Please forgive the cross-posting The Electronic Records Archives (ERA) Program of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) engages in many research collaborations. Several of our research partners from the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park have recently posted presentations and publications to the web. I thought these might be of interest to the members of this list. At Archiving 2007 the following paper was presented: PAWN: a Policy-Driven Software Environment for Implementing Producer-Archive Interactions in Support of Long Term Digital Preservation http://adaptwiki.umiacs.umd.edu/twiki/pub/Lab/Papers/pawn-archiving07-uploaded.pdf The accompanying PowerPoint Presentation can be found at: http://adaptwiki.umiacs.umd.edu/twiki/pub/Lab/Papers/PAWN-Archiving07-v1.ppt#1 At DigCCurr 2007 the following paper was presented: The Use of the Producer-Archive Workflow Network (PAWN) in Support of Customized Archival Practice http://adaptwiki.umiacs.umd.edu/twiki/pub/Lab/Papers/Digccurr07-paper-final.pdf The accompanying PowerPoint Presentation can be found at: http://adaptwiki.umiacs.umd.edu/twiki/pub/Lab/Papers/digccurr07-v1.ppt At Long Term Sustainment of Digital Information for Science and Engineering , NIST Interoperability Week(04/07) the following PowerPoint presentation was made: http://adaptwiki.umiacs.umd.edu/twiki/pub/Lab/Papers/ADAPT-NIST-04-07.ppt Mark Conrad Electronic Records Archives (ERA) NHE, Room 1540 The National Archives and Records Administration 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Phone: 301-837-0924 Fax: 301-837-0394 Email: [log in to unmask] ERA Website: www.archives.gov/electronic_records_archives List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance