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Digital preservation: how are we doing as a community? - #iPRES2012 (7)
06-10-2012

The question as to how we are doing as a DP community was expressly posed by Paul Wheatley of Leeds University (and avowed digital preservation geek), but it was echoed in other presentations, panels and workshops throughout the conference. How are we doing as a community? Are we making good progress or getting stuck in old issues? Are we closing the gap between theory and practice? Are we pulling in knowledge and tools from other disciplines, especially IT? Are we getting things done? Obviously, these are no simple yes or no questions. But let me share some opinions with you that were voiced this week at iPRES2012 - by Inge Angevaare Chairs were hurried in to accommodate the last-arriving participants at Wednesday's plenary session .
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"Preservation is knowledge" revisited: promising work by the #SCAPE project - #iPRES2012 (6)
05-10-2012

Others said it yesterday at iPRES2012, and Christoph Becker of TU Wien and the SCAPE project reiterated it on Friday: much of preservation and preservation planning is about knowledge. Nobody can predict the future, but as a community we can get a lot better at harnessing all the knowledge that is out there, experiences from colleagues, successes and failures, emerging trends, etc. All that knowledge can help us weigh alternatives and make informed decisions about our collections.
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