Digital Preservation Seeds

by Barbara Sierman

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...

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...

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...

Digital Damage: Open Access Journals

October 6, 2020

“Open is not forever”, with this title Mikael Laakso, Lisa Matthias and Najko Jahn report about their investigation in disappearing open access journals from the public domain. Open access journals differ from their paid...

“Open is not forever”, with this title Mikael...

De Big Picture of het Grote Plaatje

June 3, 2020

Digitale duurzaamheid omvat een veelheid aan aspecten en het is voor een instelling niet eenvoudig keuzes te maken. Een valkuil bij het maken van keuzes is dat een instelling de kostenfactor doorslaggevend laat zijn. Maar...

Digitale duurzaamheid omvat een veelheid aan...

No conferences, no progress?

May 19, 2020

Now that several digital preservation related conferences have been cancelled or postponed to later this year of even to next year, we are faced with a problem. It is not the problem of the missed conference dinner, or the...

Now that several digital preservation related...

TRUST article in SCIENTIFIC DATA

May 18, 2020

Just published: our article on TRUST in the Springer journal Scientific Data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7...

Just published: our article on TRUST in the...

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