[Hum-DIS] FW: [WAIN] Perth: Talk on Digital preservation and digital audiodelivery

[Kerry Smith]

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Subject: [WAIN] Perth: Talk on Digital preservation and digital
audiodelivery

 

You are invited to rare opportunity to hear an international expert on
digital audio preservation at a public talk entitled

 

Implementing a low cost solution to digital preservation and delivering
online access to digital audio and other formats: Lessons from the NLA
and UNESCO

 

By Kevin Bradley, Director of Sound Preservation and Curator of Oral
History and Folklore at the National Library of Australia

 

On Tuesday 16th December 2008

 

At State Library theatrette

 

At 5pm

 

NO CHARGE

 

This talk will be aimed at those working generally in the fields of
archives, local studies, records management and oral history.

 

Who is Kevin?

 

Kevin Bradley is Curator for Oral History and Folklore and Director of
Sound Preservation at the National Library of Australia. 

 

He is the President of the Australasian Sound Recordings Association
(ASRA), Vice Chair of the Technical Committee of the International
Association of Sound and Audio Visual Archives (IASA), editor and a
contributor for the TC04 Guidelines on the Production and Preservation
of Digital Audio Objects, published in 2004 by IASA, and has been a
member of various standards groups. 

 

Kevin's expertise also extends to the preservation of general digital
objects and managed digital preservation at the National Library of
Australia under Colin Webb for a number of years. He was the
Sustainability Advisor on the Australian Partnership for Sustainable
Repositories and a member of the OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata
Framework Working Group that developed the OCLC/RLG Metadata Framework
to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects. 

 

Kevin is a member of the Memory of the World Programme, Sub-Committee on
Technology, and brought together the recent UNESCO publications from
that group, Risks associated with the use of recordable CDs and DVDs as
reliable storage media in archival collections - strategies and
alternatives and Towards an open source archival repository and
preservation system. 

 

For further information do please contact me

 

Cheers

 

Joanna

 

Dr Joanna Sassoon

Senior Archivist

State Records Office of Western Australia

T: 08 9427 3404

F: 08 9427 3368

E: joanna.sassoon at sro.wa.gov.au <mailto:joanna.sassoon at sro.wa.gov.au> 

 

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