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Digital Preservation -- High Stakes for Finance and Insurance Companies

AIIM

It is time to think about Digital Preservation differently — as a dedicated capability that keeps long-term information alive and usable and trusted and easily found. 3 -- Potential opportunities tied to digital preservation are not confined to just big data. The time to act is now.

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Revisiting Digital Preservation - A Tale of Two Undergraduate Majors

AIIM

The history major perhaps explains why I am so intrigued by the question of digital preservation. There are so many aspects of digital preservation that are important to me as a history major – things like “digital memory” and “preserving our cultural heritage” and libraries and formal archives.

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Building and Sustaining a Digital Preservation Program at NARA

National Archives Records Express

This post was written by Elizabeth England and Leslie Johnston, Digital Preservation, Office of the Deputy Archivist of the United States. In 2014, NARA launched an effort to rethink the Electronic Records Archive (ERA) system to modernize the processing and preservation of electronic records, both born-digital and digitized.

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Digital Preservation Software Company Offers Free Digital Archives Starter Solution

IG Guru

From Preservica We are excited to introduce Preservica Starter, a new set of FREE and low-cost digital preservation solutions, that make it easy to create a trusted digital repository for your special collections, institutional records and more.

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New Book: Thinking Digital Preservation: for the serious, intelligent, digital preserver

IG Guru

From Amazon This book will provide the readers with the mental tools to enable them to think their way through challenges concerning digital preservation.It

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Pending Updates to Regulations of Archives in Colombia

AIIM

This article was written by AIIM Florida Chapter Board Member Alvaro Arias Cruz , District Director of Archives of Bogotá. Colombia has one of the most robust and comprehensive archives laws in the Latin American region, identified as the General Archives Law (Law 594 of 2000).

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How one Canadian museum is using Digital Preservation to protect immigrant voices

Preservica

We have mastered the long-term care of art and artifacts, but we must expand our purview to become good stewards of digital content - both digitized materials and items that are born digital – as well.”. The proactive approach to Digital Preservation. The Museum has a small IT and Collections team.”