- Project update
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A brief update on the GDFR project was presented at the July 19-20, 2006,
NDIIPP (National Digitial Information Infrastructure Preservation Program)
Partner's Meeting.
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- HUL/OCLC agreement
[ July 3, 2006 ]
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The Harvard University Library and OCLC have signed an agreement under which
OCLC will staff and performt the technical work for the GDFR project.
- Job opportunities with the GDFR projects
[ January 18, 2006 ]
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The GDFR project has positions open for a project manager and a systems
developer.
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[Note that both project positions have been
filled (July 3, 2006)]
- HUL receives Mellon grant for GDFR
[ December 13, 2005 ]
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"Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards $600,000 to HUL for Global Digital
Format Registry. The Harvard University Library (HUL) has received a
grant of $600,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the
development of a registry of authoritative information about digital
formats."
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- "Establishing a Global Digital Format Registry"
[ Summer 2005 ]
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"Detailed knowledge of the internal properties of digital
representation formats is necessary to interpret properly the full
information content of otherwise opaque digital objects. These
properties form an important component of the representation
information needed by repository workflows regardless of local
preservation strategy and infrastructure decisions. . . . A sustainable GDFR should
prove to be of great utility to archives, libraries, digital
repositories, and other organizations and individuals interested in
the long-term viability of digital assets."
— Stephen L. Abrams, Library Trends 54.1 (Summer 2005)
- "Global Digital Format Registry"
[ April 2004 ]
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"The digital preservation community needs a sustainable registry from
which it can reliably recover authoritative format representation
information defined at arbitrary levels of granularity. . . . GDFR
is intended to maintain persistent, unambiguous bindings
between public identifiers for digital formats and representation
information for those formats."
— Stephen L. Abrams and David Seaman,
IS&T Archiving Conference, San Antonio, April 20-23, 2004
- "Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR)"
[ March 2004 ]
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— Stephen L. Abrams, DSpace User Group Meeting,
MIT, March 10-11, 2004
- FRED [ March 23, 2004 ]
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"FRED (Format REgistry Demonstration) is an experimental system that
demonstrates a simple digital format registry service. Folks who are
interested in creating a global digital format registry can use FRED
to see what information is useful to put in such a registry,
contribute and maintain sample information, and try out some ideas for
viewing and managing this information. The information model is based
on models discussed in meetings of the Global Digital Format Registry
group that is sponsored by the Digital Library Federationn."
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- Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session
[ November 18, 2003 ]
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Digital Libary Federation (DLF)
Fall Forum, Albuquerque
- "Towards a Global Format Registry"
[ August 2003 ]
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"The concept of format permeates all technical areas of digital
repository architecture and operation. Proper interpretation of
otherwise opaque content streams is dependent upon knowledge of how
typed content is represented. The international digital library and
archival communities have expressed their need for a sustainable,
global registry of digital representation formats for the purpose of
fulfilling their mission."
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— Stephen L. Abrams and David Seaman,
World Library and Information Congress: 69th IFLA GeneralConference and
Council, Berlin, August 1-9, 2003
- "A Registry for Digital Format Representation Information"
[ May 2003 ]
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&mdash Stephen L. Abrams and Mackenzie Smith,
DLF Spring Forum, New York, May 14-16, 2003
- "Global Digital Format Registry"
[ May 2003 ]
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— Stephen L. Abrams, Ready to Wear: Metadata Standards to Suit Your
Project, An RLG-CIMI Forum, New York, May 12-13, 2003
- Workshop [ March 25-26, 2003 ]
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Digital Library Federation (DLF)-sponsored invitational workshop,
Cosmos Club, Washington, DC
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- Workshop [ January 24, 2003 ]
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Digital Library Federation (DLF)-sponsored invitational workshop,
University of Pennsylvania
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Last updated: 2006-10-06