A Career in Digital Preservation Lee Hibberd Digital
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 1980 s • 32 million files • 400 TB of storage >> 1 PB 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
Opportunities and challenges for everyone
Sustainability [content growth > cost reductions]
cloud vs local cumulative storage costs 1. 2 cost (millions GBP) 1 0. 8 100% checked cloud 0. 6 100% checked local disk 0% checked cloud 0% checked local tape 0. 4 10% checked cloud 0. 2 0 17/18 576 TB 18/19 372 TB 19/20 514 TB 20/21 514 TB 21/22 514 TB new data added per year (TB) 22/23 514 TB
Automation and Workflows [10 K images per year > 10 K images per day]
Rescuing video tapes
From a presentation from Richard Wright at the No Time To Wait 3 conference 25 th October 2018 https: //mediaarea. net/Events/2018 -10 -26_No. Time. To. Wait 3/presentations/02. %20 Richard%20 Wright%20 -%20 Review%20 of%20 Audiovisual%20 Preservation/Wright-NTTW 3. pdf
Improving governance and policy
A future career? ?
Digital Preservation Coalition Membership 100 80 60 Associate members 40 Full members 20 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 0
• • • • • • • • Full Members The Bank of England Bibliothèque Nationale 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 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)
Conclusion and thanks
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