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Which is the most comprehensive online reference centre for digital preservation resources?

Many different projects and people publish digital preservation papers each year, in lots of different journals, conferences, on institutional websites etc. Trawling the web on dp research missions can be time consuming. So I'm wondering which is currently the most comprehensive and up-to-date online portal for digital preservation publications.

I know of several personal collections - eg using Zotero, Mendeley, Delicious etc,

The organisational ones I used to use don't seem to be updated anymore - PADI certainly isn't, and the Dutch National Archives' Digital Preservation Knowledge Centre doesn't seem to have been updated recently.

Which are people currently relying on, if any?

mopennock

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Answer by trevormunoz

The Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., aims to be pretty comprehensive. It's a formal bibliography in the traditional style, which takes time and labor to prepare (many thanks to the author for his dedication), so I'm not sure how frequent the updates are but it is still being maintained.

http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/toc.htm

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Answer by Andrew

Like the previous commenter, I use Charles Bailey's bibliography and would also recommend it. Since the demise of PADI its pretty much the only source that tries to collect all published material.

The other thing you could do is set up an alert in Google Scholar. Lots of info about how to do that is here: http://scholar.google.com.au/intl/en/scholar/help.html#alerts. I have one set up for "digital preservation" and that sends me one or two emails every week listing all new publications which match the search criteria. Its not perfect but its certainly very useful.

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Answer by Charles W. Bailey Jr

My latest OA e-book (2012) is the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works (http://www.digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcb.htm). See also: Research Data Curation Bibliography (http://www.digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm) and Digital Curation Resource Guide (http://digital-scholarship.org/dcrg/dcrg.htm).

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Answer by Sue Manus

The NDIIPP program (digital preservation) at the Library of Congress keeps an updated list of its partner publications at: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/multimedia/publications.html

And the overall site at: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov serves as a portal for a wide range of information and resources concerning digital preservation, and it is updated regularly.

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