A presentation on our digital preservation and access programs for VALA in Melbourne, August 2008 AS usual, none of the hyperlinks used in this presentation have carried over on upload. The management are looking into this issue. Until they fix the problem, I've included all relevant hyperlinks in the Comments field for the slides concerned. You'll need to look there.

1. Digitisation, Digital
Preservation Web2.0
P r e s e n t a t i o n f o r VA L A ,
M e l b o u r n e
2 7 A u g u s t 2 0 0 8
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2. It is my ongoing belief
that our users will
soon get bored with
conversations and
catalogue records.
They want the stuff.
They expect it to be
online.
Now.
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3. Global trends in
digitisation
• Faster, better, cheaper equipment
storage
• Better DAMS CMS software
• Institutional repositories
• More audio film
• Collaboration
• Shared collections (eg. Picture
Australia)
• Mass digitisation programs: Google,
Microsoft, Yahoo, Open Content
Alliance (OCA), Internet Archive
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