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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘OAIS’
Society of Archivists Conference 2010 – Day 2 (#soa10)
Posted in Conferences, tagged collaboration, digital archives, digital preservation, India, OAIS, participation, SoA, user generated content, volunteers on 7 September 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]