The DPC has published its response to the recent consultation from the Department for Culture Media and Sport on 'UK Online Publications'.
The DPC has welcomed the progress which has been made by the Legal Deposit Advisory Panel on recommendations for collecting digital material and is eager that the momentum recently achieved is maintained so that continuing progress can be made. It warmly welcomes the proposal for regulation-based harvesting and calls for early implementation of this proposal, offering the assistance of the DPC in capacity building for staff and tools which this will necessitate.
There is a range of opinions within the DPC's membership regarding the access provisions within the Proposals. The position of the DPC itself, however, remains clear that future access to the harvested materials at any level will be impossible without the safeguards that rigorous attention to preservation provides.
The original consultation document is online at: http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/consultations/6506.aspx
Click here to read the DPC's full response [pdf, 385kb].
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