NCDD

NATIONAL
COALITION for
DIGITAL
PRESERVATION

Mission statement
To ensure long-term access to digital data in the Netherlands.
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Flanders establishes Digital Preservation Platform
24-04-2012

On 19 April 2012 more than fifty institutions from Flanders (Dutch-language Belgium) have decided to establish a Digital Preservation Platform (Platform Digitale Duurzaamheid; website in Dutch).

The Platform aims to:

  • increase awareness of digital preservation issues;

  • clarify roles and responsibilities;

  • draw attention to the urgent need for infrastructure, services, instruments and financial means;

  • broker agreements between memory institutions about selection for digital preservation and digitization;

  • collect and disseminate knowledge and expertise.

The Platform intends to present itself in more detail early June at the Cultuurforum 2012 in Turnhout (Belgium).

The Platform's chair is Inge Schoups of the Antwerp Municipal Archives; the secretary is Bart de Nil of FARO (bart.denil@faronet.be).

 

 

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Conference announcement: "Build a home for our digital memory"
06-12-2011

The NCDD is organizing a conference about the future of our digital memory on 24 January 2012, KB, National Library of the Netherlands

Registration is closed.

The mission of the NCDD is to establish an infrastructure for long-term access to digital documents, images, movies and research data in the Netherlands. The NCDD strives to build a nationwide network of facilities and services for organizations in the public sector (libraries, museums, archives, research centres).

In 2010 the NCDD published the results of its national digital preservation survey, A future for our digital memory. After some strategic choices had been made, the NCDD board established two working groups to start designing the national infrastructure.
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On policies, skills & organization - LIBER curation workshop (7)
15-05-2012

The LIBER curation workshop was all about partnering and outsourcing - but that still means that there are things libraries have to do themselves, no matter what types of partnerships they enter into: they must develop policies for curation, and in order to be able to do that they must have skills and knowledge, which is also required to supervise the partnerships and assess the results. Barbara Sierman of the Dutch KB tackled the issue of policies (slides here), also building on her work on policies in the European SCAPE project (intended to develop services for large-scale preservation actions that are carried out automatically). Barbara Sierman stressed that policies are by no means just "paper work": Clear and express policies are very beneficial to an organization, Barbara Sierman went on, because they ensure consistency and sustainability in managing your digital collections. They make an organization less vulnerable when there are staff and management changes, they enable the transfer of knowledge, they enable education programmes, they harmonize activities and they bring clarity in responsibilities.
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Stepping up to the task of preserving e-mail - LIBER curation workshop (6)
15-05-2012

Another "homeless" category of digital objects (see previous post) was the subject of a "best practice" lecture at the LIBER curation workshop: e-mail. Ivan Boserup reported on an initiative by the Danish National Library to start capturing e-mail correspondences that are or will become important for researchers of Danish history, the history of learning, etc. (slides here) To me the most interesting feature of this project is that a library takes the bold decision to start capturing e-mail content without all the organizational and technical issues surrounding e-mail having been solved.
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