- From: Helle Bjarnø <hbj@visinfo.dk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:38:52 +0200
- To: "EOWG (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
On Wednesday I got this from an OCLC mailing list and thought it may be interesting to some of you "over there" It's a rather long text so if you are interested let me know and I'll forward it. Here is a short clip from the text: "...The goal of the Web Document Digital Archive project is to create a sustainable service to provide long-term access to web documents... OCLC is seeking direct input on the project from a variety of institutions already focused on the issue: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO); The Connecticut State Library; and the Joint Electronic Records Repository Initiative (JERRI), a partnership of the State Library of Ohio, the Ohio Historical Society's State Archives, the Ohio Supercomputer Center and the Ohio Department of Administrative Services. "Participants will be collaborating with OCLC on system user requirements, evaluating working prototypes through 'hands-on' experience, and developing policies and practices for long-term retention in concert with current best practices established through other digital archive projects internationally," said Taylor Surface, director of OCLC Content Management Services. "Long-term retention and access to documents published on the World Wide Web have universal appeal to libraries and people seeking the information in them." ... " Kind regards Helle Bjarno Visual Impairment Knowledge Centre e-mail: hbj@visinfo.dk http://www.visinfo.dk/ phone: +45 39 46 01 04, fax: +45 30 61 94 14 mail: Rymarksvej 1, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark.
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