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NCDD-symposium: "NCDD mag best wat feller worden" (#hvog)
26-01-2012

door Inge Angevaare - Bij het NCDD-symposium van afgelopen dinsdag was ik zo zeer betrokken (op allerlei manieren) dat een min of meer objectief verslag er niet in zit. Maar niet bloggen over dit evenement is natuurlijk geen optie, dus:
NCDD Symposium Bouw een huis voor ons digitaal geheugen De opkomst was indrukwekkend. Meer dan 160 aanmeldingen, zo’n 140 echte bezoekers – dat betekent dat het onderwerp leeft.
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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.
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