Message-Id: <199805121511.IAA09880@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 08:05:44 -0700 From: Stuart Glogoff <mailto:sglogoff@BIRD.LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU> Subject: two items of interest To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Hello Imagelib'ers: Following are two items copied from Carolyn Kotlas' mailto:<carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu> April 1998 IAT INFOBITS message. I thought you would want to visit these sites, if you've not been there yet.BTW, feel free to share on Imagelib any observations re: these sites that you feel are appropriate. Regards, StuartDIGITAL CONTINUITY AND PRESERVATION CONFERENCE
The "Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity" conference, sponsored by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Information Institute, in collaboration with the Long Now Foundation, was held at the Getty Center on Feb 8-10, 1998, to explore the issue of preservation in the digital age and the impact of digital technologies on our cultural heritage. The Time and Bits Web site includes transcripts, images, and video clips from the meeting; an online discussion forum; participants list; papers related to the conference; and links to digital preservation resources on the Web. The Time and Bits Web site is at http://www.ahip.getty.edu/timeandbits/index.html
The Getty Conservation Institute "works internationally to further the appreciation and preservation of the world's cultural heritage for the enrichment and use of present and future generations." For more information, see their Web site at http://www.getty.edu/gci/
The Getty Information Institute "works to enhance global access to arts and humanities information by encouraging those responsible for preserving the cultural heritage to collaborate in building a cultural information infrastructure." The Institute has created several research and bibliographic databases in the areas of art and architecture. For more information, see their Web site at http://www.gii.getty.edu/
The Long Now Foundation was established in 1996 to foster long-term responsibility. The Foundation sponsors activities that promote planning for the "deep future." Their focus is on planning for the coming centuries, rather than for the next several years. For more information, see their Web site at http://www.longnow.org/ ...................................................................... DIGITAL FUTURE COALITION
The Digital Future Coalition (DFC) was formed in 1995 in response to the Clinton administration's "White Paper on Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure," which recommended significantly altering existing copyright law in ways that would restrict access to digital information by educators, businesses, libraries, consumers, and others. The DFC is a collaboration of non-profit educational, scholarly, library, and consumer groups, together with major commercial trade associations representing leaders in the consumer electronics, telecommunications, computer, and network access industries. DFC members include the American Library Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Association of Research Libraries, the Modern Language Association, and the National Education Association. The Coalition is committed to "striking an appropriate balance in law and public policy between protecting intellectual property and affording public access to it."
More information about the DFC, its current activities, and its members is available on the Web at http://www.dfc.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------ IAT INFOBITS April 1998 No. 58 ISSN 1071-5223 About INFOBITS: INFOBITS is an electronic service of the Institute for Academic Technology's Information Resources Group. Each month we monitor and select from a number of information technology and instruction technology sources that come to our attention and provide brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators.
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