News archive - articles before 2010

PARSE.insight report published

16-12-2009
The PARSE.Insight project published a report summarizing the results of several surveys conducted amongst stakeholders in research in Europe. Almost 2,000 people responded to the survey. The report gives insight into research in Europe. Major surveys were held within three stakeholder domains: research, publishing and data management.
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COAR establishes a global knowledge infrastructure

05-11-2009
The international Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) was launched in Ghent on 21 October, during Open Access Week 2009. The aim of the organisation is the networking of over 1000 global scientific repositories comprising peer reviewed publications under the principle of Open Access. This will be achieved by means of common data standards and the co-ordination of scientific research policy development. Coinciding with the sixth anniversary of the Berlin Declaration to provide “free and unrestricted access to sciences and human knowledge representation worldwide”, COAR takes responsibility for the execution of this vision in bringing together scientific repositories in a wider organisational infrastructure to link confederations across continents and around the globe in support of new models of scholarly communication.
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'Coalition' of coalitions

15-10-2009
During the recent iPRES-conference in San Francisco (live Dutch-language blogs from which were transmitted minutes after each session by the NCDD’s coordinator), a special meeting took place between all known national collaborative efforts in the field of digital preservation. In the photograph from left to right Inge Angevaare (Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation), Abigail Potter (US Library of Congress, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, NDIPP), Sabine Schrimpf (nestor, Germany), Martha Anderson (NDIPP) and William Kilbride (British Digital Preservation Coalition, DPC) met to discuss ways of strenghtening international cooperation in the field of permanent access. Of course contacts had been established long before the conference, but this was the first time the coalitions actually physically sat at one table together.
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NCDD conference endorses National Survey

28-09-2009
On 18 September 2009 the NCDD convened a national conference to discuss the results of the Dutch national digital preservation survey as published in the report A future for our digital memory. Some one-hundred representatives of digital data producing and archiving institutions came to The Hague, where they unanimously endorsed the results of the survey and the report. Questions remain, nevertheless, as to the course which should be taken to address the problems laid bare in the report. Conference participants called for pragmatism rather than high-level institutional solutions which take much time to yield results.
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NCDD publishes English summary of Dutch National Digital Preservation Survey

07-07-2009
The NCDD has prepared a twenty-page English-language summary of its interim report 'A future for our digital memory: permanent access to digital information in the Netherlands' on the results of the Dutch National Digital Preservation Survey which was conducted in the first half of 2009. The study concludes that proper curation of digital data in the Netherlands is still rather fragmentary. Well-known stakeholders such as the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, and the Nationaal Archief (National Archives) have made substantial progress in securing permanent access to the publications and data entrusted to them, but much information still eludes the archiving organisations. The report will be discussed at a (predominantly Dutch-language) national conference to be held in The Hague on 18 September. The report and the conference will inspire a strategic plan the NCDD will draw up at the end of 2009..
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Workshop curation for digital libraries

06-03-2009
Library budgets are tight and growing tighter . . .
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Data Seal of Approval acquires International Board and loses one guideline

03-02-2009
The Data Seal of Approval developed by Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) was the theme of an international workshop in The Hague on 30 January. DANS presented its ideas for an International Board to develop the Seal further. The very first meeting of the proposed Board caused the Seal to lose one guideline - which is exactly in line with the intended purpose of the Seal: it should be a lightweight instrument to introduce data producers and archives to thinking about the quality assurances needed to secure long-term access. Further information on the Seal is to be found in the powerpoint presentation by Henk Harmsen. Photograph: the proposed International Board: from left to right: (Henk Harmsen), Paul Trilsbeek (NL, MPI/CLARIN), Natascha Schumann (D, DNB/NESTOR), Olivier Rouchon (F, CINES), Mary Vardigan (USA, ICPSR), (Lisa de Leeuw), Hans Pfeiffenberger (D, AWI, IPYDLE), Matthew Woolard (UK, UKDA/CESSDA), Laurents Sesink (NL, DANS/DARIAH). .
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DANS workshop on criteria for trustworthy digital archives

24-12-2008
On 30th January 2009 Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) is organising an English-language workshop in The Hague entitled: ‘Towards Trusted Digital Archives for Social Science and Humanities Data’. ‘The workshop focuses on guaranteeing the quality and trustworthiness of digital archives for research data, in particular in the social sciences and humanities. Over the past few years various initiatives have attempted to formulate guidelines and/or best practices for a ‘trusted digital repository’, such as DRAMBORA, TRAC, NESTOR and the Data Seal of Approval (DSA). The central theme of this workshop is the applicability of these guidelines in the social sciences and humanities. What is needed to accomplish trusted digital archives and do the presently existing guidelines fulfill that need? Which issues are still missing? And how do we implement the guidelines? In this workshop de 17 DSA guidelines, which are specifically designed for data archives in the humanities and social sciences, will be taken as a starting point for the discussion.
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NCDD workshop permanent access to cultural heritage

