I've just spent 3 days in Portugal working with colleagues from the EU funded SCAPE Project. We're part of a large Integrated Project that is developing an array of new solutions to preservation challenges. Some of these solutions, at the atomic level, may be just simple command line tools that implement tightly defined functions (eg. identify the format of a file).
Last week I attended the third POCOS Symposium, which focused on the preservation of computer games and virtual worlds. This event seems to have coincided with a growing disatisfaction with the state of preservation of this significant part of UK culture.
I'm really pleased to be writing a quick blog post on a new digital preservation project we'll be running over the next couple of years. After running 3 AQuA style hackathon/mashups last year I felt we'd managed to develop a useful formula for solving digital preservation problems and beginning to foster a bit more of an active practitioner community.
OPF and DPC recently held a hackathon in York that followed the style of the AQuA hackathons I've previously reported on.
I attended the DPC's latest briefing day on Digital Forensics for Preservation in Oxford on the 29th June 2011 and compiled a list of some of the software tools that were mentioned by the various speakers throughout the day.
The British Library has hosted the second of the AQuA Project's mashup events, bringing together practitioners from Libraries and Archives with digital preservation and technical experts. Following the same format as the first event in Leeds, but scaling up to 30 attendees, 3 days were spent examining content challenges, developing solutions and sharing in the digital preservation journey.