NCDD publishes English summary of Dutch National Digital Preservation Survey
The NCDD has prepared a twenty-page English-language summary of its interim report 'A future for our digital memory: permanent access to digital information in the Netherlands' on the results of the Dutch National Digital Preservation Survey which was conducted in the first half of 2009.
The study concludes that proper curation of digital data in the Netherlands is still rather fragmentary. Well-known stakeholders such as the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, and the Nationaal Archief (National Archives) have made substantial progress in securing permanent access to the publications and data entrusted to them, but much information still eludes the archiving organisations.
The report will be discussed at a (predominantly Dutch-language) national conference to be held in The Hague on 18 September. The report and the conference will inspire a strategic plan the NCDD will draw up at the end of 2009.
