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Benchmarking with DPC RAM: Results of member survey 2022
This online members-only event will be held on the 17th of August from 6:30am to 7:30am UTC (click for local time). Introduction The DPC’s Rapid Assessment Model is a maturity modelling tool for digital preservation. With the concept of continuous improvement at its heart, it is considered to be of most value when used regularly to check in on progress and adjust targets. The DPC therefore encourages members to carry out a self-assessment using DPC RAM on an annual basis, and members are...
Adaptability in the face of adversity - Archiving the Web to Help Persons Forced to Flee
Tom Wilson is Associate Archivist at United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Introduction The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has a mandate to support and advocate on behalf of one of the most vulnerable groups of people in the world today. As one of the major issues facing the world today, the plight of refugees, internally displaced people, stateless people and other persons forced to flee is an ever-growing issue. Whilst the title of this post primarily...
Getting Started with Advocacy for Digital Preservation (Western Timezones)
26th July, 1300 - 1430 UTC and 28th July, 1300 - 1430 UTC (click for local times) This training has been timed to be suitable for attendees in Europe, Africa and the Americas, but you are welcome to attend whichever session you prefer. Introduction Digital preservation relies on a wide range of skills and services, so practitioners and managers must coordinate a diverse set of skills, policies, tools and services from disparate sources within and outside their organisations....
Getting Started with Advocacy for Digital Preservation (Eastern Timezones)
26th July, 0700 - 0830 UTC and 28th July, 0700 - 0830 UTC (click for local times) This training has been timed to be suitable for attendees in Australasia and Asia Pacific, but you are welcome to attend whichever session you prefer. Introduction Digital preservation relies on a wide range of skills and services, so practitioners and managers must coordinate a diverse set of skills, policies, tools and services from disparate sources within and outside their organisations. The...
Registration now open for 'Getting Started with Advocacy for Digital Preservation' training, 26-28 July 2022
Tuesday 26 July 2022 and Thursday 28 July 2022 0700 - 0830 UTC or 1300 - 1430 UTC Registration is now open for 'Getting Started with Advocacy for Digital Preservation' training which will be delivered in two short instructor-led blocks on 26th and 28th July, with timing options designed to be suitable for attendees around the world. Open to all, and free to attend for DPC Members, this workshop comprises a series of presentations, interactive workshops and self-study. Aimed at helping...
Digital Preservation Awards 2022 Finalists Announced: International Council on Archives Award for Collaboration & Co-operation
The next set of finalists for the prestigious Digital Preservation Awards 2022 is revealed today, with two exceptional projects being recognised for their collaborative achievements. Finalists for the International Council on Archives (ICA) Award for Collaboration and Co-operation are (in no particular order): Kickstart Cymru: Enhancing digital preservation capacity in Wales ARCHIVER - Archiving and Preservation for Research Environments Read more about the Digital Preservation...
Preserving and sharing the Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert photographic collection
The University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums has acquired, preserved, catalogued and shared online the photographic archive of the internationally significant Scottish photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert (b.1969). This includes the preservation of 900,000 (20TB) images, fully integrated with an additional 100,000 physical collection items. The work marks a step change in the scale and ambition of our digital preservation capacity and commitment, demonstrating that libraries and museums at...
Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema: the digital and archival legacy
The deposit of the archive of the experimental film-maker Stephen Dwoskin at the University of Reading’s Special Collections in 2013 represented a major challenge and an opportunity for archivists and researchers that has had an impact institutionally and methodologically for the sector.
Professional archives and records education for the 21st Century
Aberystwyth University has been providing post-graduate education for those starting careers as archives and records professionals since the mid-1950s, the normal route into the profession, with a dedicated master’s course located in the Department of Information Studies (DIS) since the early 1990s. The current MA in Archives and Records Management (ARM) is offered both full-time on campus and by distance learning for those already in paid or volunteer roles in a relevant organisation. The...
