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Preservation standards discussion, for comments and if you want to help:<br>
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<li> <b>Title:</b> Preservation Standards
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<li> <b>Purpose:</b> Standards for preservation - may be brought
up in a white paper, but also will have listed information for
individuals, companies, archivists - and also company archivists, so a
wide area.
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<li> <b>Lead:</b> <i>None</i>
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<li> <b>Started:</b> N/A
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You should be aware the next white paper might deal with this directly.
Even so, a white paper is not a good reference tool for quick lookups,
this information would be worth disseminating online for easy access,
if it is the next white paper.<br>
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The standards would also be probably of multiple types. Already there
are more then one standard for preserving books properly, and standards
for metadata are widely different, as is the software used to record
it. There are also different rigorous standards for digital
preservation (as shown by the Software Preservation Society, which is
one type).<br>
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Andrew<br>
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