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:
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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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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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.
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.