Unchartered Territory: Building a Network for the Archiving of Geospatial Images and Data
Julie Sweetkind-Singer · Against the grain · 2009
As the oldest and largest news-gathering organization in the world, AP content shows up on Websites, Blackberrys, cell phones, TV-screen news crawls and street-corner digital tickers -wherever up-to-the-minute breaking news is a sought-after commodity.Therefore one can surmise that how, and how well, the AP organization manages its content is a matter of great consequence to libraries.For on this will be dependent whether or not this important information is available to researchers years and even decades from now.The Long-Lived Digital Collections Project will generate and disseminate models, risk assessment tools, cost data, and metrics that can inform planning and prudent investment in Cyberinfrastructure by the NSF and other federal agencies, universities, scientific consortia and institutes, corporations, publishers, and other stakeholders across the spectrum of science, social science, and humanities communities.The tools and information base developed will also inform CRL's continuing assessment and analysis of repositories and collections of digital content of interest to the CRL community.Subjects of CRL assessment range form dedicated preservation repositories such as Portico, CLOCKSS, the Scholars Portal and HathiTrust, to major digital resources maintained by commercial entities like Pro-Quest and Readex.