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Maintenance begins at creation, so why are we not creating better?

The beats are the same. You work for government, or academia (lets face it, that’s probably where 90% of the work is) you have a deliverable; you save it; you print to PDF; you store it on an institutional repository with some metadata (or Zenodo, OSF or equivalent) and its done.

There’s a small chance that it’s FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) right? It has metadata that can be discovered by an audience looking for it and can be indexed by search engines. The data is potentially accessible if published correctly. They’re not particularly interoperable or easily converted, and PDFs aren’t really designed for reuse, even if tools like Apache Tika help ease the burden of extracting artifacts. It’s just a PDF, why are we even talking about FAIR? There begins a story…

The beats are the same, yet, we work in digital preservation, our backgrounds are in GLAM or software, why do we want to shoot ourselves in the foot? Why are we not using our skills to create better?

Maintenance begins at creation, so why are we not creating better?

The beats are the same. You work for government, or academia (lets face it, that’s probably where 90% of the work is) you have a deliverable; you save it; you print to PDF; you store it on an institutional repository with some metadata (or Zenodo, OSF or equivalent) and its done.

There’s a small chance that it’s FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) right? It has metadata that can be discovered by an audience looking for it and can be indexed by search engines. The data is potentially accessible if published correctly. They’re not particularly interoperable or easily converted, and PDFs aren’t really designed for reuse, even if tools like Apache Tika help ease the burden of extracting artifacts. It’s just a PDF, why are we even talking about FAIR? There begins a story…

The beats are the same, yet, we work in digital preservation, our backgrounds are in GLAM or software, why do we want to shoot ourselves in the foot? Why are we not using our skills to create better?

Maintenance begins at creation, so why are we not creating better?

The beats are the same. You work for government, or academia (lets face it, that’s probably where 90% of the work is) you have a deliverable; you save it; you print to PDF; you store it on an institutional repository with some metadata (or Zenodo, OSF or equivalent) and its done.

There’s a small chance that it’s FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) right? It has metadata that can be discovered by an audience looking for it and can be indexed by search engines. The data is potentially accessible if published correctly. They’re not particularly interoperable or easily converted, and PDFs aren’t really designed for reuse, even if tools like Apache Tika help ease the burden of extracting artifacts. It’s just a PDF, why are we even talking about FAIR? There begins a story…

The beats are the same, yet, we work in digital preservation, our backgrounds are in GLAM or software, why do we want to shoot ourselves in the foot? Why are we not using our skills to create better?

Maintenance begins at creation, so why are we not creating better?

The beats are the same. You work for government, or academia (lets face it, that’s probably where 90% of the work is) you have a deliverable; you save it; you print to PDF; you store it on an institutional repository with some metadata (or Zenodo, OSF or equivalent) and its done.

There’s a small chance that it’s FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) right? It has metadata that can be discovered by an audience looking for it and can be indexed by search engines. The data is potentially accessible if published correctly. They’re not particularly interoperable or easily converted, and PDFs aren’t really designed for reuse, even if tools like Apache Tika help ease the burden of extracting artifacts. It’s just a PDF, why are we even talking about FAIR? There begins a story…

The beats are the same, yet, we work in digital preservation, our backgrounds are in GLAM or software, why do we want to shoot ourselves in the foot? Why are we not using our skills to create better?

Maintenance begins at creation, so why are we not creating better?

The beats are the same. You work for government, or academia (lets face it, that’s probably where 90% of the work is) you have a deliverable; you save it; you print to PDF; you store it on an institutional repository with some metadata (or Zenodo, OSF or equivalent) and its done.

There’s a small chance that it’s FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) right? It has metadata that can be discovered by an audience looking for it and can be indexed by search engines. The data is potentially accessible if published correctly. They’re not particularly interoperable or easily converted, and PDFs aren’t really designed for reuse, even if tools like Apache Tika help ease the burden of extracting artifacts. It’s just a PDF, why are we even talking about FAIR? There begins a story…

The beats are the same, yet, we work in digital preservation, our backgrounds are in GLAM or software, why do we want to shoot ourselves in the foot? Why are we not using our skills to create better?

