More bad news for the Digital Community. We discovered this week that the BCR’s CDP (Collaborative Digitisation Programme) is no longer providing digital and preservation services.

BCRs CDP evolved out of the internationally acclaimed Colorado Digitization Programme and has, most critically, been maintaining the Digital Imaging Best Practices guidelines. This was originally published as the Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices. These guidelines are widely followed and cited by cultural heritage institutions and form the basis of much of our own practice at NZMS.

Version 2.0 was released in June 2008 and we have directed a lot of people to it who are looking for advice on implementing digitisation projects.

The best practices documents are still available at www.bcr.org/dps/cdp/best/index.html but with the BCR “in the process of phasing out its operations” we are not sure how much longer they will persist.

Sad news to to see that the PADI website www.nla.gov.au/padi, which has been a mainstay for information and resources on Digital Preservation  for 14! years can no longer be maintained by the National Library of Australia.

In her post on 3 September, Maxine Davis from NLA  describes the problems of maintaining the weblinks and the  time this is taking. The  Library has reluctantly  concluded "that the existing website, database and list no longer meet the current needs and that the Library’s resources are best invested elsewhere".

"A copy of the website has been archived in PANDORA, Australia’s Web Archive. The existing live website will remain available until the end of 2010; however no new resources have been added since the start of July 2010 and the existing links will not be actively managed. The archives of the padiforum-l list will continue to be available, however no new postings will be accepted from 30 September 2010".

 

 

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