POSTED BY Richard Davies at 16:11, 4 October 2007
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TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images) has just published updated versions of An Introduction to Digital Preservation and Establishing a Digital Preservation Strategy.From the TASI Lightbox Blog:
“Digital preservation is a broad term used to describe the continued accessibility and maintenance of a digital resource safeguarding it into the future. Digital preservation is a vital part of the creation and management of any digital collection, and both these documents are essential reading for anyone embarking on a digitisation project.” |
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POSTED BY Richard Davies at 15:46, 4 October 2007
The Digital Lives Research Project has recently launched a new website and blog.
Digital Lives is an incredibly interesting project, designed to provide a major pathfinding study of personal digital collections. It is so interesting in fact, that two of the LIFE Project team (Rory McLeod and Paul Wheatley) are on the Digital Lives project team.
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POSTED BY Richard Davies at 15:11, 4 October 2007
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Salary £8,454-£10,581 p.a. for 18 hours per week.
Fixed term for 12 months, Based at the British Library
A fantastic opportunity exists for a Project Assistant to provide administrative and research support for the project team and international advisory board. The successful candidate will be involved with assisting with planning, budgeting, report creation and helping to ensure that the project meets its stated objectives. |
Candidates must have the ability to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint, good planning skills, experience of supporting projects and the ability to work with a range of stakeholders, both internally and externally.
This position is based at the British Library’s site at St Pancras. The days of work can be mutually agreed and a flexi time system is in operation. Benefits of employment include a career average pension scheme and 22 days annual leave pro rata on appointment.
If you would like an informal discussion about this post, please contact me (Richard Davies) on +44 (0) 20 7412 7182 or richard.davies at bl.uk
Further information on the project is available at the main project site. To apply for this position, please apply online at www.bl.uk/erecruitment
Cosing date: 17 October 2007
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POSTED BY Richard Davies at 12:06, 28 September 2007
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POSTED BY Richard Davies at 10:33, 28 September 2007
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Yesterday evening the LIFE Team attended the 2007 Conservation Awards at the British Museum. LIFE was one of five projects shortlisted for the Digital Preservation Award which recognises, “leadership and practical advancement in the digital preservation arena.”
Congratulations to The National Archives which won the award for DROID and PRONOM. |
Update: The 2007 Conservation Awards newsletter (Dispatch) has now been released from the main website, it contains summaries of all the projects involved in the awards.
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POSTED BY Richard Davies at 15:43, 24 September 2007
The latest issue of “What’s new in Digital Preservation” from the DPC/PADI, is now available. It includes a brief update on LIFE.
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POSTED BY Richard Davies at 10:40, 11 September 2007
LIBER have recently launched their new website which contains a page on the LIFE Project. We presented a paper to the LIBER Conference in Warsaw this year, and I will also be presenting at the LIBER Digitisation Workshop in Copenhagen next month (24 October).
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POSTED BY Paul Wheatley at 15:46, 7 September 2007
Interesting blog post and discussion by David Rosenthal referring to an SDSC paper on Disk and Tape Storage Models given at Archiving 2007.
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POSTED BY Richard Davies at 15:48, 8 August 2007
This is the blog for the LIFE (Lifecycle Information for E-literature) Project.
It will be used by the project team to keep you updated on how the project is progressing, as well as other digital preservation news that might be of interest.
There is a RSS Feed for the blog (as well as one for comments) to make things easier.
Please feel free to add comments or to contact us directly if you’re interested in the project.
Richard Davies
LIFE Project Manager
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