Digital Archiving - What Is It?!?, Online Webinar, Thu 3rd November, 1pm-2pm
World Digital Preservation Day is on 3rd November. It's a term Archivists feel relatively comfortable with but what happens when we try to explain it to others? And rather than focusing on educating about digital preservation, should we shift our emphasis to digital archiving? Is there even a difference?
Join us in this session as the TfL Corporate Archives team take you through both some of the theory and some of the practice of what digital archiving entails. We'll try to explain in plain English why transferring digital files into the Cloud or onto a hard drive and leaving them there isn't the answer to either long-term storage or permanent preservation. We'll show you why searching digital records collections is often not going to be like using Google. And we'll highlight some of the misunderstandings and pitfalls we've encountered on our ongoing digital journey.
As ever, we're not experts but we are very happy to share our experiences and the knowledge we do have.
To register for the event please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/415515446887
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Regards,
Tamara Thornhill
TfL Corporate Archives
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