Just a quick place-marking type post to point people towards the presentation slides from today’s Edinburgh Digital Preservation Roadshow, particularly those from Jane Brown on the National Archive of Scotland’s Digital Data Archive. NAS has written an in-house workflow tool for ingest in .NET, and, interestingly, are proposing to follow the Australians in an up-front normalisation to open-source strategy, rather than the migration model favoured by The National Archives in London. Local archivists may be particularly interested because NAS are users of the Calm collections management system, which is in widespread use across the sector in the UK. I wondered during the presentation why I’d not encountered the Digital Data Archive before, but apparently this was its first public outing. It looks an impressive achievement, considering that they estimate the total staff resource on the project to approximate to only one full time equivalent over the last four to five years. I am due to visit the NAS soon, so hopefully more to follow…
Edinburgh Digital Preservation Roadshow, November 2009
28 October 2009 by 80gb
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Hi Alexandra.
It’s nice to see the NAS implementing an approach similar to ours.
You mention in your comments a normalisation to open-source. I think it’s useful to clarify the difference between open source and open formats. Open source refers to the availability of the source code written to create executable computer software. Open formats are freely available, standards based descriptions of the way that data is stored in computer systems.
One does not necessarily imply the other. It’s possible to use closed source software to work with open formats and that may well be what the NAS is doing. It so happens that in addition to open formats, we believe in the use of open source software to do this work. So here at the NAA we make our digital preservation software freely available under a license that allows anyone to modify the source code and share it with others.
Regards,
Michael Carden
Assistant Director of Digital Preservation
National Archives of Australia
Apologies for lazy use of language.
Slightly overwhelmed by four comments from Australia in as many minutes…!
Maybe we are the only part of the world that is awake?