It’s a brave person who volunteers their opinions to the lions, so if Tom Morgan can argue the case for the National Portrait Gallery before an audience of Wikimedians at the GLAM-WIKI Conference at the British Museum this last weekend [GLAM stands for 'Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums'], then I reckon the least I can do [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Costs’
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 [...]
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 »
Visiting 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 an [...]
Washington State Digital Archives
Posted in Operational Digital Archives, tagged Costs, digital archives, digital preservation, NDIIPP, USA, Washington State Digital Archives on 30 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
This was my most challenging (in a thought-provoking way) visit so far. The Washington State (upper left hand corner of the US, for those whose geography is as hazy as mine was!!) Digital Archives doesn’t seem to be terribly well known in the UK, and I’d certainly recommend colleagues have a look at their website, [...]
LIFE2 Project Conference, British Library, 26 June 2008
Posted in Research Projects, tagged Costs, LIFE, OAIS, PLATO on 23 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 the [...]
