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Department of Internal Affairs
Legacy Digital: Digital Continuity and
Outreach @ArchivesNZ
Ross Spencer, Mick Crouch
Archives New Zealand
ARANZ Christchurch Wednesday October 1 2014
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Community Discussion
• DCAP, GDAP, Government ICT Strategy and Action Plan, New Zealand Data Futures Forum
• Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative (ADRI)
• Twitter – @dp_pig @leninoc etc…
• Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild
• iPRES – http://ipres2014.org
• Rosetta Format Working Group
• Digital Preservation Q&A QANDA
• National Digital Forum / GOVIS / Future Perfect conferences
• GoogleGroups droid-list
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Blogging
• Open Planets Foundation
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Outreach
• “Providing services to a population who might not otherwise have access”
• GitHub of code for others to use
• Demystifying / sharing knowledge
• It doesn’t benefit us (the small ‘us’ – Digital Continuity / Archives New Zealand or the large ‘us’ – the international DP community) to put up a wall
• Feeds into community discussion but growing number of participants in discussion
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Teaching DoC how to fish
• Weirder than old! [Blog] http://tinyurl.com/o6hvk2m
• 32 5.25-inch floppy disks from Claire Ashcroft @ DoC
• KryoFlux!
• 30 disks successfully imaged
• Forensically discovered CP/M file system
• WordStar
• Conversion from WordStar to plain text
• A new ‘war story’ for the digital preservation community
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Agents of Change
• Extra-organisational
• Intra-organisational
• Victoria University
• International
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Benefits
• Influence for our benefit – DoC doing it right, doing it well.
• Influence for our benefit – TNA improving DROID
• Stronger Together – Agencies will have their own fleet of
fishing boats
• We get to learn as well – Our experience grows beyond our
own institution…
• Those issues might yet reach our door…
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Emphasis
• Open source
• Tools – Screwdrivers vs. Manuals
• Open source implies community
• Shared community
• Shared solution
• Can’t do job without tools, without community – shared problems
and shared solutions
• Contribute regardless, show the way for others to contribute too,
even if they don’t
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Notes
• Grounded in PRA
• Opening data
• Twitter a phenomenon? – Powerful forum? E.g. influence of
BitCurator
• We’re ALL understaffed / under resourced – this can only be
addressed by a community
• It’s a big problem, with lots of individuals
• The off-the-shelf solutions are not mature and they rely on the
same tools we do anyway!
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Why is it important now?
• Cavalry isn’t coming
• GDAP didn’t get to the finish line
• Have to figure it out on our own – and we are
• Digital isn’t coming – it’s already here (harks back to
abstract – digital at forefront)
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Conclusion
• Community!
• Share information, get involved…
• Face-to-face; word-of-mouth
• We can’t legislate for the possibilities
• But we can build knowledge bases
• Learn lessons once… apply many times
• Through community we share information;
• Through community we receive and reuse information!
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Quesadillas?
By cezzie901 (Flickr: Quesadillas) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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