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A Career in Digital Preservation

Learn about the evolution of digital preservation, its challenges, and how organizations work together to curate and safeguard digital culture. Explore career possibilities in the field of digital preservation.

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A Career in Digital Preservation

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  1. A Career in Digital Preservation Lee Hibberd, Digital Preservation Manager

  2. 1925 National Library Act gave the Library the legal mandate to collect, care for and provide access to its collections • 2003, 2012 and 2013 legislation expands opportunities and responsibilities to preserve digital content

  3. What’s digital? • > 23 years of digitised content • Born-digital content from the 1980s • 32 million files • 400TB of storage >> 1PB in 2020 • Plus anything digitally published in the UK!!

  4. We have a lot in common • Maximising the benefits of the content we have • Meeting ethical and legal obligations to manage digital information e.g. financial, GDPR • A shared responsibility to create, curate and care for digital culture • We share threats…

  5. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C Clarke

  6. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C Clarke Once you’ve seen the same trick three times it ceases to be magic Me

  7. Opportunities and challenges for everyone

  8. Sustainability [content growth > cost reductions]

  9. Automation and Workflows [10K images per year > 10K images per day]

  10. Rescuing video tapes

  11. From a presentation from Richard Wright at the No Time To Wait 3 conference 25th October 2018 https://mediaarea.net/Events/2018-10-26_NoTimeToWait3/presentations/02.%20Richard%20Wright%20-%20Review%20of%20Audiovisual%20Preservation/Wright-NTTW3.pdf

  12. Improving governance and policy

  13. A future career??

  14. Digital Preservation Coalition Membership

  15. Full Members • The Bank of England • BibliothèqueNationale de Luxembourg • British Library (BL) • Cambridge University Library • The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) • Digital Curation Centre • European Central Bank • Jisc • Lloyds Banking Group • The National Archives • National Library of Scotland (NLS) • National Library of Wales (NLW) • National Records of Scotland (NRS) • The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) • Public Record Office Northern Ireland (PRONI) • Research Councils UK • Unilever Archives and Records Management • United Nations HQ • United Nations High Commission for Refugees • United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) • United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals • University of Glasgow • University of London • University of Oxford • University of Sheffield • Associate Members • Aberystwyth University, Department of Information Studies • Academic Preservation Trust • Archaeology Data Service (ADS) • The Archives and Records Association (ARA) • Bacardi-Martini Inc. • BBC • British Museum • BT • Channel 4 • Chester Beatty • DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services • Digital Preservation Network (DPN) • Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) • Durham University • EU Publications Office • Grosvenor Estate • Historic England • Historic Environment Scotland • HSBC • Imperial War Museums • International Atomic Energy Agency • Internet Archive • King's College London • Lancaster University • Leeds University Library • Library and Archives Canada • London School of Economics (LSE) Library • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine • Loughborough University • National Archives of Ireland • National Library of Ireland (NLI) • Open University (OU) • Parliamentary Archives • Portico • Portsmouth University • Qatar National Library • RBS Archives • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales • Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library • Royal Museums Greenwich • Scottish Council on Archives • Swansea University • Tate • Trinity College Library Dublin (TCLD) • UK Data Archive, Essex University (UKDA) • UK LOCKSS Alliance (UKLA) • University College Dublin • University College London • University of the Arts London • University of Bath Library • University of Birmingham, Library Services • University of Bristol • University of East Anglia • University of Edinburgh, Library and Collections • University of Hull • University of Kent • University of Liverpool • University of Manchester Library • University of Melbourne • University of Nottingham • University of Salford • University of St Andrews • University of Sussex • University of Warwick, Modern Records Centre • University of York Information Directorate • Wellcome Library • Welsh Government, Museums Archives and Libraries Division (MALD)

  16. Conclusion and thanks

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