[1] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (189)
Subject: A New Project In Digital Archiving
[2] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (102)
Subject: UCC Article 2B update
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Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:47:49 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: A New Project In Digital Archiving
NINCH ANNOUNCMENT
May 19, 1998
UK's CONSORTIUM OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH LIBRARIES (CURL)
Announces
CEDARS: CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives
<http://www.curl.ac.uk>
A new project furthering the development of strategies and best practices
in proceeding with digital preservation in research libraries is the
subject of the release below.
CEDARS is a new, leading JISC-funded digital preservation project of the
British Consortium of University Research Libraries aiming to address
"strategic, methodological and practical issues and to provide guidance for
libraries in best practice for digital preservation."
David Green
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>From: "Kelly L. Russell" <libklr@LIBRARY.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK>
>To: david@cni.org
>Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 13:21:19 GMT
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>Status:
>From: The Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL)
>INTRODUCTION
>In recent years university libraries have included a growing number of
>digital information resources in their collections. At present there
>is no legal obligation nor are there formal mechanisms for ensuring
>that such digital information is preserved for posterity. As
>libraries' reliance upon such resources increases, they become
>stakeholders in ensuring that those resources are maintained over the
>longer term. They are responsible for ensuring that these resources
>may be as accessible to users in 10, 20 or 200 years time as they are
>now.
>
>Just as academic libraries have an ongoing responsibility for the
>preservation and access of paper-based resources, they now have a new
>and more complex responsibility for digital resources. For digital
>materials, unlike paper, a library continues to have responsibility
>for ensuring long-term access to them irrespective of whether the
>burden for physically preserving that resource falls directly to the
>library or to a third party agency. For example in the case of an
>electronic journal, a publisher might have the ultimate role of
>preserving the physical digital object but the research library is
>responsible for providing long term access to this material for its
>researchers.
>
>The need to devise strategies for digital preservation is both
>pressing and immediate and these strategies will need to encompass all
>forms of digital information resources.
>
>DESCRIPTION
>With these issues in mind the Cedars project aims to address
>strategic, methodological and practical issues and will provide
>guidance for libraries in best practice for digital preservation.
>In the UK, CURL (The Consortium of University Research Libraries) is
>uniquely placed to lead this project. Digital preservation is a key
>issue for all its members. Under the overall direction of the CURL
>Management Board, Cedars will be based across three lead sites
>(Oxford, Leeds and Cambridge). Wider involvement from the community
>will come through focus groups, workshops and discussion lists.
>CEDARS is a three year project funded by the Joint Information
>Systems Committee (JISC) through the Electronic Libraries Programme
>(eLib).
>
>PROJECT OBJECTIVES
>The project aims to investigate strategies which will ensure that the
>digital information resources typically included in library
>collections may, with other non-digital objects, be preserved over the
>longer term. It order to achieve this aim the project plans to
>
>* promote awareness about the importance of digital preservation,
>both amongst university libraries and their users, and amongst the
>data creating and data supplying communities upon which they depend.
>
>* identify, document and disseminate strategic frameworks within which
>individual libraries can develop collection management policies which
>are appropriate to their needs and which can guide the necessary
>decision-making to safeguard the long-term viability of any digital
>resources which are included in their collections.
>
>*investigate, document and promote methods appropriate to the
>long-term preservation of different classes of digital resources
>typically included in library collections, and to develop costed and
>scaleable models, There is an enormous range of digital resources
>(e.g. text, sound, pictures, moving images). In focusing on the
>following categories ,the project intends to identify techniques which
>can be generalised and extended to the full range of digital
>materials:
> digitised primary resources
> electronic journals
> large online databases
> electronic ephemera
> digital resources in which the intellectual content in bound to
> structure, form and behaviour
>
>In meeting its objectives, the project intends, wherever possible, to
>make use of work that has already been done and to build upon existing
>expertise in digital preservation and digital collection management.
>
>KEY DELIVERABLES
>Key deliverables of the project include:
>
>*guidelines for developing collection management policies which will
>ensure the long-term viability of any digital resources included in
>the collection;
>
>*demonstrator projects to test and promote the technical and
>organisational feasibility of a chosen strategy for digital
>preservation;
>
>*methodological guidelines developed by the demonstrator projects
>providing guidance about how to preserve different classes of digital
>resources;
>
>*clearly articulated preferences about data formats, content models
>and compression techniques which are most readily and cost-effectively
>preserved;
>
>*publications of benefit to the whole higher education community,
>available on the WWW
>
>WEB SITE:
>
>As project work evolves, all Cedars working papers and documentation
>will be available at:
>
>Cedars Web Site:
>http://www.curl.ac.uk
>
>So watch this space......
