access to Research Output
www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/outputs/access/default.htm - ESPIDA - Effective Strategic model for the Preservation and Disposal of Institutional Digital Assets
www.gla.ac.uk/espida/about.shtml - Investing in Value: a Perspective on Digital Preservation
www.dlib.org/dlib/april06/mckinney/04mckinney.html - Office of the Public Sector Information - Click-Use Licences
www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/ - Digital Preservation Strategy Framework for the British Library
www.bl.uk/about/collectioncare/hbookframework.html - DPC Handbook of Digital Preservation
www.dpconline.org/graphics/handbook/index.html - SHERPA - Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access
www.sherpa.ac.uk/ - AHDS - Arts and Humanities Data Services
http://ahds.ac.uk/ - Preservation Eprints Services
http://preserv.eprints.org/about.shtml - The National Archives UK - Electronic Records Management
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/electronicrecords/default.htm - PRONOM - The online registry of technical information.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/ - NDAD - National Digital Archive of Datasets
www.ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/ - CAMiLEON: Creative Archiving at Michigan & Leeds: Emulating the Old on the New
www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/about/aboutcam.html - CEDARS: curl exemplars in digital archives
www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/ - E-Infrastructure Strategy for Research: Final Report from the OSI Preservation and Curation Working Group
www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/OSI/preservation.pdf - Life Project - Life Cycle Information for E-Literature
www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/lifeproject/
United States
- National Digital Information and Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP)
www.digitalpreservation.gov/index.html - National Geospatial Data Archive
www.ngda.org/ - US GPO Access Services
www.gpoaccess.gov - National Archives - Electronic Records Archives
www.archives.gov/era/ - World Digital Library
www.loc.gov/today/pr/2005/05-250.html - Open Content Alliance
www.opencontentalliance.org/index.html - Internet Archive
www.archive.org/index.php - Project Gutenberg
www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page - Global Digital Format Registry
http://hul.harvard.edu/gdfr/ - LOCKSS Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe
www.lockss.org/lockss/Home - OAIS Reference Model (Blue Book)
http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf - Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities An RLG-OCLC Report
www.rlg.org/legacy/longterm/repositories.pdf - Audit Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories
www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20769 - Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification (TRAC): Criteria and Checklist (Centre for Research Libraries)
www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=13&l2=58&l3=162&l4=91 - CNI Coalition for Networked Information
www.cni.org/ - Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
www.clir.org/ - National Digital Preservation Initiatives: An Overview of Developments in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and of Related International Activity
www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub116/contents.html - National Science Foundation
www.nsf.gov/ - Cyberinfrastructure Education, Training and Mentoring Program
www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12782
Multinational organizations
European Union
- The European Library and the European Digital Library
www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html - European Union eContent Plus
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm - Minerva Europe
www.minervaeurope.org/ - Good Practices Handbook (Digitization)
www.minervaeurope.org/structure/workinggroups/goodpract/document/
bestpracticehandbook1_2.pdf - Planets - Digital Preservation Research and Technology
www.planets-project.eu/ - CASPAR - Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval
www.casparpreserves.eu/ - Dynamic Action Plan for the EU co-ordination of digitisation of cultural and scientific content
www.minervaeurope.org/publications/dap.htm - EU Commission on the Re-Use of Commission Information
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/policy/psi/index_en.htm - European Commission - Information Society - i2010
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/i2010/index_en.htm - The Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET)
www.erpanet.org - European Commission on Preservation and Access - GRIP Gateway for Resources and Information on Preservation and Access
www.knaw.nl/ecpa/grip/ - Preservation Towards Storage and Access: Standardized practices for audio-visual content in Europe
www.prestospace.org/index.en.html - BRICKS - Building Resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services
www.brickscommunity.org/prj - DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
www.delos.info/ - The DigiCult Report: Technological Landscapes for Tomorrow's Cultural Economy: Unlocking the Value of Cultural Heritage (2002)
www.digicult.info/PAGES/report.php - i2010 - First Annual Report on the European Information Society
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/i2010/docs/annual_report/
sec_2006_604_en.pdf - i2010 Website
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/i2010/index_en.htm - i2010 2007 Annual Report
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/i2010/docs/annual_report/
2007/comm_final_version_sg/com_2007_0146_en.pdf
OECD
- Next Generation Network Development for OECD Countries, OECD, 2005
www.oecd.org/dataoecd/58/11/34696726.pdf - Broadband Changes Everything, Michael Hennessy, for 2005 OECD Roundtable on Communications Convergence
www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/31/34982451.pdf - OECD Work On Digital Content
www.oecd.org/document/62/0,2340,en_21571361_35742275_32160190
_1_1_1_1,00.html - OECD Conference on the Future Digital Economy, 2006
www.oecd.org/site/0,2865,en_21571361_35742275_1_1_1_1_1,00.html - OECD Report on Digital Music
www.oecd.org/document/46/0,2340,en_21571361_35742275_34994926
_1_1_1_1,00.html - Digital Broadband Content: Scientific Publishing
www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/12/35393145.pdf - OECD Digital Content Background Reading
www.oecd.org/document/10/0,2340,en_21571361_35742275_35755658
_1_1_1_1,00.html - Digital Broadband Content: Public Sector Information and Content
www.oecd.org/dataoecd/10/22/36481524.pdf - Digital Broadband Content: Digital Content Strategies and Policies
www.oecd.org/dataoecd/54/36/36854975.pdf - OECD Broadband Statistics, 2005
www.oecd.org/document/39/0,2340,en_2649_34225_36459431
_1_1_1_1,00.html - OECD Telecommunications and Internet Policy - Broadband Statistics
www.oecd.org/document/39/0,2340,en_2649_34225_36459431
_1_1_1_1,00.html - The Implications of Convergent for Regulation of Electronic Communications
www.oecd.org/dataoecd/56/24/32983964.pdf - Digital Broadband Content: Public Sector Information and Content
www.oecd.org/dataoecd/10/22/36481524.pdf
#search=%22Public%20sector%20information%20and%20content%22
UNESCO
- UNESCO Memory of the World
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1538&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC
&URL_SECTION=201.html - IFPI:06 Digital Music Report
www.ifpi.org/site-content/library/digital-music-report-2006.pdf - World Report: Toward Knowledge Societies (UNESCO)
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29619&URL_DO=DO
_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html - UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13366&URL_DO=DO
_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
WSIS
- The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
www.itu.int/wsis/index.html
IFLA
- IFLA Report Networking for Digital Preservation: Current Practices in 15 National Libraries
www.ifla.org/VI/7/pub/IFLAPublication-No119.pdf
International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)
- International Internet Preservation Consortium
http://netpreserve.org/about/index.php
InterPARES Project
- InterPARES 1 Project
www.interpares.org/ip1/ip1_index.cfm - InterPARES 2 Project
www.interpares.org/ip2/ip2_index.cfm
Creative Commons
- Creative Commons Website
http://creativecommons.org/
