Some exciting news today - the West Yorkshire Archive Service [WYAS] submission to the InterPares 3 Research Project for a case study of the MLA Yorkshire archives has been accepted. MLA Yorkshire, the lead strategic agency for museums, libraries and archives in the region, closes this week (so that live website might not be available for too [...]
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MLA Yorkshire Archives Accepted for InterPares Project
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, Research Projects, tagged Archive-It, digital archives, digital preservation, Digital Preservation Networks, Internet Archive, InterPares, MLA Yorkshire archives, UK, Web Archiving, WYAS on 19 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
E-mail Preservation
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, Preservation Tools, Research Projects, tagged CERP, Costs, digital preservation, digital recordkeeping, email, email preservation, low cost, North Carolina, small archives, Smithsonian, USA, XML on 10 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lots of interesting work going on at North Carolina State Archives – plenty to read on their electronic records page. One project I’d particularly like to highlight is their work on the preservation of e-mail.
E-mail seems to be one of those types of electronic record about which there’s been lots and lots of discussion about [...]
Best Practices Exchange
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, tagged Best Practice Exchanges, digital preservation, USA on 6 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An ongoing sub-theme of my Fellowship has been to look at where success in digital preservation has come by means of collaborative partnerships, and to investigate how communities of shared practice can be built up and best practice ideas exchanged.
The Best Practice Exchanges take place annually, and provide a forum for those working on digital [...]
It’s hot in Arizona!
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, tagged Arizona, Costs, data storage, digital archives, digital preservation, digital storage, LOCKSS, low cost, NDIIPP, PeDALS, Preservation Networks, USA on 5 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
isiting Arizona was a useful way of pulling together many of the strands of what I’ve learnt so far. I was particularly interested in the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS) project, which aims to create an automated workflow for processing digital collections, but also to keep costs as low as possible in [...]
Partnerships for Preservation
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, tagged ADRI, APSR, Australia on 23 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hope many archivists working in local authority services in the UK have completed the survey on digital preservation which is currently running. The results of the survey will be fed into an open consultation event to be held at The National Archives on 12 November 2008. Those of us who have been working on [...]
PANDORA Web Archive
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, Operational Digital Archives, tagged Australia, National Library of Australia, Web Archiving on 16 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The National Library of Australia (NLA) began their web archiving project, PANDORA, in 1996, and the current team consists of four members of staff. The NLA’s web archiving programme is selective, contrasting with approaches in the Scandinavian countries in particular where the aim has been to harvest the entirety of the country’s web domain. [...]
Preparing for my Churchill Fellowship
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, Journal Articles, Preservation Tools, Research Projects, tagged AONS, Cultural Challenges, Library of Congress, National Library of Australia, NDIIPP, PeDALS, Planets, PLATO, Preservation Planning on 17 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of articles in the most recent edition of the International Journal of Digital Curation caught my eye this week as I prepare for my forthcoming Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship to Australia and the US.
Martha Anderson reviews the evolution of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program initiated by the Library of Congress, [...]
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 [...]
