HUL receives Mellon grant for development of Global Digital Format Registry

Information obtained from PADI-Preservation mailing list

members of the list will be interested to hear that Harvard University Library has been awarded a Mellon grant to develop the Global Digital Format Registry. The grant is for a two year project commencing February 2006.

Further information on the registry is available at http://hul.harvard.edu/gdfr/about.html

A copy of the project proposal to the Mellon foundation can be downloaded from http://hul.harvard.edu/gdfr/documents/Proposal-2005-09-29.doc


With thanks to Andreas Aschenbrenner for drawing this development to the attention of the list.