'Coalition' of coalitions
During the recent iPRES-conference in San Francisco (live Dutch-language blogs from which were transmitted minutes after each session by the NCDD’s coordinator), a special meeting took place between all known national collaborative efforts in the field of digital preservation. In the photograph from left to right Inge Angevaare (Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation), Abigail Potter (US Library of Congress, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, NDIPP), Sabine Schrimpf (nestor, Germany), Martha Anderson (NDIPP) and William Kilbride (British Digital Preservation Coalition, DPC) met to discuss ways of strenghtening international cooperation in the field of permanent access. Of course contacts had been established long before the conference, but this was the first time the coalitions actually physically sat at one table together. The meeting led to a number of practical arrangements to keep the flow of knowledge and information going. And of course all raised their glasses to permanent accesss and to international cooperation.
