this is really just some themes and questions from,
from yesterday. Just a summary of cliffs, new
issues, legal sweeping. Excuse me. Oh,
I'm sorry. I'm Aaron Trehub and I'm from Auburn
University in Alabama in the United States. A move
towards sweeping legal principles instead of legal minutiae. Mirroring
material between countries on the organizational level transitions of stewardship
, which I think is extremely interesting question. Very
difficult one. Succession plans and common tools and infrastructure
benchmarking secure, very technical side. A lot of
talk about alignment and interdependence. This is really sort
of my gloss. We all realignments. Good interdependence
is slightly more problematical of in my view, depends
on, we're depending on ways of neutralizing interdependency barrier
and a concept known as coordinated alignment, which is
sort of interesting and song. Right? Yes.
The world interesting lots about community building, spreading ownership
. Very important point I took away from it was
reaching out to important but neglected constituencies. Yeah,
for example, the storage industry and I think it
was john who stressed the importance of being there.
That is being in the places where these issues are
decided and the importance of deadlines and deliverables. Uh
, one thing that I learned yesterday is that we
all do things a little bit different. My colleagues
and speaking of his country said were there. Mm
. So that also has implications for the role of
national entities, national institutions, libraries ministries. Those
vary across countries. So they take away there is
that making the case has very different means. Yes
. Lot of talk about intellectual honest. Mhm All
these things process where we can can do, shouldn't
do some talk about reinventing the wheel. Why we
do it called perverse appeal of paying a lot uh
and the need for transparency, more transparency across the
board. Do things. Oh, yesterday afternoon an
ambitious goal was floated. What we need is a
comprehensive global registry of all the content that needs to
be preserved. Well impossible. People were saying about
15 or 16 years ago about index in the Web
. We have done so also distinctions between international,
national and global. The two are not synonymous.
one of the sessions I intended a lot of conversation
about making what we're doing truly global that is reaching
under certain parts of the world. And they're very
valuable materials, but very little infrastructure. Yeah,
very difficult to pitch the idea of digital preservation trees
that yeah, the structure that the importance of documentation
and storytelling. Very interesting idea to create a genealogy
family tree time. Various words for digital preservation initiatives
of the story is clear and progressions clear. We
really don't have a single fine. What we've been
doing for the past years, ah idea for creating
a global heat map of digital projects, digitization preservation
conditions around the world, stressing achievements and things that
we've actually come tools. But also being honest about
failures and perhaps great in what was called a failure
register anonymously. If from that, the importance of
public relations gave her spark like info pack elevator talks
as we call in the United States. Those are
basically very brief 30 seconds to one minute speeches that
you give to decision makers telling them why what we're
doing is important using twitter, oh, creating public
service announcements and possibly even recruiting celebrities to endorse visual
preservation. And Sigourney Weaver was one has floated as
a possibility there. Uh, question came up several
times when we talk about we who do we mean
who's our audience? And what is an idea that
was, that was an intriguing question, um,
lose community of interest of people and organizations, but
doesn't perhaps to be a little less loose questions.
Good enough first is best practices. Um still need
working definition of digital preservation, some folks and what
constitutes good enough. It's good enough. Good enough
forever and best compared to what, how do we
know when we reach the best uh proliferating projects,
lot of things going on, but we have a
problem with fragmentation and I would argue to some degree
with incoherence. Um maybe it would be maybe because
fewer but more focused and more alive. Uh yeah
, Find out about in one place. Uh External
funding threat, yes. Um double edged sword.
It's good for some things, it's not good for
other things. We need to think very carefully about
how best not fall into the trap, trying to
use it as a as a long term solution,
which it really isn't. He was never really designed
to be uh another theme that sort of walk his
way through the discussions yesterday, sustainability and self sufficiency
. I think there's a general recognition of funding is
drawing is the goal in any case. Number of
people said that their working assumption these days is that
they're simply going to be no new funding for this
activity. Ah detailed cost model is useful, but
it was pointed out perhaps it's difficult to think of
an example where we have done this with other core
library functions to the same degree that they're doing a
digital preservation, a general agreement that we need to
have a bad additional preservation and normal workflow that will
probably be doing it ourselves in the future. That
brings us to the agenda for today, which starts
with resources. And then it goes into city and
we'll be talking about community driven solutions, solutions,
case studies, Cosmo and cost spectrum and building,
building educational training resources, registered teaching infrastructure training materials
. So that is my lightning tour through yesterday's discussions
and just some of the themes that grabbed me.
