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iPRES 2021: 3rd Call for Contributions
Submit your contributions to iPRES2021, Oct. 19-22, 2021. iPRES, or the International Conference on Digital Preservation, is the premier conference series on digital preservation. Since 2004 there have been annual iPRES conferences around the globe for the international digital preservation community to share their recent research, development projects, implementation efforts, and other practical experiences, and to enhance collaborations within the field and across the related domains.
iPRES 2021: 2nd Call for Contributions
Submit your contributions to iPRES2021, Oct. 19-22, 2021. iPRES, or the International Conference on Digital Preservation, is the premier conference series on digital preservation. Since 2004 there have been annual iPRES conferences around the globe for the international digital preservation community to share their recent research, development projects, implementation efforts, and other practical experiences, and to enhance collaborations within the field and across the related domains.
iPres Call for Hosts Extended until June 2021
In light of the global pandemic and, to allow time for proposals to plan for and incorporate options for hybrid or online conferencing, the iPres Steering Committee has taken the decision to extend the deadline for iPres host applications until June 2021. For those working on a proposal for the upcoming 10th December deadline, we appreciate your patience as we all navigate these unprecedented times. Deferring the submission deadline will provide an opportunity to consider how proposals...
Call for abstracts now open for PV2020 (Preserving and adding Value to data)
PV2020: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data - 2020 CERN - Geneva, Switzerland, May 12-14, 2020 Conference website: https://indico.cern.ch/event/838830/overview Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pv2020 Abstract registration deadline: January 31, 2020 Submission deadline: April 30, 2020 Topics: data and knowledge preservation adding value to data issues related to policy...
iPres 2019: Preserving the people in digital preservation
Elisabeth Thurlow is Digital Archives and Collections Implementation Manager at the University of the Arts London. She attended iPres2019 with support from the DPC's Career Development Fund which is generously funded by DPC supporters. A recurrent theme across many of the papers presented at this year’s iPres conference was the important role of people in digital preservation. Technology tends to dominate conversations around digital preservation, but for digital...
Finding the Cutting Edge in Common Formats
Elizabeth Kata is Digital Archives Assistant at the International Atomic Engergy Agency (IAEA). She attended iPres2019 with support from the DPC's Career Development Fund which is generously funded by DPC supporters. Placing a session with the title “Common Formats” under the theme “Cutting Edge” seemed at first contradictory as I looked over the iPRES 2019 program, but the four papers presented in this session demonstrated cutting edge work being done with and to...
Working together to reduce digital information at risk
Zhenxin Wu is Professor of the Information System Department, and Deputy Director of the Digital Preservation Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences at the National Science Library in Beijing, China. She is also responsible for the technical system and data archive for NDPP (National Digital Preservation Program). [Chinese version follows] ---From CCDP2019 to WDPD2019 and iPRES2020 Thanks to the invitation from DPC, I have an opportunity to be involved in World Digital...
iPres 2019: Making Emulation Accessible
Elisabeth Thurlow is Digital Archives and Collections Implementation Manager at the University of the Arts London. She attended iPres2019 with support from the DPC's Career Development Fund which is generously funded by DPC supporters. Emulation has a long history. So why has it taken so long to get emulation off the ground as a strategy for digital preservation? For many of us working in the field of digital preservation, emulation has often appeared a highly technical...
Open repositories: or how I learned to start worrying and hate jingoism
Disclaimer: I must state that the following blog-post is written in a personal capacity, airing opinions that are my own and are not intended to endorse a particular piece of software. They should not be considered official on behalf of my current employer, The University of Edinburgh. Last month, in June 2019, I attended the fourteenth Open Repositories (OR) conference held in Hamburg, organised by Hamburg University. Hamburg is a beautiful city, and this coincided with the Hamburg...
Archiving 2019 Registration Now Open!
The ARCHIVING 2019 team invites you to join them in Lisbon, Portugal at the Torre do Tombo National Archive (National Archives of Portugal) for Archiving 2019 to discuss the most pressing issues in the cultural heritage landscape related to the digital preservation of and access to 2D, 3D, and AV materials.