Learning through doing: building digital preservation skills in Wales
The Learning through doing digital preservation project used the communication technologies to share skills and build knowledge through two initiatives:
PREMIS Data Dictionary and related resources
At the turn of the millennium no clear digital preservation metadata recommendation existed. Various element sets had been released by different organizations, but all served different scopes and purposes. By 2002 it became clear that a central Preservation Metadata Framework could significantly benefit the community and give it a lingua franca, not only allowing us to build interoperable workflows but also to better compare preservation processes. This preservation metadata should include, in...
iPres 2022 Call for Contributions Now Open
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Contributions for iPres 2022 is now open! We invite original contributions that will develop the theory and practice of digital preservation.
Breaking down barriers with DiAGRAM
David is a senior digital archivist at The National Archives in the UK. Original development With DiAGRAM (the Digital Archiving Graphical Risk Assessment Model) we are trying to break down barriers to digital preservation in two ways: firstly, to help archivists make progress with digital preservation by showing them which interventions will have the greatest impact in reducing the risks to their digital materials; secondly by making sure that the tool itself does not present barriers...
Upskilling and upscaling: digital preservation at the Houses of the Oireachtas Library
Kate McCarthy is Special Collections Librarian and manager of digitisation projects at the Houses of the Oireachtas Library It’s late in the evening. Do you know where your children are? And by children of course I mean all those digital files you’ve happily brought into existence in recent years. The documents, images, and datasets. The hundreds of thousands of tiffs, jpegs, pdfs, mp3s, mp4s and xml files. Are they under the supervision of a digital preservation system? Hanging...
BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS with CSC Climate negative / zero Carbon data center
Veli-Antti Leinonen is a Specialist at the Kajaani Data Center Program, CSC IT Center for Science in Finland In order to secure the digital preservation in long term, the preservation MUST be ecologically on a solid foundation. Otherwise, the data can’t be preserved in the future if it consumes too much of earth’s resources. Non-sustainable preservation will eventually lead into data loss or intentional deletion of data. This is comparable to subject that organizations need to be on a...
OAIS: Isn’t that a British rock band with delusions of grandeur? Breaking down barriers by sharing knowledge
Carey Garvie is Project Officer, Digital Archives Innovation and Research at the National Archives of Australia After a hectic September of virtual conferences and opportunities to connect and share stories about how the National Archives of Australia does digital preservation with the broader community, I finally got a chance to sit back and start writing our blog for World Digital Preservation Day 2021 (WDPD2021). Reflecting on the theme of ‘Breaking Down Barriers’ and making...
Digitisation and digital preservation practice – making archives available and keeping it accessible (part 2)
Rosemary Grace Bruce-Mullins is Committee Member and Member of the Research Team at the Wentworth Historical Society Inc, Australia As a local History Society member digital preservation of records provides a multitude of benefits. An experience where the local town hall, that housed the history society collection, was firebombed, and thankfully saved, made us aware of the reality of losing the collection, and all the information it contained.
Digitisation and digital preservation practice – making archives available and keeping it accessible (part 1)
Karuna Bhoday is Program Manager, Integrated Archival Management System Program at National Archives of Australia. The National Archives of Australia ensures that Australian Government information of enduring significance is identified, secured, preserved and accessible for future generations. To continue to meet our vision of being world leading archive in this digital age and to fulfil our functions now and into the future a high priority for the National Archives is to embed...
Ethics of Access: Technology Watch Guidance Note available for Member preview
The DPC has released the next in its series of Technology Watch Guidance Notes on Access to digital collections. The new Guidance Note entitled Exploring ethical considerations for providing access to digital heritage collections by Lisa Smith, Jenny Wood, Greg Oakes and Madalyn Grant, is available as a one-month DPC Member preview from today.
iPres2021 registration deadline extended and fee reduced
With the support of the international preservation communities, preparation for the iPres2021 (http://ipres2021.ac.cn/)conference in Beijing are well underway. After the submission of international contributions and peer-review procedures, experts and authors from the United States, Germany, Britain, France, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Indonesia, China and other countries will give about 70 professional reports during the conference...