Digital Preservation

This 17 minute podcast features an interview with Suzanne Lodato, Director of the Division of Preservation and Access for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Our conversation was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Today's (Feb 11, 2008 9am - 5pm) PREMIS Metadata Tutorial being held at the University of California, San Diego will be broadcast with live audio via skypecast. To join this skypecast go to https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=3841334

To find out more about the tutorial please see - http://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/premis.html

If you want to follow along with the course materials you can go to

http://pigpen.lib.uchicago.edu:8888/pigpen/41

You will need to log in:

username: linus

password: lucy

NISO is sponsoring a forum on digital preservation titled Digital Preservation Forum: Planning Today for Tomorrow’s Resources. It is a very interesting agenda see http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/digpres08/agenda.html

In this 18 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka, an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide.

February 11, 2008, 9:00-5:30

UC San Diego Geisel Library, Seuss Room, UCSD, La Jolla, CA

The UC San Diego Libraries, the California Digital Library, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the PREMIS Editorial Committee are sponsoring a tutorial on the PREMIS Data Dictionary Feb. 11, 2008 at the UC San Diego Geisel Library on the UCSD campus in La Jolla, CA.

Increasingly, moving images are part of students' daily lives. Students record scenes they witness on their pocket digital movie cameras, download clips from free movie sites, and create remixes and mashups. Students recognize something that many libraries don't—that moving images are one of the richest ways of capturing events and that they tell us an immense amount about the history of their time, as well as current culture and styles.

Many academic libraries have collections of film and video that have been a low priority to organize, catalog, and preserve. One reason for the backlog is that this type of material requires different ways of thinking about handling, preservation, and browsing.

The MetaArchive Cooperative has established a new mailing list for discussion of distributed/federated digital preservation issues and strategies. This list will work toward building cross-community relationships for a variety of federated digital preservation organizations.

I put this up earlier today and the list was not quite ready for subscription.

However, you can now subscribe at:
http://listserv.emory.edu/wa.exe?SUBED1=distributed-preservation-l&A=1

In this 16-minute podcast, we feature an interview with Robert Renaud, Vice President and CIO, Dickinson College He discusses the future of and challenges facing Enterprise Resource Planning systems as well as leadership in a time of change.

The attached recording provides coverage of a 14 minute interview with BT Counterpane's Bruce Schneier. Listen in as he shares some insightful words about privacy along with interesting commentary about ethics, cybersecurity and blogging. Don't forget the video (or audio) of his session in Seattle too.