Digital Preservation

Digital Preservation

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The practice of storing human knowledge in electronic formats has forever changed the way librarians and archivists think about the collection and preservation of the cultural record. In contrast to our lengthy experience with paper documents, today we face new challenges as we safeguard from techno…

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    • Jul 26, 2013 LATEST EPISODE
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    Cassandra Calling: Conservation pasts, present and futures

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2013 60:53


    Mary M. Brooks, PhD, FIIC, ACR, is a private conservator and consultant on the conservation of textiles. She has worked in museums in the United States, Europe and England. Her exhibition, Stop the Rot, at York Castle Museum aimed to raise public awareness of heritage conservation. Besides her consulting and conservation work she teaches conservation and museology in universities in the United Kingdom and abroad. Mary has a particular interest in the contribution that object-based research and conservation approaches can make to the wider interpretation and presentation of cultural artifacts. Her talk will explore the changing relationships between conservators, conservation and the public and scholars in our post-modern digital world of replicas and multiples.

    Digital Scholarship and the Archives: Micro- and Macroscopes

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2013 60:40


    Peter Leonard, Head of Humanities Research Computing, University of Chicago, and incoming Librarian for Digital Humanities Research at Yale speaks at the New Directions for Digital Scholarship conference on Friday, March 1, 2013.

    Going Beyond Digital Humanities: Mainstreaming, Community Building, and Collaborating

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2013 63:06


    David Germano, Professor of Religious Studies, Director of SHANTI, University of Virginia, speaks at the New Directions for Digital Scholarship conference on Friday, March 1, 2013.

    Digital Humanities Curriculum and (Inter)Disciplinary Change

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2013 59:37


    Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, University of Victoria, speaks at the New Directions for Digital Scholarship conference on Friday, March 1, 2013.

    But Storage is Cheap: Digital Preservation in the Age of Abudance

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2011 44:49


    Abby Smith Rumsey, historian and Consulting analyst on the use of the cultural record in a variety of media, gives her views on digital preservation and the role of research libraries in the preservation of electronic media.

    Paradoxes of Preservation: A Personal & Strategic Perspective

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2011 32:39


    Helen Shenton, former head of Collection Care at the British Library, presents a personal perspective on preservation from her current position as executive director at the Harvard University Library.

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