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Iona McCraith
AAO Preservation Consultant
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Subject: ERPANET Announces ErpaEPrints at IFLA2003 Berlin


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> ERPANET Announces ErpaEPrints
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> In their 1999 report on "Digital Archaeology: Rescuing Neglected and
Damaged Data Resources", Ross and Gow used 199 online references. Today,
only 32% of these resources remain accessible. This lack of persistence
remains a continuing cause for concern.  ERPANET, in collaboration with
Project Daedalus, announced on Wednesday 6 August at IFLA 2003 (Berlin) an
ePrints Service for the Digital Preservation sphere to provide a platform to
address this problem. ErpaEPrints allows authors and creators to make their
works available at a central access point. The service can be found at
http://eprints.erpanet.org
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> Key to ERPANET s rationale is the focus on the dissemination of knowledge.
To date, workshops and seminars, conferences, case studies, and an online
advisory service have all contributed to widening and expanding the
knowledge-base in this sphere. Now ePrints, with it s sister product
erpaAssessments, is offering further support and knowledge to the community.
ErpaAssessments was launched in late 2002, and provides high quality
commentaries on key literature and projects in digital preservation. Now
with the addition of erpaEPrints, ERPANET is offering not only value added
commentaries of literature, but helping to make accessible and preserve the
cutting edge primary literature. This service is free of charge to authors
and users.
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> At the outset of its project ERPANET established a long term preservation
strategy to ensure documents created by or accumulated by the project would
be available in the future. Materials deposited in the ErpaEPRINTS Archive
will benefit from these arrangements.
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> Seamus Ross, Principal Director of ERPANET, reported  ERPANET is extremely
grateful to the DAEDALUS project for enabling us to produce a new service
that provides the digital preservation community with the opportunity to
build a digital library of ePrints and ensure their long term
accessibility.
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> _Notes_
> ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Network) (IST-2001-32706) is
a Fifth Framework European Union Funded activity to enhance the preservation
of cultural heritage and scientific digital objects. It is making viable and
visible information, best practice, and skills development in the area of
digital preservation of cultural heritage and scientific objects.  ERPANET
partners include Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv, ISTBAL at the Università di
Urbino, Nationaal Archief Nederland, Den Haag, and HATII, at the University
of Glasgow. For more information about ERPANET events and services see
http://www.erpanet.org
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> DAEDALUS is a three year (2002-2005) JISC funded project under the FAIR
programme to build a range of freely accessible institutional repositories
at the University of Glasgow.  These repositories include published and
peer-reviewed papers, working papers, grey literature, and theses. For more
information about the DAEDALUS Project see http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus
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