>
>General information about the JISC Electronic Libraries Programme
>(eLib) can be found at:
>
>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib
>
>Information about JISC is available at:
>
>http://www.jisc.ac.uk
>
>CONTACT DETAILS
>Kelly Russell
>Cedars Project Manager
>Edward Boyle Library
>University of Leeds
>Leeds LS2 9JT
>phone: (+44) (0)113 233 6386
>fax: (+44) (0)113 233 5539
>email: k.l.russell@leeds.ac.uk
>
>Clare Jenkins
>Cedars Project Director
>BLPES
>London School of Economics
>10 Portugal Street
>London, WC2A 2HD
>phone: (+44) (0)171 955 6314
>fax: (+44) (0)171 955 7454
>email: c.jenkins@lse.ac.uk
>
>BACKGROUND
>Many of the recommendations of the Follett Report1 related to ways in
>which the use of information technology in the electronic library can
>help to alleviate some of the problems of university libraries today.
>The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) established the
>Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) as a direct response to the
>Follett Report. The programme has a budget of about =A315 million over
>3 years, and its objectives include the use of IT to improve delivery
>of information through increased use of electronic library services,
>to allow academic libraries to cope better with growth, to explore
>different models of intellectual property management and to encourage
>new methods of scholarly publishing. Now in its third phase, eLib is
>funding integration projects to build exemplar hybrid libraries (those
>which provide access to both digital and non-digital materials)
>including several Z39.50 pilot projects to link library catalogues.
>Phase 3 will also directly address issues of concern for the long-term
>preservation of and access to digital resources.
>
>
>Kelly Russell
>CEDARS Project Manager
>Edward Boyle Library
>The University of Leeds
>Leeds LS2 9JT
>phone: (+44) (0)113 233 6386
>fax: (+44) (0)113 233 5539
>email: k.l.russell@leeds.ac.uk
>
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Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 13:13:15 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: UCC Article 2B update
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
March 19, 1998
UNIVERSAL COMMERCIAL CODE REVISION UPDATE: Article 2B (Licensing) Delayed
For those following the progress of the UCC2B amendment discussions, the
following is an update. The key issue for this community in the revision of
the Universal Commercial Code is Article 2B, ruling on digital licensing
and whether fair use will or will not be pre-empted. Here is news that,
given the controversy surrounding this article that the American Law
Institute will delay final approval until next year.
Note below the hope that "Professor Charles R. McManis, leader of an
unsuccessful attempt in 1997 to include copyright preemption language in
Article 2B, may try again to introduce language that preserves in the
licensing realm fair use and other rights granted under copyright law."
David Green
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>Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 19:20:04 -0400 (EDT)
>Reply-To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
>>Precedence: bulk
>From: Richards Robert <rrichard@stripe.Colorado.EDU>
>To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
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>Hello:
>
>Chris Hoving, Managing Editor, UCC Bulletin/UCC Reporting Service,
>recently posted the message below to the UCCLAW-L listserv. His news is
>that submission of _Article 2B - Licensing_ to state legislatures will be
>delayed until 1999.
>
>Hoving's news confirms the report in US Law Week that ALI would try to
>delay approval of the Article until 1999: Citing concerns about the scope
>of the April 15 draft -- particularly its coverage of information
>resources beyond software products, and its treatment of electronic
>contracting -- as well as "technical problems," the deputy director of
>ALI announced on April 22, 1998 that ALI would delay final approval of
>Article 2B until 1999. (Jennifer B. Lucas, Draft Uniform Licensing Law
>Hits Snag; ALI Will Delay Vote on Final Draft Until 1999, 66 U.S. Law Week
>2644 (1998).)
>
>Further, Professor Charles R. McManis, leader of an unsuccessful attempt
>in 1997 to include copyright preemption language in Article 2B, may try
>again to introduce language that preserves in the licensing realm fair use
>and other rights granted under copyright law. (For more on this, see
>Matthew Kavanaugh, UCC 2B & Federal Preemption, UCCLAW-L, May 4, 1998 <
>ucclaw-l@assocdir.wuacc.edu >.)
>
>Please let me know if you have questions or comments.
>
>Rob Richards
>
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>>Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 08:57:34 -0400
>>From: Chris Hoving <choving@pf.com>
>>To: ucclaw-l@assocdir.wuacc.edu
>>Subject: 2B - Wait till next year
>>
>>Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980515085734.007b3510@pf.com>
>>
>> Any thought that the National Conference of Commissioners on
>>Uniform State Laws ("NCCUSL") would not wait for 2B's approval by the ful=
l
>>American Law Institute ("ALI") and would send it to the states after
>>receiving the blessing of the ALI Council in the fall appears to be dead.
>>At the ALI meeting, it was announced that the plan now is for NCCUSL to
>>get all of the non-controversial aspects of 2B wrapped up at its meeting
>>end of July. This will allow ALI and NCCUSL to devote full attention nex=
t
>>year to the controversial parts. Perhaps mollified by this delay, the
>>opponents of the current draft seemed to feel that compromise leading to
>>approval of a final draft next year was possible. Whether or not the
>>proponents of the current draft will stay on board until then remains to
>>be seen, but there does seem to be genuine optimism that 2B will come to
>>pass. It just won't be this year.
>>
>>Chris Hoving
>>Managing Editor
>>UCC Bulletin/UCC Reporting Service
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>>Private reply: Chris Hoving <choving@pf.com>
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