Digitization 101

At the fall 2018 Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Membership Meeting, Oya Y. Rieger and  Roger C. Schonfeld provided a 28-minute snapshot on the state of digital preservation.  Schonfled is the director of Ithaka' S+R, Libraries and Scholarly Communication Program and Rieger is a senior advisor to that program. 

Description: 

Ensuring the long-term preservation of digital information for future users has been one of the key aspirations of the research library community. Ithaka S+R has been exploring the current state of digital preservation in order to identify research questions and areas for action. Based on interviews with 21 subject experts, we gathered perspectives on the successes, gaps, outstanding issues, and emerging needs in digital preservation. Although the conversations were open-ended, they were framed with questions to probe what seems to be working well now, new research workflows or cultural practices that require novel preservation strategies, and areas that need further attention and research. Our study shows areas of significant progress in the preservation landscape as the community has grown and has established important collaborations. However, the interviews revealed a number of concerns with the pace and nature of these developments and identified several issues that would benefit from further exploration. For this session, we plan to share what we have learned and gather feedback and additional perspectives, as we work to generate a research agenda for Ithaka S+R on digital preservation.

We are excited to share the detailed schedule - with information about every session - for iPRES2018, the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation. We are using the Open Science Framework (OSF) platform to make the full conference proceedings available - including slides, papers, poster images, workshop materials, panel questions, session notes, and supplementary materials.

We are pleased to see many people registering for iPRES 2018. There is still time to register if you haven’t: https://ipres2018.org/registration. If a full registration doesn’t work for you, you can select a workshop-only registration for Monday or register for select days or activities. If you have any questions, please contact our Registration Team.
 
Some tuition support is still available for underrepresented students and first-time attendees - see the registration page for details. Thank you again, Portico, for your making tuition support possible! 
 
There are rolling submissions and acceptances for ad hoc programming, including the first digital preservation game room, original digital preservation graphics, lightning sessions, and other programming – spots are filling up and additional information is available here.
 
Our iPRES 2018 Code of Conduct with our response framework is posted and we welcome your feedback.