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November 5, 2007

Canadian Digital Information Strategy : draft for comment

Canadian Digital Information Strategy: draft for comment

We are pleased to announce that the draft version of the Canadian Digital Information Strategy has been released for public comment. The Strategy results from a series of meetings that took place across the country in 2005 and 2006 to gather views from content producers, users and government officials. In the course of the deliberations, more than 200 stakeholder organizations offered ideas or commentary, and nearly 100 of Canada’s leading thinkers from across the information environment participated in a national summit in December, 2006.
Building on this rich set of input, the strategy has been drafted by a 24 member development committee. It addresses some of the critical issues in digital information production, preservation and access, and proposes a range of actions to strengthen the Canadian digital information environment.

The Committee welcomes public comment on the draft strategy by November 23rd 2007. Please visit http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cdis/index-e.html to download the strategy document and to provide comments.

The objectives and proposed actions outlined briefly in the executive summary are:

Toward strengthening digital content:

- mass digitization on a national scale
- a conducive digital production environment
- improved digital production practices
- diversity in digital content production

Toward ensuring digital preservation:

- selection and capture of digital content for long-term retention
- distributed digital preservation repository network
- preservation-related research
- new workplace skills
- increased public awareness of digital preservation issues

Toward maximizing digital access:

- mechanisms for democratic, ubiquitous and equitable access
- seamless access and global visibility
- more open access to public sector information and data
- effective communication and management of copyright
- increased user research

For more information, you can read the 63-page document.

Stephen

Posted by stephen at November 5, 2007 11:52 AM