[Genealib] Ancestrybank etc.

[Traci Thompson]

Thanks for the information on your "ownership" policies.   A little more
about digital preservation...just this past Friday I took on online class
concerning digitization and metadata, and a link was provided to a report
outlining the Association of Research Libraries' new stance recommending
digitization as a form of preservation.  They acknowledge the many problems
of doing so, however, as well as the standards that need to be followed if
digitization is truly to be perservation, such as capturing "preservation
metadata", i.e. technical data such as the scanning software used to create
the digital product, documentation of the physical condition of the
original, etc.  The instructor's opinion was that digitization is only truly
preservation if the document is "born digital."   If anyone is interested,
the link is: *http://www.arl.org/preserv/digit_final.html*<http://www.arl.org/preserv/digit_final.html>

Traci Thompson
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