Society of Archivists Conference 2010 – Day 2 (#soa10)

I had a day at the Society of Archivists’ Conference 2010 in Manchester last Thursday; rather a mixed bag. I wasn’t there in time for the first couple of papers, but caught the main strand on digital preservation after the coffee break. It’s really good to see digital preservation issues get such a prominent billing [...]

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Gloucestershire Archives – Digital Curation from Ingest to Trusted Storage

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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Public Record Office of Victoria Digital Archive (1)

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 [...]

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LIFE2 Project Conference, British Library, 26 June 2008

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 [...]

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Digital Preservation begins… in Italy?

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 [...]

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