Having read through the original LIFE project documentation, I was looking forward to the project conference for the follow-on research, LIFE2. It is all too common, unfortunately, to hear doom-laden rumours being peddled about the supposed high costs of digital preservation, often in contexts where this truism becomes a convenient excuse to avoid addressing [...]
Archive for June, 2008
LIFE2 Project Conference, British Library, 26 June 2008
Posted in Research Projects, tagged Costs, LIFE, OAIS, PLATO on 23 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
PLATO: Philosophical Preservation Planning
Posted in Preservation Tools, Research Projects, tagged DPC, Planets, PLATO, Preservation Planning on 12 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A useful sneak preview of the PLATO preservation planning tool, something I’d heard about but not really understood how it might fit in to a practical digital preservation context.
PLATO is designed to help organisations identify, evaluate and select the best preservation methods for individual types of digital object. It is designed to enable experimentation on [...]
Digital Preservation begins… in Italy?
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, tagged Add new tag, Cultural Challenges, DELOS, OAIS on 10 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the DELOS Summer School on Preservation in Digital Libraries, which so far more than lives up to my expectation that it will provide an excellent overview of current and emerging digital preservation research and practices.
A comforting thought for local government Archive Services from the presentations on day 1:
that digital preservation is as much about [...]
