Caroline Kimbell, Head of Licensing at The National Archives of England and Wales (TNA) with the responsibility for the digitization programme, talked today about the balance and tensions between reuse and digitization of archives.
Caroline started the session by explaining why TNA’s online strategy has not reduced the number of readers coming every year to [...]
There was a time when NARA’s former conceptual framework for preserving electronic records worked well. Electronic records sent to NARA were products of mainframe databases in ASCII. This situation changed with the developments and use of information and communication technologies, volume of digital information and diversity of documents in multiple formats. In order to address [...]
The National Archives in The Netherlands is responsible for ensuring the long-term preservation of paper records and digital records. Increasingly, the Government is working with digital records and the National Archives has to address several challenges. Currently, the National Archives stores 7 terabytes of digital records, in particular text records, websites and databases, whereas 17 [...]
The Association of Swiss Archivists is kind enough to host the videos of the whole opening ceremony. You can find them here.
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Mr. Andreas Kellerhals, President of the Scientific Committee and Director of the Swiss Federal Archives, made the 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving opening speech during the Welcome Cocktail that was held at the Conference Center in Geneva (CICG). He emphasized the importance of digital and non-digital archives in our societies, no matter the form [...]
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