Digital Preservation Seeds

by Barbara Sierman

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...

20 Years of Digital Preservation

October 30, 2016

During the preparations for iPRES 2016 the Programme Committee discussed the fact that exactly 20 years ago Preserving Digital Information. Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information was published. A...

During the preparations for iPRES 2016 the...

Experts bediscussiëren OAIS

September 30, 2016

Veertien Nederlandse en Vlaamse experts bespraken op uitnodiging van de NCDD hun dilemma’s bij de vertaling naar de praktijk van dé standaard in digitale duurzaamheid: OAIS (ISO 14721). Ze deelden een breed scala aan...

Veertien Nederlandse en Vlaamse experts bespraken...

“Visible data, invisible infrastructure” iDCC conferentie 2016

February 26, 2016

Deze blog verscheen ook op http://blog.kbresearch.nl/2016/02/26/visible-data-invisible-infrastructure-idcc-conferentie-2016/ Slechts 12% van data ontstaan bij onderzoek, gefinancierd door National Institutes of Health,...

Deze blog verscheen ook op...

Developments in Preservation Policies

February 13, 2016

Often it is unclear whether results from European projects have any follow-up after the project is finished. If so, how can one monitor this? With regard to our work in SCAPE, including the Catalogue of Policy Elements...

Often it is unclear whether results from European...

Interactive born-digital artworks and authenticity

January 17, 2016

Digital art objects are often presented as a very difficult category of digital objects to preserve. Recently a report of Cornell University Library documents their efforts to set up the “Preservation and Access Frameworks...

Digital art objects are often presented as a very...

iPRES 2015 in Chapel Hill

November 15, 2015

Audit, CD-ROMS, Emulatie, Ingest, OAIS en Web, dat waren in alfabetische volgorde de meest besproken onderwerpen tijdens de jaarlijkse conferentie iPRES 2016, die vorige week plaatsvond in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dit is...

Audit, CD-ROMS, Emulatie, Ingest, OAIS en Web,...

Let’s discuss OAIS!

October 21, 2015

Today our “gold standard” in preservation will have its own place on the Internet: the OAIS wikiSince its first publication the OAIS standard has become a crucial guidance in our digital preservation community. It...

Today our “gold standard” in preservation...

New colleagues in DP?

August 31, 2015

Lately one of our newspapers De Correspondent published an article by Marian Cousijn about people collecting art ‘that you cannot touch’ . Born digital art, like websites. They buy the website from the artist and...

Lately one of our newspapers De Correspondent...

Preparations for getting the certificate

August 10, 2015

In my last blog post I talked about the NCDD work package on Certification, a Dutch initiative in which 5 major memory institutions will get certified according to either DSA, or DIN (and in the future ISO 16363). One...

In my last blog post I talked about the NCDD work...

It’s getting serious: audit and certification

June 8, 2015

Last May the 3rd PTAB training for repository managers and potential auditors was given at the KB in the Hague in the Netherlands. The event was organized in collaboration with the National Coalition for Digital Preservation...

Last May the 3rd PTAB training for repository...

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