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Staff Report
Allaina’s Conference Report
Persistence of Memory: Stewardship of Digital Assets
This two-day conference was held November 28 – 29 in
Here are some presentations of note:
The opening speaker, Liz Bishoff (Special Assistant to the Dean and Head of the Office of Sponsored Programs at CU-Boulder) was unable to attend. Her talk, “That All-Important Metadata”, was given by another faculty member. Topics covered included PREMIS, METS, and the differences between what has traditionally been done and what is now being implemented in the digital age.
Tom Clareson of PALINET - "Surveying Digital Preservation Readiness: Assessing Risks and Good Practices for Digital Collections". This talk focused on protecting the digital assets and preparing for disasters.
Robin Dale (UC –
Kirsten Neilsen, California Digital Library, presented a case study, “Ingest in Time: Getting Content into a Repository”. (She also presented for Liz Bishoff.) This was interesting because it explained to librarians and archivists why and how digital repositories might serve their communities. This has been an issue at many of the conferences and workshops I have attended, and this session spoke well to the two groups in a common language.
The final presentation was given by Jim Gemmell, Microsoft Next Media Research Group. “MyLifeBits” was described as “an experiment in lifetime storage” and is a software system being developed by Microsoft that will allow users to capture, store, organize and retrieve “everything” about their lives in a digital format. Some actual practical uses would be for people who are the institutional memory of their organizations. Instead of searching for those materials in their office after spending many, many years creating materials, putting them in several boxes and donating them to an archives collection – instead of all of that paper -- there would only be a hard drive of materials to account for, theoretically already stored and organized. This is still in development; although, there was an interesting demo of what they’ve done to date.
Some questions and thoughts:
v Where does NSIDC fit into all of this digital asset management? where do we stand as an evolving data center – internally and externally?
v NSIDC should be presenting at these meetings as well, not just within the science data communities.
v How should I respond to questions about PREMIS and NSIDC’s role?
v Does NSIDC have a digital disaster plan?
v The time is now for the collaboration between traditional library repositories and digital data repositories.
v Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) vs. Certified Data Centers – what is the difference if there is any?
Another NEDCC Stewardship of Digital Assets workshop will be coming up next year. This two day workshop will be more of a hands on practicum to help plan for the preservation of digital assets. This workshop is being offered at three different locations in the country.Policy Reminders, etc.
If you use the library after hours, please remember to restart the computer, turn off the lights and close the door when you leave.
New Items in the Library
Journals and Reports
EOS, v. 88, iss. 46, 47
Image #27
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