W3C has announced the creation of community groups “as a place for developers to collaborate on next generation Web technologies. Our stakeholders have told us that a lightweight environment for innovation is necessary because the market evolves at such a rapid pace. We have designed Community Groups to lower barriers to participation, while at the same time maintaining our Working Groups for building broader consensus around technologies that are mature enough for standardization.”
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The Library of Congress has listed a number of courses and workshops, including free online ones, in digital preservation. This looks like a good page to bookmark.
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OK, I changed the title text just slightly…
Presentations from May’s JPEG2000 Summit are now available online.
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Lose yourself for days following links in Charles W. Bailey’s Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography.
Thanks to Jill Hurst-Wahl for the link.
Andy Jackson, blogging with the Open Planets Foundation, has an interesting post on where format registries should be going.
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Files that Last: Digital Preservation for Everygeek, an e-book to bring the message of digital preservation to the broader geek world.
Mad File Format Science 
Format registries
Two posts in one day!
That Library Journal article led to a number of interesting links (you’ll notice I’ve added Karen Coyle’s blog to my blogroll), and eventually I came upon this article by Chris Rusbridge on file format registries.
GDFR was originally supposed to be a distributed registry without a central site, but that idea collapsed under the weight of its complexity before GDFR itself ran out of steam. UDFR is trying to do something similar. I wonder if the best solution to the problem of format coverage would be a moderated wiki that didn’t require new, complicated software underpinnings.
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