EDUCAUSE | Digital Preservation

CNI Podcast: Digital Scholarship and the National Endowment for the Humanities - An Interview with Suzanne Lodato

gbayne — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:19:03 -0500

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.

Before coming to the NEH in 2007, Suzanne Lodato served at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as an associate program officer in the Scholarly Communications Program starting in June 2000. At the Mellon Foundation, she worked on a wide range of grants that spanned library technology, cataloging, electronic publishing, scholarly electronic resources, and research concerning current trends and issues in scholarly communication. Ms. Lodato is a founding member and vice-president of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). She has edited two WMA proceedings volumes, published a number of articles on song and song cycle analysis, and authored entries for The New Grove History of Music and Musicians (second edition), the Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism, and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Europe: 1914-2004. Ms. Lodato received a B.M. from San Jose State University, an M.A. from Hunter College, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

NY Times Article on Digital Preservation Features Berman

rmcdonal — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:27:43 -0500

This recent New York Times article on digital preservation features SDSC’s own Fran Berman.

See - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/technology/techspecial/09store.html?_r=1&sq=

PREMIS Metadata Tutorial Skypecast

rmcdonal — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:21:54 -0600

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 to Host Digital Preservation Spring Forum

rmcdonal — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:53:18 -0600

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

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka

gbayne — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:34:55 -0600

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.

Roger Schonfeld leads the research group at Ithaka, where he studies how new technologies are affecting academia and how the changes they bring can best be managed. Roger is the author of JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003), which examines business models for the shift to an online environment for scholarly texts by focusing on how JSTOR developed into a self-sustaining not-for-profit organization. He has also published The Changing Information Services Needs of Faculty (Educause Review, 2007), The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004) and the most comprehensive examination of the systemwide print book collection, “Books without Boundaries: A Brief Tour of the System-wide Print Book Collection,” Journal of Electronic Publishing, 2006. Other recent work has focused on the history and future of preservation and book survivability. Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

PREMIS Tutorial Feb 11, 2008 at UC San Diego

rmcdonal — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:27:13 -0600

PREMIS Metadata Tutorial: An Overview of the Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata with Implementation Case Studies

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.

The PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) Working Group was formed in June 2003 as an international group whose goal was to define a standard set of implementable, core preservation metadata, with guidelines and recommendations for management and use. The PREMIS Working Group released its Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata in May 2005. This developed into the first data dictionary for implementing preservation metadata and is now known as PREMIS.

The PREMIS data dictionary is the foundation by which Metadata can be generated to play a vital role in enabling the effective management, discovery, and re-usability of digital information. Preservation metadata provides provenance information, documents preservation activity, identifies technical features, and aids in verifying the authenticity of digital objects. PREMIS is a core set of metadata elements recommended for use in all preservation repositories regardless of the type of materials archived and the preservation strategies employed.

Agenda

This one day tutorial provides an introduction to PREMIS and its data model, a walk-through of the Data Dictionary, examples of PREMIS metadata in real situations, and implementation considerations, particularly using PREMIS with XML/METS. It includes an implementers' panel and will also provide an opportunity for participants to share their own implementation issues and experiences.

The workshop will be taught by Rebecca Guenther. Rebecca Guenther is Senior Networking and Standards Specialist in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress. She has worked at LC since 1980 in various positions and in her current position since 1989. Her current responsibilities include work on national and international information standards, primarily in the area of metadata. She is chair of the PREMIS Editorial Committee and was co-chair of the OCLC/RLG PREMIS Working Group which developed the PREMIS Data Dictionary.

Benefits of Attendance

This tutorial will benefit individuals and institutions interested in implementing PREMIS metadata for the long-term management and preservation of their digital information. Some basic knowledge of XML is presumed. This symposium will be of interest to librarians and archivists working with digital libraries or with other digital preservation initiatives.

Specific benefits of attendance include:

1. A better understanding of the infrastructure for reliable, sustainable digital preservation programs

2. A comprehensive view of information needed to support digital preservation

3. A beginning knowledge of the common data model for organizing and thinking about preservation metadata

4. Illustrative guidance for local implementations of PREMIS for preservation repositories

5. An understanding of the standard for exchanging information packages between repositories (to include metadata to support the preservation process)

6. An appreciation for how PREMIS might be used: as a basis for metadata definition in developing systems, as a checklist of metadata needs for existing repositories, or as a standard for exchange between partners.

Applied Case Studies

This tutorial will include a PREMIS implementers’ discussion panel that will provide applied perspectives on work being done at the Stanford University Libraries, the UC San Diego Libraries, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Registration

Registration Form

Cost of attendance will be $50 (free for UC attendees). Registration will close Monday January 14th 2008. Attendance will be limited to 40 participants so reserve your spot early. Payment can be made in the form of credit card or checks (checks must be payable to “UC Regents”)

For more information please see the PREMIS tutorial website http://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/premis.html

Tune In Dec. 19 for a Free Web Seminar on The Challenges of Digital Preservation

cluckett — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:12:31 -0600

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.

In this free December 19 EDUCAUSE LIVE! seminar, Challenges of Film, Video, and New Media Preservation, presenter Howard Besser, Director, NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Master's Degree Program, New York University, will discuss why moving image material is important and why it must be treated differently than material such as paper or still photography. He will then discuss why traditional conservation approaches will not be effective for video or new media works and suggest that we adopt new conservation paradigms for dealing with them. Besser will also point to more recent projects and studies that are likely to help academic libraries better deal with the older material in their collections and collect the rich set of material being created today.

Those unable to attend may wish to visit the archives after the event or browse related EDUCAUSE resources on Archiving, Digital Imaging, and Digital Preservation.

New Mailing List on Distributed/Federated Digital Preservation Strategies

rmcdonal — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:45:27 -0600

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

E07 Podcast: An Interview with Robert Renaud

kellywalker — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:03:50 -0600

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.

E07 Podcast: An Interview with Bruce Schneier

mpasiewicz — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:02:49 -0500

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.