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In the Community

Organizational Memberships
Participation in Community Efforts
Selected Presentations
Articles by Portico

Organizational Memberships

Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers - Associate Member
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) - Affiliation via Ithaka
CrossRef - Affiliate Member
National Information Standards Organization (NISO) - Affiliation via Ithaka
Society for Scholarly Publishing - Supporting Member
STM – the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers – Affiliate Member
United Kingdom Serials Group - Member

Participation in Community Efforts

Archive Preservation Agreement between the National Library of the Netherlands and Portico
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands (the KB), will hold an off-line copy of the Portico archive for safekeeping. For more information, please see the announcement or the signed agreement.
JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment ("JHOVE")
The JSTOR Electronic-Archiving Initiative, the precursor to Portico, and the Harvard University Library collaborated on a project to develop an extensible framework for format validation. The result, JHOVE, is now available as an open source tool.
NCBI XML Interchange Structure Working Group (advisory body for the NCBI Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD Suite)
Evan Owens, Portico Chief Technology Officer, serves as member of this group which governs revisions to this freely-available DTD.
Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) Working Group
Evan Owens, Portico Chief Technology Officer, served as a member of this international working group which in May 2005 released the Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata. The dictionary "defines and describes an implementable set of core preservation metadata with broad applicability to digital preservation repositories." The PREMIS working group's final report and a series of examples illustrating use of the data dictionary.
The British Library eIS Technical Advisory Panel
Evan Owens, Portico Chief Technology Officer, serves as a member of this group.
LIFE Project Advisory Board
Eileen Fenton, Portico Executive Director, is a member of the advisory board of this project which is examining the life cycle of the collection and preservation of digital materials. The project, which is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), is collaboration between the University College London Library Services and the British Library.

Selected Presentations

ALA Annual Conference, June 2008, Portico Participant's Meeting Presentations
Eileen Fenton, Portico Executive Director, "Learning by Doing: Early Operation of the Portico Archiving Service", December 2006, CNI Fall 2006 Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC
Eileen Fenton, Portico Executive Director, "Portico: An Electronic Archiving Service", November 2006, 2006 SSP Fall Educational Seminar 3: What Works in Archiving? Case Studies for Technology, Maintenance, Business Models, and More, Washington, DC
Eileen Fenton, Portico Executive Director, "Portico: An Electronic Archiving Service", November 2006, XXVI Annual Charleston Conference: 2006 - Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition, Charleston, SC
Evan Owens, Portico CTO, "Online Journal Publishing Best Practices: From Production to Preservation," September 2006, Allen Press Editorial Seminar, Lawrence, KS.
Robin Dale, RLG Program Officer, Guest Speaker, "Developing Metrics to Evaluate Digital Archives." June 24, 2006 Portico Participants' Meeting, ALA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Evan Owens, "Automated Workflow for the Ingest and Preservation of Electronic Journals," May 25, 2006, Archiving 2006, Ottawa, Canada. (A pre-print of the full paper is also available.)
Evan Owens, "A Format-Registry-Based Automated Workflow for the Ingest and Preservation of Electronic Journals," November 8, 2005, Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Charlottesville, VA.
Kevin Guthrie, "Portico: An Important Component of a New Preservation Infrastructure," October 27, 2005, Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC.
William G. Bowen, "New Times Always; Old Times We Cannot Keep," October 26, 2005, Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC.

Articles by Portico

Kirchhoff, Amy and Eileen Fenton. "Preserving E-Journals: An Overview of Portico." The Serials Librarian 53, no. 4 (2008).
Fenton, Eileen. "Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico." Ariadne 47 (2006). http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue47/fenton/ (Accessed June 2, 2006).
Fenton, Eileen. "An Overview of Portico: An Electronic Archiving Service." Serials Review 32, no. 2 (2006): 55-150. Download article.
Kirchhoff, Amy, and Eileen Fenton. Archiving Electronic Journals: An Overview of Portico's Approach. Papers from Portico. Portico (2006).
Schonfeld, Roger C., and Eileen Gifford Fenton. "Digital Savings." Library Journal 130, no. 4 (2005): 50-51. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA504648.html (Accessed June 2, 2006).
Schonfeld, Roger C., Donald W. King, Ann Okerson, and Eileen Gifford Fenton. "Library Periodicals Expenses: Comparison of Non-Subscription Costs of Print and Electronic Formats on a Life-Cycle Basis." D-Lib Magazine 10, no. 1 (2004). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january04/schonfeld/01schonfeld.html (Accessed June 2, 2006).
Fenton, Eileen. "The Digital Preservation Conundrum, Part 2: Preservation and Electronic-Archiving." The Serials Librarian 46, no. 1/2 (2004): 115-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J123v46n01_13 (Accessed August 18, 2006).
Schonfeld, Roger C., Donald W. King, Ann Okerson, and Eileen Fenton. The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats. (2004). http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub127abst.html (Accessed June 2, 2006).

Last updated on July 22, 2008