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Digital Preservation 2022 Preserving Legacy
See also https://forum2022.diglib.org
The DLF Forum welcomes digital library, archives, and museum practitioners from member institutions and beyond—for whom it serves as a meeting place, marketplace, and congress. Come visit with Gail during this exciting networking and learning event.
Society of American Archivists 86th Annual Meeting
Come meet Gail and colleagues! The annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, held in late summer in different cities throughout the country, includes a wide array of informative education sessions, pre-conference workshops, networking opportunities, special events, exhibits, and tours of local repositories. Geography is a principal factor in selecting potential host cities. (With a national membership, it is important for SAA to move systematically around the country, from region to region.) Other important factors include access and affordability for attendees and SAA’s commitment to diversity, social responsibility, and sustainability in all aspects of conference planning.
As digital records and new forms of historical documentation proliferate in the archival landscape, we explore new techniques for carrying out our work, and pioneer the use of new systems and tools
Society of American Archivists - Annual Meeting
As digital records and new forms of historical documentation proliferate in the archival landscape, we explore new techniques for carrying out our work, and pioneer the use of new systems and tools that we build and sustain. We are creators ourselves, engaging in the intellectual endeavors of description, interpretation, and generating original scholarship.
IPRES 2019 - save the date! September 16-19, Amsterdam
iPRES 2019 will bring you to the Netherlands from 16 to 20 September 2019
The conference will bring together scientists, students, researchers, archivists, librarians, providers, and other experts to share recent developments and innovative projects in a wide variety of topics in digital preservation from strategy to implementation, and from international and local initiatives. Year on year the debate and research profiled at iPRES have moved digital preservation from a technology driven niche specialism of experts to a global challenge with the community to match.
AWS Storage Days
AWS Summit
iPRES 2018 - Using the Digital Preservation Storage Criteria workshop
iPRES is the premier and longest-running conference series on digital preservation. Since 2004, annual iPRES conferences rotate around the globe on four continents so far. The conference brings together 300-400 scientists, students, researchers, archivists, librarians, providers, and other experts to share recent developments, innovative projects and to collaboratively solve problems. On the first day (workshops and tutorials) join a team of us hosting an interactive workshop about using the preservation storage criteria. This builds on the workshops of the past 2 years on the topic of data storage technologies and preservation.
Fixity Survey Report - NDSA - just published!
The report summarizes the results of the 2017 survey, including both broad trends and detailed information captured in the survey about 89 organization respondent’s fixity practices.
Amazon Web Services Summit
The AWS Summit is a free event designed to bring together the cloud computing community to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Learn by attending technical sessions, workshops, chalk talks, and participating in team challenges. We hope to see you there!
Is your approach to long-term digital information failing the business?

Latest research from The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), Digital Preservation: Is your approach to long-term digital information failing the business? New report by John Mancini, Chief Evangelist at AIIM, based on an extensive survey of its member which include information managers, content & document management owners and business users.
A few of the conclusions:
+ Digital preservation is seen as vital by business and information professionals for ensuring that long-term digital information can be used intelligently and efficiently
+ C-Suite and IT lack understanding and commitment
+ Traditional IT strategies focused on back-ups and archiving are just not good enough to release the potential value that is now trapped in long-term digital information
+ Digital Preservation is emerging as a critical Intelligent Information Management capability that requires dedicated commitment
Download your free copy of the AIIM eBook
iPRES 2017 International Conference on Digital Preservation
iPRES is the major international conference on the preservation and long-term management of digital materials. iPRES conferences have been held on four continents since 2004. At this conference we plan to continue the discussion around "What is digital preservation storage". Let's meet!
Society of American Archivists General Meeting
Archivists from around the country and the world will convene at ARCHIVES 2017, SAA’s Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, July 23-29. We're participating in the Research Forum all-day Tuesday and will be meeting with clients, prospects and partners. Contact us if you're going - let's talk digital archives!
Digital Preservation Storage Criteria v2 ready for public comment
This Criteria document was originally developed in preparation for an iPRES 2016 workshop called “What is Preservation Storage?”. It was also presented at the Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections 2016 meeting hosted by the Library of Congress, and briefly at the PASIG Fall 2016 meeting. Version 2 of the criteria reflects the feedback received at these meetings. Criteria for digital preservation storage were originally developed by Kate Zwaard, Gail Truman, Sibyl Schaefer, Jane Mandelbaum, Nancy McGovern, Steve Knight and Andrea Goethals. The team plans to continue this work through the year, at several more conferences, including iPRES 2017 and DLF 2017.
Society of Californian Archivists - Annual Meeting
Come talk to us about our services. Join Gail and Kathleen in Pasadena, South CA. The Society of California Archivists, formed in 1971, is a professional association devoted to the support and development of individuals and institutions that collect, care for, and provide access to the documentary heritage of California and adjoining areas.
DLF Forum and Digital Preservation (NDSA)
Gail will present a lightening talk at DLF and a poster at the NDSA's Digital Preservation mtg that immediately follows.
iPRES 2016
Gail will be presenting a poster on the Web Archiving Environmental Scan and will participate in the Preservation Storage workshop. Join her there! iPRES is the longest standing digital preservation conference in the world. This important event brings together key theorists, researchers and practitioners to explore the latest trends, innovations, policies and practices in digital preservation. iPRES 2016 will attract participants from leading institutions, projects and initiatives from all around the world.
Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections 2016
2-day meeting brings together technical and industry experts with an interest in digital preservation. Join Gail there!
Society of North Carolina Archivists / South Carolina Archival Association joint conference
Truman, Gail. 2016. Web Archiving Environmental Scan. Harvard Library Report.
This five month study from Truman Technologies, for Harvard Library - now published - looks at the current state of web archiving practices across national libraries and institutions around the globe.
Web Archives 2015
Hosted by the Bentley Historical Library and University of Michigan Library, this two-day multi-disciplinary conference will provide a forum to explore ideas, tools, and methodologies for creating and managing web archives and better understand the scholarly and research needs of those working in the field.
Keynote Speakers:
Jefferson Bailey (Internet Archive)
Abbie Grotke (Library of Congress)
Juan Cole (University of Michigan)
Ian Milligan (Waterloo University)
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