Following discussions at various conferences I am very pleased to have been invited to join the PREMIS editorial board. This is a great opportunity to push some of the advanced approaches and real experience encapsulated in SDB’s XIP schema into international standards.
One thing that has become clear to me recently is the great faith people place in the ability of the community to produce tools that can read any specified format should the “original application(s)” that supported this format no longer be available. At a superficial level, this faith appears to be based on sound evidence: [...]
Some people may have seen that David Rosenthal from Stanford has posted on his blog (http://blog.dshr.org/2010/12/puzzling-post-from-rob-sharpe.html) commenting on my previous post here. He makes a number of interesting points that I thought I should follow up on. Digital Preservation Architectures First of all he states that his main argument is not that formats don’t become [...]
At recent conferences there has been a lot of talk about whether formats really do become obsolete (see for example http://blog.dshr.org/2010/11/half-life-of-digital-formats.html) and thus whether the research that has taken place to address such obsolescence is actually needed? In this posting, I’ll address both these questions. Do formats become obsolete? To address the first question we [...]
I am delighted with the level of interest generated at the ECA conference in Geneva. Our customers were there in force with many giving talks and all acting as strong advocates of our solution. I received positive feedback on my paper on automating digital preservation processes, which I believe is essential in real large scale archives. Next [...]
It’s great to be planning for the SDB4 launch at the ECA conference in Geneva in April. The technical team are very excited about the flexibility that SDB4 gives and welcoming the feedback from existing and potential users.
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