Presentations from the successful open consultation day held at TNA on 12 November on digital preservation for local authority archivists are now available on the DPC website - including my report on my Churchill Fellowship research in the US and Australia. Also featured were colleagues from other local authority services already active in practical digital preservation initiatives [...]
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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 [...]
Archive-It!
Posted in Operational Digital Archives, Preservation Tools, tagged Archive-It, DSpace, Fedora, Internet Archive, LOCKSS, USA, Web Archiving on 26 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Probably the best posting I can make on the Internet Archive, based in San Francisco, is to encourage colleagues to have a look at their Archive-It subscription service, and perhaps attend a free webinar about the tool (details on the site) or at least have a look through some of the collections from partner institutions [...]
Digitisation of Heritage Materials
Posted in Preservation Tools, tagged Australia, digitisation, DOHM, National Library of Australia on 22 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my previous post, I’ve recommended working with depositors to explain the issues of digital preservation and to suggest simple steps for creating and curating digital records with a view to their long-term preservability.
I guess it would be correct to say though that many local archives staff do not feel confident in giving such advice. [...]
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 Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets - British Library, 29 July 2008
Posted in Preservation Tools, Research Projects, tagged Planets, PLATO, Preservation Planning on 29 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This article was written for the Society of Archivists ARC magazine, October 2008
It was pleasing to see a good number of archivists at this event, organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition (http://www.dpconline.org/) in conjunction with the European digital preservation research consortium, Planets (http://www.planets-project.eu/). The day was billed as an informal and interactive workshop, allowing [...]
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 [...]
