The new Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, Sun PASIG, is a collaborative group focused on developing, sharing and instituting global standards for best practices in digital archiving. Sun PASIG will support organizations challenged with preserving and archiving important research and cultural heritage materials.

"We are trying to meet the needs of the evolving 'cybrarian' community that is grappling with storage and data management, workflow, and high-level architecture trends in the area of preservation and archiving," said Art Pasquinelli, education market strategist, Global Education and Research, Sun.

The group is bringing together representatives from industry, education, government and library services in an effort to preserve and archive research and cultural materials. Founding members include The Alberta Library, The British Library, Johns Hopkins University, University of Oxford, Stanford University, The Texas Digital Library and other leading global libraries and universities.

Expectations are for group members to attend semi-annual meetings and share their knowledge on storage technology trends, services-oriented architecture and software code, while discussing best practices on both commercial and community-developed solutions.

Discussions will be held by working groups on architectures, use cases and business drivers, storage, access and security and operating policies, with the goal of providing common case studies and solutions for digital archiving.

Collaboration with leading institutions in the EPrints, Fedora and DSpace communities to create replicable solutions and exchange ideas on global developments around the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) architecture model will be spearheaded by Sun PASIG.

Paris will host the next Sun PASIG meeting scheduled for November 14-16. Registration is currently underway.

More information on the group can be obtained from the Sun PASIG website or by contacting Pasquinelli at Sun. [...read more...]

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