Digital Preservation Seeds

by Barbara Sierman

In memory of Clifford Lynch († april 2025)

April 29, 2025

Recently Clifford Lynch, director of CNI, passed...

Recently Clifford Lynch, director of CNI, passed...

Into the future: my poster at iPRES2024

September 12, 2024

For iPRES 2024 my poster Into the future was accepted. This blog post is intended to give some background information.As some of you might know, I’m preparing a book about the origins of digital preservation. My curiosity...

For iPRES 2024 my poster Into the future was...

Where are you, digital preservationist?

August 17, 2023

Once upon a time, there was a lively digital preservation community, sharing knowledge and expertise via social media and by personal meetings. Then there came a pandemic. No drinks together, no conferences, no...

Once upon a time, there was a lively digital...

iPRES2022 and “The Book”

September 29, 2022

During iPRES2022 in Glasgow, I presented my plan to write a book about 30 years of digital preservation in the poster session....

During iPRES2022 in Glasgow, I presented my plan...

Let thistles (oops… digits) flourish

February 16, 2022

Hated by farmers but loved by the Scots. Thistles are the national emblem of Scotland, the home of iPRES2022 in September of this year in Glasgow. At billboards, pubs, banknotes and coins, the thistle will be everywhere in...

Hated by farmers but loved by the Scots. Thistles...

Re-use in Blue-Cloud

February 15, 2022

Last week I was invited to be a member of the Jury of the Blue-Cloud Hackathon. The Blue-Cloud project is one of the projects promoting the potential of Open Science, as part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). In...

Last week I was invited to be a member of the...

DP Reading Club

November 4, 2021

Is digital preservation a profession? And if so, what characterizes it as a profession? If you look at a skilled carpenter, the professionalism is defined by the skills of the carpenter, the tools that are used, the...

Is digital preservation a profession? And if so,...

Angela Dappert 1961-2021

August 1, 2021

Re-use, the ultimate test

April 28, 2021

This blogpost was given as a lightning talk at iDCC 2021 and was prepared by Ingrid Dillo (DANS) and me. We want to draw your attention to an overlooked element in the open research data and the preservation infrastructure:...

This blogpost was given as a lightning talk at...

Behind the review proces

February 17, 2021

There are several ways to get certified, but currently we see that the CoreTrustSeal is the most popular. With 104 repositories certified, according to their website. And more to come as, for example the EU supports the...

There are several ways to get certified, but...

UNESCO & preservation

November 9, 2020

Recently UNESCO’s Memory of the World program organized an interesting webinar called “Documentary Heritage at Risk: Policy Gaps in Digital Preservation”. As preservationists we can use every support to spread the word...

Recently UNESCO’s Memory of the World program...

Preservation pleasures on YouTube

October 8, 2020

I was worried that the DP community would not be updated on the latest developments due to the postponement of iPRES2020 and PASIG. But last week’s online conference #wemissiPRES was an excellent opportunity to hear all...

I was worried that the DP community would not be...

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