National Digital Preservation Survey
Just published:
A future for our digital memory: permanent access to information in the Netherlands, English-language summary, twenty-page English-language summary of the report of the Dutch National Digital Preservation Survey; Dutch report 1 July 2009.
In order to underpin its strategy, the NCDD decided build a detailed picture of the current situation in the public sector in the Netherlands. Can institutions or domains be identified which have successfully risen to the challenge of digital preservation and permanent access? What categories of data are in danger of being lost? How can the risks be managed? The so-called National Digital Preservation Survey was funded by the Ministry of Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and was held in the first six months of 2009.
A team of three researchers conducted some seventy interviews with stakeholders in three distinct sectors: government & archives, the research community, and cultural heritage institutions.
