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Each year the National Film and Sound Archive runs a Digital Directions Symposium to explore key issues in the preservation sector. What do we collect? How do we do it? How will it be used? Get it wrong and we have no heritage, or hide it in deep caves beneath a bureaucratic dragon. This year the GLAM (gallery, library, archive, museum) sector focused on the users of digital collections. The users, advocates and professionals in the screen archival community were also keen to see Jan Müller, the new CEO of the NFSA, in action for the first time. The entire proceedings are available here as a video, opening with his keynote address. Dominic Case, an expert in post production and a passionate advocate of archiving, has written two articles about the proceedings. Here is the first... http://bit.ly/2xxHXH4 http://bit.ly/2xxHXH4+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org “If only there were a massive entity that I were forced to fund to tell me how I should live my life, since I’m so obviously incapable of deciding for myself.” M. Hashimoto Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra