NCDD
NATIONAL
COALITION for
DIGITAL
PRESERVATION
To ensure long-term access to digital data in the Netherlands.
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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
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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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"Taking care of invisible assets" - publication by Sound and Vision
13-11-2011
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has published a new book entitled "Taking care of invisible assets", edited by Annemieke de Jong. This book analyses the impact of digitization on long-term management of audiovisual collections. It contains both general viewpoints and best practices.
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NCDD-symposium: "NCDD mag best wat feller worden" (#hvog)26-01-2012
De opkomst was indrukwekkend. Meer dan 160 aanmeldingen, zo’n 140 echte bezoekers – dat betekent dat het onderwerp leeft.Continue reading
How to measure success - and work on weaknesses (Austin PASIG, 7)
16-01-2012
As David Giaretta (Alliance for Permanent Access) would put it: “Measuring success in digital preservation is easy – if we have a 100 years or more.” But of course we are an impatient bunch, and funders especially want to know that their money is making a real difference. And yet, in an emerging field such as digital preservation it is not easy to develop objective and measurable quality criteria. David Giaretta himself came forth at the conference to present a European framework project which is building a three-tiered approach to certification of trusted digital repositories for digital preservation: from the light-weight instrument Data Seal of Approval (which was developed separately by the Dutch DANS archive), on to self-assessment and ending in a fully-fledged third-party audit based on ISO standards.
But the question remains: what can you measure objectively? Giaretta’s approach revolves around metadata: each digital object must contain enough representation information (information about everything you need to use the object: hardware, software and, e.g., vocabularies) to enable the designated community (the clients) to use the information (see OAIS for terminology). In principle, Giaretta said, this is testable.Continue reading