Posts Tagged ‘Digital Preservation’
OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership planning committee have sponsored a two-day event Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration focused on strategies for effective collaboration. This event will be at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, on September 20-21, 2010. Eric Miller from Zepheira will be speaking on the power of global collaborations providing a critical take on the creation and maintenance of standards. The focus of this talk with be the sphere of common values collaboration including standards and policies for copyright and data aggregation, the commons and open data movements, and the practical application of these values in accelerating a web of Linked Data.
On 20 July 2010 in Arlington VA, Library of Congress held a Recollection workshop at the Digital Preservation Partners Meeting. The well-attended workshop featured an introduction to the digital preservation and access platform and a session where attendees could build Web applications with their own data within 30 minutes, and could showcase these to other workshop participants. Zepheira was in attendance as the developer of the Recollection platform and supporter of NDIIPP.
On 20 July 2010 in Arlington VA, Library of Congress held a Recollectionworkshop at the Digital Preservation Partners Meeting. Thewell-attended workshop featured an introduction to the digitalpreservation and access platform and a session where attendees couldbuild Web applications with their own data within 30 minutes, and couldshowcase these to other workshop participants. Zepheira was inattendance as the developer of the Recollection platform and supporter of NDIIPP.
The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure andPreservation Program (NDIIPP) is to develop a national strategy tocollect, preserve and make available significant digital content,especially information that is created in digital form only, for currentand future generations. In 2008, the NDIIPP partners shared contentthrough a simple web page. In order to explore more useful tools andprocesses for sharing diverse content across partners? collections, the Library began the Project Recollection Pilot in 2009 with Zepheira todevelop a proof of concept that can be used to collect and exploreinformation about digital collections.
The Library of Congress will hold the annual Digital Preservation Partners Meeting July 20 – 22, 2010 in Arlington, VA. Themes include “Collaboratives”, “Information Environment” and “Expanding the Archive”. A half day workshop will be held on Recollection, a project with the U.S. Library of Congress and the National Digital Information Infrastructure Partner Program (NDIIPP) designed to enhance discoverable access for NDIIPP collections, making them easier to find, access, and share, and especially to integrate with other digital information sources. Zepheira has worked in partnership with the Library since 2009 to design and build the Recollection platform.
Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, Museums and the Web reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Eric Miller from Zepheira will be attending this meeting and participating in the invitational only Wikimedia@MW2010 workshop. This workshop is designed to bring together leaders in the museum industry, Wikimedia Commons effort and Web community to examine for greater synergy between the museum sector and Wikimedia efforts. Specifically this workshop will address rules, guidelines and examples that can be clarified to order to promote active engagement between the two communities. Read more
Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, and Eric Miller, President of Zepheira will co-present a poster session and demo at the 2009 European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL)held in Corfu, Greece from 27 September through 2 October, 2009. The general theme of this year’s conference is “Digital Societies”. Read more
The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is an effort funded by the US Library of Congress to develop a national strategy to collect, archive and preserve the burgeoning amounts of digital content for current and future generations. It is based on an understanding that digital stewardship on a national scale depends on active cooperation between communities in public and private sectors. The Library has built a preservation network of over 130 partners from across the nation to tackle the challenge, and is working with them on a wide spectrum of initiatives including collections of historical, scientific, cartographical, media, legislative and sociological materials.
Laura Campbell, chief information officer of the US Library of Congress, is featured in “Bye, Tech: Dealing With Data Rot”, a segment on the CBS Sunday Morning television program, March 1, 2009. In the program David Pogue reported on the dangers of data loss–”what happens when technological progress leaves your most precious memories and recordings behind.” He also interviewed experts on digital preservation, including the discussion with Campbell, regarding the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.