Digital Preservation Seeds

by Barbara Sierman

ENUMERATE 2017 and digital preservation

November 5, 2017

A new version of the ENUMERATE survey results was just published with a separate report on the Dutch results. The ENUMERATE survey monitors the digitization activities in memory institutions in Europe, whereby memory...

A new version of the ENUMERATE survey results was...

Certification changes: basic becomes core in the CoreTrustSeal

September 15, 2017

There is a new organization in the certification world for digital repositories: CoreTrustSeal.The new organization is replacing the original Data Seal of Approval community (consisting of a General Assembly, peer reviewers...

There is a new organization in the certification...

OAIS and the KB Web Collection history

September 5, 2017

The Open Archival Information System (OAIS) values the (future) user of the digital archive very much. This “Designated Community” of the archive need to be served by extra information about the archived material in...

The Open Archival Information System (OAIS)...

The benefits of certification

July 3, 2017

Under the umbrella of the Network Digital Heritage (NDE), a Dutch working group focused on certification. I reported earlier on their results. Following the European Framework of Certification (the website is not...

Under the umbrella of the Network Digital...

A new Board for the Core Certification now established

May 30, 2017

What was called the “basic certification” in the pyramid of standards for certifying your digital repository, will now be called “Core Certification”. This is not the only outcome of merging the Data Seal of Approval...

What was called the “basic certification” in...

The Dutch extension to the 4C Cost Model for Digital Preservation

May 10, 2017

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="205"] The Beggar (Rijksmuseum)[/caption]Based on the 4C Cost Model for Digital Preservation, a dedicated working group in the Network Digital Heritage created and validated an...

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A broken bridge between archivists and IT?

May 6, 2017

How do you build a bridge between thorough domain knowledge of a digital archivist and the sophisticated technical skills of an Information Technology expert, in order to achieve mutual goals and develop a “culture of...

How do you build a bridge between thorough domain...

SCAPE Preservation Policies continued

April 4, 2017

This week we launched a Dutch translation of the Catalogue of Policy Elements as Duurzaamheidsbeleid , a wiki on the website of the National Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD).The original Catalogue was...

This week we launched a Dutch translation of the...

Whitts cure for preservationists despair?

February 3, 2017

[caption id="attachment_500" align="alignleft" width="200"] A cure for preservation despair?[/caption]After Christmas I tried to reduce my digital pile of recent articles, conference papers, presentations etc. on digital...

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Preservation Watch: suggested change in OAIS review

December 27, 2016

As a late Christmas present I submitted a change for the OAIS review by suggesting to introduce the term Preservation Watch into the standard as part of the Preservation Planning module.During the European project...

As a late Christmas present I submitted a change...

Two Dutch DPC Preservation Awards: what is it all about?

December 11, 2016

Accompanied by traditional festival tunes of Scottish bagpipes the finalists of the 2016 Digital Preservation Awards and their colleagues “celebrated digital preservation”, as William Kilbride called this event last week...

Accompanied by traditional festival tunes of...

OAIS: a cage or a guide?

December 3, 2016

Last week I gave a presentation at the Pericles conference Acting on Change: New Approaches and Future Practices in LTDP in London. This is what I told during the panel about OAIS.OAIS as a cage?Is the OAIS standard a cage,...

Last week I gave a presentation at the Pericles...

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