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Vacancy for Project Archivist, Metadata Support at University of Oxford
26 February 2024
Oxford
£32,332 - £38,205 per annum
Fixed Term
Vacancy for Project Archivist (Cataloguer) at University of Oxford
20 February 2024
Oxford
£32,332-£38,205 (per annum)
Fixed Term
Vacancy for Web Archive Technical Lead at British Library
3 March 2024
St Pancras / Boston Spa
£51,188 - £65,833 (STP) / £47,250 - £61,895 (BSP)
Full-Time
The Digital Preservation Coalition welcomes National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences as its newest member
Added on 5 February 2024
附中文翻译
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC) as its latest Associate Member. NSLC is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), founded in 1950 and formerly known as the Library of CAS, and has two branches in Chengdu and Wuhan. NSLC has a floor area of over 40,000 ㎡ and houses a collection of nearly 10 million volumes.
Landmark report shows scholarly content at risk
Added on 5 February 2024
Martin Eve of CrossRef has some sobering news for researchers. A recent analysis suggests that around a quarter of academic publications are not being preserved for the future.
Eve’s sample is based on the assessment of around 7.5 million of the e-books and articles for which CrossRef provides a fixed identifier, or Digital Object Identifier. These identifiers prevent ‘link rot’ so that, even if a URL changes, an article or book can still be cited and retrieved. But they’re not enough on their own because they only preserve the link not the destination. So, unless there’s a preservation service guaranteeing the content, the DOI will stop working if a publisher goes out of business or simply removes a title. Scholarly content needs to be preserved before it is deleted, not after.
Call for Papers | Museum Archives | Yale Center for British Art
Added on 1 February 2024
Prompted by the 2022 Society of American Archivists (SAA) publication of Museum Archives: Practice, Issues, Advocacy (ed. Rachel Chatalbash, Susan Hernandez, and Megan Schwenke), the Yale Center for British Art and SAA's Museum Archives Section are hosting a one-day symposium to examine the current position and future directions of the museum archives field. The symposium will be held in person at the Yale University Art Gallery and livestreamed online. We welcome proposals from new and established museum archivists, and their professional allies, that examine any aspect of the museum archives profession. Themes for consideration include, but are not limited to:
Vacancy for Digital Media Specialist (Our Screen Heritage) at the British Film Institute
22 February 2024
Berkhamsted/Hybrid working
£27,498-£29,880 per annum
Fixed Term
The Digital Preservation Coalition welcomes the Swedish Tax Agency as its newest member
Added on 30 January 2024
The Swedish Tax Agency has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Associate Member. Skatteverket, as the Swedish Tax Agency is known in Sweden, is the government organization tasked with the collection of national taxes and administering the population registration in Sweden. It plays a crucial role in ensuring the financial stability and functioning of the country. Within the agency the digital preservation team is dedicated to efficiently and accurately preserving petabytes of data.
Born Digital Cultural Heritage Now #BDCH23 – ACMI, Melbourne, Australia Nov/Dec 2023
The Born Digital Cultural Heritage Now #BDCH23 conference https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/bdch-23/ was held at ACMI in Melbourne, Australia from 29 Nov to 1 Dec 2023. It was a forum for researchers, practitioners, artists, historians, cultural theorists, and industry professionals to discuss the challenges of collecting, preserving, and accessing born digital cultural heritage material. Much born digital cultural heritage material such as media art, video games, web content, discussion forum and bulletin board posts, architectural documentation and other digital data created over the last twenty to thirty years is no longer accessible. This is the result of a range of technical and non-technical issues including hardware and software obsolescence, media deterioration, content abandonment, institutional and business decisions, archival practices, legal restrictions, and cultural and audience changes. The #BDCH23 conference focused on how these issues are being addressed in different contexts and the impact this loss on our culture and society.
Contract Opportunity for a Digital Preservation Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) - Jisc
19 February 2024
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