Developing the Digital Archive at PROV
Australian archival theory emphasises the continuum of recordkeeping, with good records management seen as the core foundation of archival practice. This continuity is well illustrated by the Digital Archive project at the Public Record Office of Victoria (PROV).
Funding for the development of the Digital Archive was won on the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘OAIS’
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 [...]
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 [...]
