Year One Lessons Learned: Partnerships in the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program Beth Sandore Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Planning and Policy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign William G. LeFurgy Digital Initiatives Program Manager Library of Congress Patricia Cruse Director, Digital Preservation, California Digital Library University of California, Office of the President Martin Halbert Director for Library Systems Emory University Sarah M. Pritchard University Librarian University of California, Santa Barbara Steven Morris Head of Digital Library Initiative North Carolina State University David A. Kirsch Assistant Professor University of Maryland Myron P. Gutmann Director, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research University of Michigan In December 2000, Congress passed special legislation (Public Law 106-554) in recognition of the importance of preserving digital content for future generations, appropriating $100 million to the Library of Congress to lead this effort. The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP), provides a national focus on important policy, standards and technical components necessary to preserve digital content. Investments in modeling and testing various options and technical solutions will take place over several years, resulting in recommendations to the U.S. Congress about the most viable and sustainable options for long-term preservation. One year into the Library of Congress NDIIPP partnership, the Library of Congress and seven of the eight partners discuss the challenges of digital preservation and report significant milestones in their projects. Library of Congress http://www.digitalpreservation.gov Web at Risk: A Distributed Approach To Preserving Our Nation's Political Cultural Heritage http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/preservation/webatrisk/ MetaArchive http://www.metaarchive.org/ National Geospatial Digital Archive http://ngda.org/index.php North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project (NCGDAP) http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ncgdap/ EchoDepository Project http://ndiipp.uiuc.edu Dot Com Archive http://www.dotcomarchive.org/ Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DATAPASS PowerPoint Presentations Fall 2005 Meeting Home Page     Fall 2005 Project Briefings     Fall 2005 Schedule