Communications of the ACM,

issues with JPEG 2000 in libraries

Digital Curation conference in UNC-Chapel Hill April 1-3, 2009

While storage and technological issues have been at the forefront of the discussion on digital information, relatively little focus has been on the economic aspect of preserving vast amounts of digital data fundamental to the modern world.

This paper focuses on a particularly troublesome class of data, termed "dark data". "Dark data" is not carefully indexed and stored so becomes nearly invisible to scientists and other potential users and therefore is more likely to remain underutilized and eventually lost

Reports on the release of ARL study "Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication"

University library initiatives that are engaging in E-science issues and policy directions. Potential partners for collaboration.

Science Assessment of 2006

Policy issues at the national level are of particular interest to those involved with e-science initiatives. Several organization have emerged at the forefront of this arena and it will be particularly interesting to watch these with the future of University data policy in mind.