Last Thursday I was delighted to attend the culminating workshop for the Society of Archivists‘ (SoA) funded digital curation project at Gloucestershire Archives. As Viv Cothey, the developer employed by Gloucestershire Archives, has noted, “Local authority archivists may well be fully aware of the very many exhortations to do digital curation and to get involved [...]
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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 [...]
Public Record Office of Victoria (2)
Posted in Operational Digital Archives, tagged Australia, backups, community archives, data storage, digital archives, digital preservation, digital storage, file formats, PROV, Public Record Office of Victoria, small archives, storage conditions, VERS on 9 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Archival Support Programme There are an estimated six to seven hundred places in the State of Victoria which hold archive collections, about 120 of which are recognised as Places of Deposit by PROV. PODs in this Australian context are “community facilities that meet the storage standards required by PROV to preserve records of significance to [...]