14-11-2008
At the annual conference of Digital Heritage Netherlands (Rotterdam, 9-10 December), NCDD will organise a workshop on organisational aspects of permanent access: who is responsible? Will every museum and archive create its own digital repository? Or will everybody wait until a few large institutions take over? And who will pay for permanent access? The workshop will be in Dutch. More details at the DEN conference website.. .
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Permanent access to the records of science requires European coordination

13-11-2008
Researchers, research institutions, funding agencies, libraries and publishers agree that funding digital preservation and permanent access to the records of science must be organised at national, European and global levels. Such was the conclusion of the participants in the 2008 Annual Conference of the Alliance for Permanent Access on 4 November in Budapest. The theme was: Keeping the records of science accessible: can we afford it? Business models for permanent access. Alliance chair Keith Jeffery observed at the start of the conference that as access to scientific information is a common good, public funding is called for.
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DARIAH kick-off at Digital Archiving and Network Services (DANS)

23-10-2008
Higher yields of research budgets in the arts and humanities by efficiently exchanging data, views and research tools within the European Research Space. Those are the expected benefits of the European project Preparing DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) that will be set in motion following a meeting in The Hague (The Netherlands) on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 October. 'By storing them and keeping them available in a sustainable way, scholarly research data can be used many more times than just once, and for far more purposes. That’s an advantage.
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European high-level conference on costing permanent access

07-10-2008
The Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science, whose membership includes the NCDD, is organising a one-day conference to be held in Budapest on 4 November, entitled . . .
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Frisian newspaper best practice at LIBER conference

14-07-2008
At the preservation session of the recently held LIBER conference of European research and national libraries (1-5 July, Istanbul), Eddy van Noord of the Frisian newspaper "Leeuwarder Courant" presented his paper as the "best preserved and best disclosed newspaper in the world". Van der Noord described the remarkable public/private partnership which enabled the digitisation of the newspaper. He impressed his audience with his use statistics: since the newspaper went online in October 2007, more than 15 million page views were counted and 500.000 unique visits.
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Sound and Vision participates in European web archiving project

29-05-2008
Sound and Vision, the archive of the Dutch public broadcasting companies, will participate in the European Living Web Archives (LiWA) project. Sound and Vision hopes to capture the online content generated by the public broadcasting companies that is not broadcasted in the traditional way as from 2010. As of 2008 the National Library of the Netherlands harvests a selection of a few thousand Dutch websites within the context of its core collection profile: Dutch history, language and society. .
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Many Dutch museums lack digital preservation strategies

16-05-2008
A survey on the role of ICT in museums (in Dutch) by Digital Heritage Nederlands and the Dutch Museum Association indicates that 79 percent of Dutch museums do not have any digital preservation strategy. The authors assume that knowledge with regard to digital preservation has increased since the last survey in 2002, but this knowledge is 'fragile' and has not yet resulted in specific documented strategies. Quite a few museums reported that they store digital images on cd-roms, while it is well known that cd-roms are not suitable for long-term preservation.
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Audiovisual legacy: a meeting of two worlds

12-04-2008
These past few days an Economies of the Commons conference was held, co-sponsored by Sound and Vision en Digital Heritage Netherlands. The conference concentrated on the economics of digitalisation and digital-born production in an internet world where free and easy access has become the norm for the user. The problem was approached from two very different worlds: on the one hand that of internet pirates who see the entire internet as their creative playing field where everything is allowed, and on the other hand the world of archives and museums, which try to secure financing on a national and international level, for instance in the European eContentplus programme.
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'Economies of the commons' conference

01-03-2008
On 11-12 April 2008 'De Balie' in Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, in collaboration with Knowledgeland, Images for the Future, and Virtual Platform, organise a two-day international public working conference on the economies, sustainability, and opportunities for creative reuse of these public audiovisual resources and archives. The conference brings together a highly international group of specialists, including Peter Kaufman (Intelligent Television), Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives), Roei Amit (INA), Kenneth Goldsmith (UbuWeb), Anthony McCann (Hallam University), Hubert Best (Best & Soames / FOCAL), Lucie Guibault (University of Amsterdam), Florian Schneider (Kein.tv) David Bollier (On The Commons), and many others. Dutch co-organisers include Sound and Vision and the Filmmuseum. .
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