Digital Preservation in the Canadian Landscape

I attended this Association of Canadian Archivists Pre-conference on the current state of digital preservation in Canada. The range of 12 thirty minute presentations was broad [see link to the program].

At the end of the day, the moderator asked all the presenters to come to the front of the room and indicate in 2 minutes their message to the group. The overwhelming message was to join with others, to collaborate. No one organization can do it all, work with others and in particular work with community groups, don't reinvent the wheel. Put your content up and make it findable, in the best way you can. This was the same message from the Library of Congress, which is now archiving tweets (not all of them!), to the folks at COPPUL using LOCKSS for e-journals.

If you note any presentation that you are interested in learning more about what was said, let me know. I took comprehensive notes, too many to post here.