Policies: necessary and beneficial
The enormous growth of digital data will require memory organizations to develop a clear vision about their role in caretaking a fair piece of this data cake, with respect to their mission and goals....
View ArticleThou shall not delete …
In the Netherlands we recently had an unpleasant affair in the scientific world. It became clear that a famous professor in social sciences based his publications and conclusions on faked data. This is...
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BVIM and digital preservation policies
Toy clock Digital 350 computer Organizations must evaluate their activities and show the relevancy of them to their funders. It is no exception that organizations like libraries and archives are...
View ArticleToo early for audits?
I never realized that the procedure of getting to an ISO standard could take several years, but this is true for two standards related to audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories....
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nestor Preservation Policy guideline (as yet: for German readers only)
People who can read the German language should have a look at the recent publication of nestor, the German digital preservation coalition, about creating an institutional preservation policy, or...
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Preservation Policies & Maturity levels
Recently at the iPRES 2014 conference in Melbourne I gave a presentation on the SCAPE Preservation Policies. Not only I explained the SCAPE Preservation Policy Model , but I also summarized my...
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Crystal clear digital preservation: a management issue
Raising awareness for digital preservation was a frequently used phrase when I started in this field ten years ago (never regretted it, hurray!). We preservationists have made progress. But the story...
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Developments in Preservation Policies
Often it is unclear whether results from European projects have any follow-up after the project is finished. If so, how can one monitor this? With regard to our work in SCAPE, including the Catalogue...
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Whitts cure for preservationists despair?
A cure for preservation despair? After Christmas I tried to reduce my digital pile of recent articles, conference papers, presentations etc. on digital preservation. Interesting initiatives (“a pan...
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SCAPE Preservation Policies continued
This week we launched a Dutch translation of the Catalogue of Policy Elements as Duurzaamheidsbeleid , a wiki on the website of the National Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD). The original...
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ENUMERATE 2017 and digital preservation
A new version of the ENUMERATE survey results was just published with a separate report on the Dutch results. The ENUMERATE survey monitors the digitization activities in memory institutions in...
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Open Preservation Foundations new Strategy
There are several member organizations active in digital preservation. Knowing their position in the preservation landscape will help preservationist to decide which of them fits best to their needs...
View ArticlePolicies: necessary and beneficial
The enormous growth of digital data will require memory organizations to develop a clear vision about their role in caretaking a fair piece of this data cake, with respect to their mission and goals....
View ArticleThou shall not delete …
In the Netherlands we recently had an unpleasant affair in the scientific world. It became clear that a famous professor in social sciences based his publications and conclusions on faked data. This is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BVIM and digital preservation policies
Toy clock Digital 350 computer Organizations must evaluate their activities and show the relevancy of them to their funders. It is no exception that organizations like libraries and archives are...
View ArticleToo early for audits?
I never realized that the procedure of getting to an ISO standard could take several years, but this is true for two standards related to audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories....
View ArticleClik here to view.
nestor Preservation Policy guideline (as yet: for German readers only)
People who can read the German language should have a look at the recent publication of nestor, the German digital preservation coalition, about creating an institutional preservation policy, or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Preservation Policies & Maturity levels
Recently at the iPRES 2014 conference in Melbourne I gave a presentation on the SCAPE Preservation Policies. Not only I explained the SCAPE Preservation Policy Model , but I also summarized my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Crystal clear digital preservation: a management issue
Raising awareness for digital preservation was a frequently used phrase when I started in this field ten years ago (never regretted it, hurray!). We preservationists have made progress. But the story...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Developments in Preservation Policies
Often it is unclear whether results from European projects have any follow-up after the project is finished. If so, how can one monitor this? With regard to our work in SCAPE, including the Catalogue...
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