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Digital Preservation: An Overview by Peter Van Garderen — last modified 28-11-2006 04:30

A webcast version of a presentation entitled ‘Digital Preservation: An Overview’ delivered by digital archives consultant Peter Van Garderen on October 13, 2006 at the Managing Information Assets in the Public Sector Conference in Edmonton, Canada. The presentation gives an introduction to the problem of digital preservation, the various initiatives and tools that are attempting to address this problem, and outlined how the OAIS standard can be used as the basis of developing an institutional digital preservation strategy. It includes a list of 50 citations and references that were used in the presentation. Check it out if you would like a guided tour of the world of digital preservation or if you are simply curious how Monty Python’s Holy Grail, Mad Max the Road Warrior and the Sesame Street muppets all made it into a presentation on digital preservation.