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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Dear Hilton,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I thought I would share the Resources I have on Digital Preservation and related matters. See:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://libguides.wits.ac.za/digitalpreservation"><span style="color:black">http://libguides.wits.ac.za/digitalpreservation</span></a> (see main and sub-tab). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Also, ‘</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Managing Digital Collections: A Collaborative Initiative on the South
African Framework’ at: <a href="http://digi.nrf.ac.za/publ/Managing%20Digital%20Collections.pdf">
<span style="color:black">http://digi.nrf.ac.za/publ/Managing%20Digital%20Collections.pdf</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Hilton Gibson [mailto:hilton.gibson@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> 02 October 2013 12:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za; Duraspace; fabteam@lists.lib.sun.ac.za<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Irtalk] SUNScholar/Digital Preservation/Policy - Libopedia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Digital_Preservation/Policy">http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Digital_Preservation/Policy</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The OSU library released their policy for long term digital preservation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Personally I believe it is a benchmark that others can measure themselves against.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It easy to read for a non-technical person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Well worth the time to read.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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