Private LOCKSS Networks: Community-based Approaches to Distributed Digital Preservation (October 2010, Boston)

This meeting will provide a forum for the current Private LOCKSS Networks (PLNs) to share information about their work with each other and with a broader community of interest. The primary intent is to help these individual community-based networks to themselves form a PLN community that actively shares knowledge, expertise, and tools in an ongoing manner. Co-sponsored by the Educopia Institute and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), this conference will have two parts:

1. To explore general principles involved with operating a distributed digital preservation network among collaborating partners;
2. To consider issues specific to using the LOCKSS technology, which is currently the leading technical strategy for distributed digital preservation network building.

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Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (May 2011, Estonia)

The “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation” Conference seeks to provide a forum in which national preservation programs may share information with each other in order to begin building strategic international collaborations to support the preservation of our collective cultural memory. The conference goals are fourfold:

1. To study digital preservation initiatives in a number of countries;
2. To identify and discuss promising technical and organizational approaches with a special emphasis on interoperability;
3. To identify and discuss models for creating economically sustainable collaborations among institutions and countries;
4. To devise an action plan for building international collaboration among interested national digital preservation initiatives.

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