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In the Community

As reliance upon digital scholarly resources has grown, the need to develop robust methods to guide electronic archiving practice has become increasingly urgent. In response to this need, several community-based groups and forums have emerged to explore key issues, develop standards, and document best practices. Portico is a member of several organizations supporting efforts, and Portico staff are involved in a number of community-based projects.

Organizational Memberships

• Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers - Associate Member
• Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) - Affiliation via Ithaka
• CrossRef - Affiliate Member
• National Information Standards Organization (NISO) - Affiliation via Ithaka
• Society for Scholarly Publishing - Supporting Member
• United Kingdom Serials Group - Member

Community Efforts

• Archive Preservation Agreement between the National Library of the Netherlands and Portico
  The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands (the KB), will hold an off-line copy of the Portico archive for safekeeping. For more information, please see the announcement or the signed agreement.
  
• JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment ("JHOVE")
  The JSTOR Electronic-Archiving Initiative, the precursor to Portico, and the Harvard University Library collaborated on a project to develop an extensible framework for format validation. The result, JHOVE, is now available as an open source tool.
• NCBI XML Interchange Structure Working Group (advisory body for the NCBI Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD Suite)
  Evan Owens, Portico Chief Technology Officer, serves as member of this group which governs revisions to this freely-available DTD.
• Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) Working Group
  Evan Owens, Portico Chief Technology Officer, served as a member of this international working group which in May 2005 released the Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata. The dictionary "defines and describes an implementable set of core preservation metadata with broad applicability to digital preservation repositories." The PREMIS working group's final report and a series of examples illustrating use of the data dictionary.
• The British Library eIS Technical Advisory Panel
  Evan Owens, Portico Chief Technology Officer, serves as a member of this group.
• LIFE Project Advisory Board
  Eileen Fenton, Portico Executive Director, is a member of the advisory board of this project which is examining the life cycle of the collection and preservation of digital materials. The project, which is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), is collaboration between the University College London Library Services and the British Library.

For additional community events in which we have participated, see our listings of Events and Presentations.

Last updated on March 31, 2008