Tools and Trends: International Conference on Digital Preservation at the occasion of the retirement of Johan Steenbakkers

1-2 November 2007, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, the Netherlands

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Day 1: Tools for digital preservation

Session 1: Introduction to ongoing European projects

Session 2: Characterisation

  • Stephen Abrams: Automated Characterization in Preservation Workflows
  • Manfred Thaller: Characterizing with a goal in mind. The XCL approach
  • Robert Sharpe: An automated framework for the characterisation of records utilising PRONOM, DROID and other tools

Session 3: Preservation Action

Session 4: Preservation Infrastructures

Day 2: Trends in digital archiving

Sectoral approaches (1)

  • Els van Eijck van Heslinga: Trends in archiving and preservation of e-journals
  • Stijn Hoorens: Addressing the uncertain future of preserving the past. Towards a robust strategy for digital archiving and preservation
  • Salvatore Mele: Preservation, re-use and (open) access to research data: the case of High-Energy Physics

Sectoral approaches (2)

  • Catherine Lupovici: Archiving the web: the mass preservation challenge
  • Fynette Eaton: Digital preservation: experiences and thoughts of an American archivist
  • Richard Wright: Structural requirements for digital audiovisual preservation

Cross-sectoral approaches