CFP: Joint Technical Symposium EXTENDED DEADLINE
PRESERVE THE LEGACY. CELEBRATE THE FUTURE. The CCAAA will hold its 2019 Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Hilversum, The Netherlands on October 3-5, 2019 JTS 2019 Call for Presentations As the first call was posted right before the holidays, and January is a rush for all, the JTS team have extended the deadlines for both JTS2019 and IASA50 by two weeks until February 22, 2019.
'What I Wish I Knew Before I Started', DPC and DRI Student Conference 2019 - Dublin
Presentations Sharon McMeekin, DPC Clare Lanigan, DRI Louise Kennedy and Padriac Stack, Dublin City Library and Archives Kieran O'Leary, IFI Event Description The DPC and the Digital Repository of Ireland, are pleased to invite students and new professionals in archives, records management and librarianship to a half day conference on practical workplace skills in digital preservation, sponsored by the ARA, IRMS and DPC...
'What I Wish I Knew Before I Started', DPC Student Conference 2019 - London
Presentations Sharon McMeekin, DPC Adrian Brown, Parliamentary Archives Edith Halvarsson, Bodleian Libraries Matthew Addis, Arkivum Glenn Cumiskey, British Museum Event Description The DPC with support from the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London, the ARA, the IRMS, and DPC Supporters, is pleased to invite students and new professionals in archives, records management and librarianship...
ICA Adelaide 2019: Call for Submissions
Theme: Designing the Archive Dates: 21 – 25 October 2019 (conference sessions Tuesday 22 to Thursday 24 October) Languages: English and French Designing the Archive is a joint conference of the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA), Archives and Records Association of New Zealand Te Huinga Mahara (ARANZ), International Council on Archives (ICA) and Pacific Regional Branch of the ICA (Parbica). Submissions platform and online form: Click here to submit your...
Taking Stock after 15 years Panel at iPres 2018
Colin Armstrong is a Disc Imaging Technician at the British Library and attended iPRES 2018 with support from the DPC's Leadership Programme which is generously funded by DPC Supporters One of the later sessions I attended at iPRES 2018 was the ‘Taking Stock after 15 years at iPres 2018’ panel session. The speakers on the Panel were Barbara Sierman (Digital Preservation Manager in the Research Department at the National Library of the Netherlands), Sheila Morrissey...
Web Preservation at iPRES 2018
Colin Armstrong is a Disc Imaging Technician at the British Library and attended iPRES 2018 with support from the DPC's Leadership Programme which is generously funded by DPC Supporters It is important to state fae the off that web preservation and internet archiving is not something I am particularly familiar with; so I was pleased to attend the morning paper presentations on web preservation and get tae grips with the terminology, learn about some practical theories in...
Museums and digital memory: from creation and curation to digital preservation
The British Museum’s National Programmes team, with the generous support of the Vivmar Foundation, is hosting a free one-day conference on Monday 3 September 2018 in partnership with the Digital Preservation Coalition, exploring the subject of digital content in museums. Conference Scope The UK museum sector is making increasingly creative use of digital technologies in the way it records and disseminates information about its collections. These technologies and advances in museum practice...
Final reminder: iPRES 2018 Final Call for Contributions - peer reviewed submissions due April 15
Come and celebrate the first 15 Years of iPRES, the premier international conference on digital preservation! The theme for iPRES 2018: where art and science meet: the art in science and the science in art - aims to broaden the voices and approaches participating in the conference. iPRES brings together a broad array of practitioners, researchers, educators, providers, students, and others to share lessons learned from engaging in digital preservation, including recent...
iPRES2018 - the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation will be co-hosted by Harvard and MIT!
The following is a guest post by the iPRES2018 Social Media Team. The interview was lead by Michelle Lindlar. iPRES - the International Conference on Digital Preservation - is without a doubt the biggest and most important conference of the year for everyone involved in digital preservation, curation and long-term data stewardship. The conference series has been bringing together researchers and practitioners from around the world for the past 15 years, with the conference locations...
What I Wish I Knew Before I Started - DPC Student Conference 2018
Event Description The DPC, with support from CoSector at the University of London, the ARA, IRMS, Arkivum, Preservica, and Mirror Web, is pleased to invite students, researchers and new professionals in archives, records management and librarianship to a one day conference on practical workplace skills in digital preservation. This conference will bring a select group of leading practitioners together with the next generation of archivists, records managers and librarians to discuss the...