On Monday, October 24, I’ll be giving a webinar on core issues in digital preservation for METRO, a library services group in New York. The presentation gives a framework for critical thinking about digital preservation, rather than giving a list of interesting acronyms and specific technologies.
The webinar actually starts with a trip back in time through the decipherment of Linear B, so show how the issues at stake in digital libraries are not foreign to our profession. Instead, I suggest that they are substantially the same issues, presenting themselves in a new technology and media. From there, we turn to some of the specific quirks of digital media, formats, and encodings, and wrap up with a little discussion of timelines – waht matters today? what matters in the incipient fututre? what can I leave for some future generation of archivists?
I have presented versions of this material before, and the feedback has been positive, especially for librarians and archivists who need to have digital preservation in their planning, but don’t have a degree in computer science. I hope you’ll tune in. Registration and information about related events here:http://www.metro.org/en/cev/109