This award is in honor of all of our volunteers. Thank you for being our anchors during these turbulent times. ⚓💾🛟❤️ Read more about the 2025 #NDSA #DigiPres Excellence Award Winners on their website.

Announcing the 2025 NDSA Excel...

The #NDSA Staffing Survey - designed to gain insight into current and ideal staffing for digital preservation programs - is now open! Do you work at an organization that stewards digital content for long-term preservation?If so, please consider taking part here:
https://upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_26rAa2eodQPACcS

The survey will remain open until October 3rd, 2025.

🚨 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! 🚨 The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) invites those in the digital preservation community to attend Digital Preservation 2025: Where We're At (Digital Preservation in Uncertain Times). This virtual event will take place October 8-10, 2025.

Learn more and register at https://buff.ly/tP6TqGY

#NDSA #VirtualConference #NationalDigitalStewardshipAlliance #LevelsofPreservation #DigitalPreservation #Digipres

Submit your conference proposals to the #NDSA ! They're seeking ideas of how to confront the challenges of sustaining #digitalpreservation work amid instability and unpredictability. Submit by July 7th and read more at https://ndsa.org/conference/digital-preservation-virtual-2025/cfp/ 💾🧑‍💻 #digipres

🏆 The NDSA Excellence Awards are now accepting nominations!🏆
Know someone making outstanding contributions to digital preservation? Help recognize their work in categories like Teaching, Organization, Project, and Future Steward. Learn more and submit your nominations at https://ndsa.org/groups/excellence-awards/
#DigitalPreservation #digipres #NDSA #excellenceawards #nominatenow

Announcing the #NDSA #Climate Watch Publication; & More News Headlines https://www.infodocket.com/2025/03/06/roundup-texas-may-change-how-schools-select-library-books-critics-say-it-could-lead-to-more-bans-va-warren-county-board-votes-to-defund-200-year-old-front-royal-library-more-headlines/ #data #DigitalLibraryFederation #climatechange #libraries

The next seasonal offering from the #OPF , we’re sharing a celebratory highlight with you: the #NDSA 2023 Storage Infrastructure Survey Report, released last month. I was thrilled to be a part of the effort and learned SO much from the results 💡 💡

Unwrap here: https://osf.io/9qp4w/?view_only=

Registration is now open for #NDSA’s Virtual #DigitalPreservation Conference Redux: Communities of Time and Place. This virtual extension of our November 2023 in-person event will feature a selection of panelists who presented in St. Louis as well as additional presenters bringing in new content https://ndsa.org//2023/12/18/registration-open-for-ndsa-s-virtual-event.html

For those of you (like me), who weren't able to attend the in person event, this could be a great opportunity from January 31 – February 1, 2024, 4:00pm – 8:30pm GST (UTC +0).

A big shout out to the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on winning the 🎉#NDSA Excellence Award🎉 for its project Reliable, Robust and Resilient Digital Infrastructure for Nuclear Decommissioning!!

Read all about it on: https://www.dpconline.org/news/nda-wins-ndsa-excellence-project-award

#digipres2023 #digitalpreservation #digipres

My #digipres 3 things for the day...

1) Prepare for the #ndsa Levels open office session later today. We are discussing what needs to change in the next revision (if anything!)

2) Continue event planning - mostly trying to get another couple of speakers for our #DPCRAM 'RAM Jam' event on 6th December so I can get that advertised.

3) Attend DP Futures webinar with Libnova and @ntallman https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/209/-/digital-preservation-futures-webinar-series

#DP3 #3IPs

New blog post on how organizations are using the #NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation: https://ndsa.org//2023/10/10/how-do-you-use-the-ndsa-levels-of-digital-preservation.html

the #OPF just officially joined the #NDSA - exciting times ahead!

The Call for Proposals is now open for #DigiPres23. The theme this year is 'Communities of Time and Place' - I'm volunteering this year, and am looking forward to seeing your submissions! 🕺 #NDSA

https://ndsa.org/conference/digital-preservation-2023/cfp/

great wee meeting this arvo w/ the #NDSA digital preservation 2023 conference program committee - great to get stuck in new things on behalf of the #OPF

There are other people involved (!): Rahel Berman and Marie Djela (both #NDSA), and chair Mel Romualdez (#CRAE)