PASIG in Austin, TX
December 21, 2011Myself , Mike Thuman and Jon Tilbury will be attending the upcoming Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting from January 11th through January 13th 2012, in Austin Texas. In addition Tessella is proud to be one of the inaugural sponsors of this event, as it moves into independent governance.
The PASIG event has proven to be a lively forum for the exchange of experience in building practical solutions to the digital preservation challenge. Attendees come from a variety of backgrounds including academia, memory institutions and the commercial sector. Tessella has been a long standing member of this community and we look forward to our continued participation as the transition is made to an independent group.
As part of the event I will be presenting at the Boot camp – A session aimed at new attendees and focused on providing an educational insight into the digital preservation domain. Tessella will also be discussing our pilot cloud service – Preservation as a Service (PaaS) as part of a session on cloud infrastructures.
Full event details including the agenda are available at the following link: http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/
We look forward to seeing you there in the New Year.
Mark Evans
Mark Evans joined Tessella in 1999 and has worked as a consultant supporting digital preservation programs for the past six years. In 2002, Mark was involved in the design, development and rollout of the UK National Archives Digital Archive, and played a key role in the development of the core data models including flexible and extensible metadata schemas.
In 2003 Mark moved to the USA to lead Tessella’s involvement in the Electronic Records Archives program (ERA) for the US National Archives and Records Administration; a consortium primed by Lockheed Martin. In August 2005 the team were successfully awarded the contract to deliver ERA though 2011. Mark has played a senior role since the beginning, providing subject matter expertise across many areas of the program including architecture, functional specification, preservation services, dissemination and data modelling. In addition to his work on ERA, Mark has worked with a number of major pharmaceutical companies providing consultancy services in requirements elicitation, and specification of digital archiving solutions.
Mark is currently leading Tessella’s archiving efforts in the USA.