World Digital Preservation Day 2023: making digital preservation greener

Posted by vholmes in Library and Learning Services on November 2, 2023

The theme for WPDP2023 (2 November) is Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort. This post is a write-up of an online talk to celebrate the day. It expands on the Library and Records Management’s wish to embed sustainable practices in their roles, explore efforts being made by the sector and examines how we can preserve files […]

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Managing your own personal digital archive

Posted by vholmes in Library and Learning Services on November 7, 2022

In a second post related to World Digital Preservation Day, 3 November 2022, I thought I would share the tips that our University Records Manager, David Jenkins and I (Vicky Holmes, University Archivist) gave at some informal sessions run on 3 November about managing your own digital archive. We are all dealing with a deluge […]

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World Digital Preservation Day 2022

Posted by vholmes in Library and Learning Services on October 19, 2022

I last wrote a blog about our digital preservation activity in 2018, nearly a year after I started at Leicester, and thought the forthcoming World Digital Preservation Day 2022 would be a good opportunity reflect back over the last few years and the progress we have made. Obviously, the pandemic changed our ways of working […]

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