Made it to Melbourne for #bdch23
Looking forward to catching up, hearing the discussions and presenting with @matthewpburgess on how we've been working with our digital carriers at @statelibrarynsw
Interested in software preservation and emulation in Australia? Join us for a 1h zoom on #WDPD23 (2 Nov, 2 pm Melb time) as 4 researchers & GLAM pros show some of their work using #AusEaaSI, followed by Q&A w @CyndeMoya, me, & @AARNet lead, Adam Bell.
The Federal government has promised improved funding for our national cultural institutions. It's high time they abolished the efficiency dividend on them too - it's a policy long past its use by date, as @Joshua_Black97 , @fbongiornoanu and I argue here: theconversation.com/australi…
Breakfast brought to you today by 'media inside paper files' for #BitListBakeOff Don't forget what might be lurking in your physical archives! Happy World Digital Preservation day. #WDPD2022
Please join Robin Wright, Head of DPC Australasia & Asia-Pacific and I today at lunch to chat all thing digipres. We will try and find a quiet spot at the back of room 3. #HereWeAre2022 @ausarchivists @dpc_chat
And a takeaway of Lauren Curless' talk for me was the need to consider people's personal-professional identity when managing the change/training staff in working with born-digital #HereWeAre2022
Very interesting to hear that the born-digital component of Professor Stephen Hawking's archive has not been acquired with the paper based component 😟 #HereWeAre2022
If we want to preserve and describe born-digital collections, key metadata needs to be captured at the time of transfer. There is no going back later, even after 5 years the knowledge is lost.
Michaela Hart speaking about the need to consider the preservation of humanity if we are to consider preserving collections for 500 years #HereWeAre2022