SP -- DIGITAL ARCHIVE DIRECTIONS WORKSHOP -- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The explosive growth of information in digital forms poses a severe challenge to both traditional archives and their information providers, and many national and international organizations in the government, commercial and non-profit sectors. These organizations are finding that they need to co-opt information preservation functions normally associated with traditional archives, because digital information is so easily lost or corrupted. Necessary to creating solutions to this environment is a reference model that creates a common understanding of digital archiving environments and standards that apply to these environments. A reference model exists. The reference model identifies six functional areas within an Open Archival Information System: Ingest, Storage, Data Management, Administration, Access, and Dissemination. It is important to start now to develop relevant standards in this area. National and international organizations, including the International Organization for Standardization, Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Committee on Earth Observation Satellites, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Research Libraries Group, and the National Archives and Records Administration are sponsoring the Digital Archives Directions Workshop to identify potential digital archive standardization topics. This workshop is to be held at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland from June 22 through June 26, 1998. For further information about the workshop, see the workshop home page at: http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/us12/call.html or contact Donald Sawyer at 301-286-2748. WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#DAD-Worskhop-1. E-MAIL: Donald M. Sawyer, Donald.M.Sawyer.1@gsfc.nasa.gov.

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