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2007/05/25: one small step towards economic extensibility

via Digital Koans: The Digital Library Federation and OCLC have released their Registry of Digital Masters Working Group’s Registry of Digital Masters Record Creation Guidelines.

This is cool. The registry means that (potentially) libraries and cultural heritage institutions can save time/effort/money in terms of managing digital objects for long term preservation. One thing everybody at DigCCurr agreed on: we need to figure out the economic models for sustaining digital preservation projects. Creating tools to avoid duplicating effort is a step in the right direction. No comments from the peanut gallery about OCLC and monopolies or the use of MARC format please.

Labels: digital preservation, economic models, registries

posted by Laura @ 12:21 PM