The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at LC continues posting interesting material about people, organizations, and services that will make today’s digital content available long into the future. This is a topic that we often forget about by simply assuming that because it’s digitized it will always be ready and available. Future access and preservation has always been a “core” issue in librarianship and even as digital services and digitization projects move forward, preservation issues must also be a part of the discussion. This is a massive issue and info pros must be a part of the discussion.

This post is an interview with Eileen Fenton, executive director of Portico, an electronic archiving service.

Portico is a partner in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. NDIIPP is supporting Portico’s development of the archives’ technical infrastructure and an economically sustainable business model for a continuing archiving service for scholarly resources published in electronic form, beginning with electronic scholarly journals.

From the interview:

“When publishers and libraries become Portico participants, they are effectively banding together – much like an insurance cooperative – to protect against the loss of the scholarly record,” says Portico Executive Director Eileen Fenton. “They’re securing protection against the risk that, at some point in the future – it’s hard to know when – our digital scholarly heritage will be lost. The archive assures that access to the e-scholarship of today will be sustained for generations to come.”

See Also: Papers, Articles, and Presentations by the Portico Team (including Eileen Fenton)

See Also: Pioneers: The LOCKSS Team

See Also: Pioneers of Digital Preservation: CPSR and Director Myron Gutmann

See Also: Portico Signs New Member (2, 2007)

See Also: Portico Unveils Holdings Comparison Service

See Also: Presentation: “Learning by Doing: Early Operation of the Portico Archiving Service”

See Also: Portico Will Archive Cambridge University Press Journals

See Also: Portico to preserve journal collection from CSIRO Publishing

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