Digital Preservation Seeds

by Barbara Sierman

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, 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...

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...

Document and preserve

May 7, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis had led to a more digitized world and as a consequence to more digital material that is of value to preserve. UNESCO has published an article “Turning the threat of COVID-19 into an opportunity for...

The COVID-19 crisis had led to a more digitized...

WARC, the best web archiving format?

April 18, 2020

Recently Google Scholar pointed me to an interesting pre-print about webarchiving. The authors Xinyue Wand and Zhiwu Xie raised the question whether we as web archiving community are using the “right” format when using...

Recently Google Scholar pointed me to an...

RDM and DP: Collaborating or Co-existing?

March 18, 2020

ResearchData Management (RDM) and DigitalPreservation (DP) communities: “do they really collaborate or are they onlyco-existing”? With this introduction, an interesting article starts,written by Michelle Lindlar,...

ResearchData Management (RDM) and...

Machines as Designated Community

February 27, 2020

What if theDesignated Community is a...

What if theDesignated Community is a...

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