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July 02, 2008
DigiCULT
DigiCULT is short for Digital Culture. DigiCULT's mission is to monitor and assess the "existing and emerging technologies that provide opportunities to optimise the development, access to, and preservation of Europe's rich cultural and scientific heritage, within the emerging digital cultural economy."
Very like the early articles (in which I referred to Witten and Bainbridge) digital libraries “are about new ways of dealing with knowledge: preserving, collecting, organizing, propagating, and accessing it—not about deconstructing existing institutions and putting them inside an electronic box.” And DigiCULT's work is to ensure that this happens.
To this end, DigiCULT has produced seven Thematic Issues that have called together experts on a "selected topic" to "provide additional information and opinions in the form of invited articles, interviews, and case studies" on issues of importance to Digital Heritage, Digital Preservation, archives and so forth. These reports are very interesting and valuable and I will continue to read and comment on these in the upcoming weeks. I started a while ago with the issue of Integrity and Authenticity (which is by no means settled) which raises no end of questions on the subject of digital preservation.
For those of you interested in a broader consideration of digital archives, digital libraries, digital preservation, etc, these works at DigiCULT are certainly worth taking a look at.
Posted by twh7 at July 2, 2008 08:16 PM
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