I'm sure I'm leaving some things out. Yeah,
I hope to play an opportunity to talk about those
later today tomorrow. But right now I would like
to introduce our next speaker. It is jenny seven
. Right, you take that the reason. Hello
. Good morning. It's a pleasure for me to
welcome back. It's under that conference. It's a
number for the beginning of the Catalonia to organise this
meeting in Barcelona together with the consortium of the University
Libraries of Catalonia's organizers. I would think to all
the people that has been working on it for day
four and enthusiast without reach. The conference has been
not possible yesterday use and blood to the director of
the Consortium of University Libraries. Give you some information
about the Libraries of Catalonia. Let me give now
something to vote. Data about sciatica. Catalonia.
The political in Catalonia was founded in 197, a
cell library of the Institute of Catalan Studies. And
some years later in 1914, the Catalan environment that
was planning a complex system library system for Catalonia giving
the role of national library open it to users and
researchers as it is now the people really look.
So let me, let me think the next year
we're trying to celebrate our Centenary as National Library opening
toward the juices. Um to be critical in Catalonia
has a collection with more than three million of items
including manuscripts, boats, cereals, ravings, sound
recording, video and all types and formats And growth
every year around 120,000 items. Since 204 we have
included in all our strategic documents and plans the digital
context as a priority virtual services education of heritage as
well as as the harvest and keep your digital documents
and websites alignment with these goals. We have promoted
different initiatives always in cooperation with other libraries, archives
, museums and some other cultural institutions. Among these
initiatives, I would like to provide two of them
a traditional memory of Catalonia under all our bags of
Catalan serios. Both of them go like it with
the City Museum consortium of University Libraries and produce it
on this data collection on these days of collections Related
to specifically with digital preservation. We started in 2005
when he got the battle on web archive and few
late 33 years ago in 2011 Barbara Digital repository and
reconsidering digital preservation. The day is to be a
national tool. In fact now we are housing need
apart from the own digital collections documents of another cultural
institution as a pilot test. Um A certain all
of these are very small initiatives. We are a
small country but we are happy but because we have
started to work on all these years is and I
think that this is the important things because we are
acquiring a lot of experience with these Persians. Digital
preservation has become more and more strategic for our,
for our countries. In the digital world that change
quickly. The institutions and governments must find solutions to
this increasing need of making the digital information, data
knowledge and heritage of today available to the next generations
. The library is traditionally have skills and competences on
the preservation of books, serials and in general all
ethnological collections on paper thanks to the export disappeared through
hundreds of years and also thinks that it is a
support that had not changed so much for years.
Nowadays we should add by similar knowledge and expertise on
digital formats and supports and we have we have not
so much time to do it due to as you're
now digital evolve disappears or changes Just in a one
. I think this is an interesting and stimulating challenge
. But the truth, the truth is that in
the original scenario we need to collaborate much more than
we have not probably do it before libraries usually uh
we have a tradition of collaboration but this is our
brother corporation what we need Digital preservation. It's a
liberal user with many many approaches. Digital preservation requires
the complicity and personal work of many professionals as yesterday
reform inside like riot. So it? S specialist
lawyers, solvent dimensions, dispersed arteries, etcetera.
And all of that should be implied that we meet
with preservation. If we want that, it will
be successful. We should create strong communities able to
frame to finding that common solutions, doors, methodologies
and system able models and to generate synergies is exactly
what is happening in this conference and the collaborations they
survival. But it's not always easy, you know
, and we need to find affordable opportunities and frameworks
to do it. The media's new parties, the
partners new opportunities that with them employment. I sincerely
hope that this conference will help us to improve and
create new and better initiatives. Thank you. Yeah 196 --> A:middle L:90% .