10 April 2008 - 12:00
A presentation by Douglas Elford and David Pearson and presented at the Innovative Ideas Forum, hosted by the National Library of Australia (10 April 2008). This paper talks about a Digital Preservation prototype database classifying and recording information about physical format materials.
Acknowledgement of Country
The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past and present – and through them to all Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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1 July 2008 - 12:00
An article by David Pearson and Colin Webb. This paper talks about the nature of file format obsolescence and a series of prototype questions designed by the National Library as a benchmark to help assess file format obsolescence. The article was published in the International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol 3, No 1 (2008).
Introduction
We know that in our information-obsessed world, change is everything. And yet some information is required to live beyond the moment; some information is valued beyond tomorrow’s headlines, and must be managed to be accessible, usable, and understandable in the long term.
Cycles of change in file formats impinge on even the most casual users of digital data. Technological change and format obsolescence are potentially major problems for every repository manager and data user. This is particularly true given the ever- increasing reliance on digital storage and distribution of information, the plethora of file formats, the dyn
18 September 2008 - 12:00
A presentation given by Douglas Elford and presented at the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Annual Conference (18 September 2008). This paper talks about a Digital Preservation prototype database classifying and recording information about physical format materials.
Acknowledgement of Country
The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past and present – and through them to all Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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1 November 2008 - 12:00
A presentation given by Douglas Elford and presented at the Museums Association of NSW Working Spaces 2 gathering at St Clements Monastary, Galong (1 November 2008). The presentation demonstrated methods for low cost image capture, cataloguing and digital asset management intended for small museums and historical societies.
Acknowledgement of Country
The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past and present – and through them to all Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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