Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access

A Digital Preservation and Access report has been launched at a conference at the Wellcome Collection Centre today. The report has been well received by many, including the British Library, and addresses three important questions relating to digital content:

• What do we preserve?
• Who is responsible for it?
• Who pays?
  

It follows a 2 year international study (with strong US focus, in particular NSF), with leading economists participating, to build an economic model for, and to make proposals relating to, digital preservation. It focused on 4 domain areas: scholarly discourse, research data, commercially owned cultural content, collectively used web content.

The full report is available.