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A Career in Digital Preservation. Lee Hibberd, Digital Preservation Manager. 1925 National Library Act gave the Library the legal mandate to collect, care for and provide access to its collections
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A Career in Digital Preservation Lee Hibberd, Digital Preservation Manager
1925 National Library Act gave the Library the legal mandate to collect, care for and provide access to its collections • 2003, 2012 and 2013 legislation expands opportunities and responsibilities to preserve digital content
What’s digital? • > 23 years of digitised content • Born-digital content from the 1980s • 32 million files • 400TB of storage >> 1PB in 2020 • Plus anything digitally published in the UK!!
We have a lot in common • Maximising the benefits of the content we have • Meeting ethical and legal obligations to manage digital information e.g. financial, GDPR • A shared responsibility to create, curate and care for digital culture • We share threats…
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C Clarke Once you’ve seen the same trick three times it ceases to be magic Me
Sustainability [content growth > cost reductions]
Automation and Workflows [10K images per year > 10K images per day]
From a presentation from Richard Wright at the No Time To Wait 3 conference 25th October 2018 https://mediaarea.net/Events/2018-10-26_NoTimeToWait3/presentations/02.%20Richard%20Wright%20-%20Review%20of%20Audiovisual%20Preservation/Wright-NTTW3.pdf
Full Members • The Bank of England • BibliothèqueNationale de Luxembourg • British Library (BL) • Cambridge University Library • The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) • Digital Curation Centre • European Central Bank • Jisc • Lloyds Banking Group • The National Archives • National Library of Scotland (NLS) • National Library of Wales (NLW) • National Records of Scotland (NRS) • The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) • Public Record Office Northern Ireland (PRONI) • Research Councils UK • Unilever Archives and Records Management • United Nations HQ • United Nations High Commission for Refugees • United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) • United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals • University of Glasgow • University of London • University of Oxford • University of Sheffield • Associate Members • Aberystwyth University, Department of Information Studies • Academic Preservation Trust • Archaeology Data Service (ADS) • The Archives and Records Association (ARA) • Bacardi-Martini Inc. • BBC • British Museum • BT • Channel 4 • Chester Beatty • DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services • Digital Preservation Network (DPN) • Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) • Durham University • EU Publications Office • Grosvenor Estate • Historic England • Historic Environment Scotland • HSBC • Imperial War Museums • International Atomic Energy Agency • Internet Archive • King's College London • Lancaster University • Leeds University Library • Library and Archives Canada • London School of Economics (LSE) Library • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine • Loughborough University • National Archives of Ireland • National Library of Ireland (NLI) • Open University (OU) • Parliamentary Archives • Portico • Portsmouth University • Qatar National Library • RBS Archives • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales • Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library • Royal Museums Greenwich • Scottish Council on Archives • Swansea University • Tate • Trinity College Library Dublin (TCLD) • UK Data Archive, Essex University (UKDA) • UK LOCKSS Alliance (UKLA) • University College Dublin • University College London • University of the Arts London • University of Bath Library • University of Birmingham, Library Services • University of Bristol • University of East Anglia • University of Edinburgh, Library and Collections • University of Hull • University of Kent • University of Liverpool • University of Manchester Library • University of Melbourne • University of Nottingham • University of Salford • University of St Andrews • University of Sussex • University of Warwick, Modern Records Centre • University of York Information Directorate • Wellcome Library • Welsh Government, Museums Archives and Libraries Division (MALD)