STANDARDS GROUPS, ORGANIZATIONS, & ASSOCIATIONS WORKING ON PRESERVATION TOPICS

1. ISO TC171 digital media
2. NIST: NDIPP, DPIF, 
3. ITIC: DCMP
4. NARA: ERA
5. CASPAR
6. Biodiversity Library http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org
7. UK Data Archive http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
8. Planets http://planets-project.eu/
9. Europeana http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
10. Center for Research Libraries, CRL, Digital Archives
11. Nestor - the German competence network for digital preservation
12. UK National Archives Preservation - Preservation Guidance
13. JISC Listserve - Digital Preservation reflector
14. NISO Newsletter  Information Standards Quarterly (now free)

TECHNICAL WORKING GROUPS OPERATING ON KEY PRESERVATION STANDARDS 

1. Unified Digital Formats Registry (UDFR) Technical Working Group
2. SNIA  LTR-TWG (Long-Term Retention Technical Working Group)
3. ISO JTC 1 Working groups 
4. the Digital Repository Audit and Certification Wiki - audit and certification requirements discussion in support of MOIMS-RAC
5. MOIMS-RAC working group which is creating the ISO standard for Audit and Certification of repositories
6. NIST, Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework, DPIF