Digital Preservation Task Force Update

Preservation Task Force Report

NLA Task Force on Statin Safety--2014 update.

1933-2874/$ see front matter 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacl.2014.03 Statins are the most widely prescribed class of medications in the United States and their benefits for lowering lowdensity lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and reducing the risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) are well documented. Statins have been the cornerstone of pharmacotherapy for the management of high blood chol...

Digital Preservation through Digital Sustainability

The concept of digital sustainability introduces a holistic approach on how to maximize the benefits of digital resources for our society. The nine basic conditions for digital sustainability also provide a contribution to potential solutions to the challenges of digital preservation. Elaborateness, transparent structures, semantic data, distributed location, an open licensing regime, shared ta...

Chronopolis Digital Preservation Network

The Chronopolis Digital Preservation Initiative, one of the Library of Congress’ latest efforts to collect and preserve at-risk digital information, has completed its first year of service as a multimember partnership to meet the archival needs of a wide range of domains. Chronopolis is a digital preservation data grid framework developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San D...

Digital Preservation Metadata Standards