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The December 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.

This issue contains seven articles, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from
recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'.  This month D-Lib features the Library of Congress Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources.

The articles include:

AIHT: Conceptual Issues from Practical Tests
Clay Shirky, New York University

Harvard's Perspective on the Archive Ingest and Handling Test
Stephen Abrams, Stephen Chapman, Dale Flecker, Sue Kreigsman, Julian
Marinus, Gary McGath, and Robin Wendler, Harvard University

The Archive Ingest and Handling Test: The Johns Hopkins University Report
Tim DiLauro, Mark Patton, David Reynolds, and G. Sayeed Choudhury, The
Johns Hopkins University

Archive Ingest and Handling Test: The Old Dominion University Approach

Michael L. Nelson, Johan Bollen, Giridhar Manepalli, and Rabia Haq, Old
Dominion University

The AIHT at Stanford University: Automated Preservation Assessment of
Heterogeneous Digital Collections
Richard Anderson, Hannah Frost, Nancy Hoebelheinrich, and Keith Johnson,

Parallel Worlds: Online Games and Digital Information Services
John Kirriemuir, Silversprite

Open Access Federation for Library and Information Science: dLIST and
DL-Harvest
Anita Coleman and Joseph Roback, University of Arizona