Archiving and preservation of unusual born-digital objects -NISO Plus

The move to digital has enabled the development of all kinds of innovative and valuable forms of content. But preserving these new and unusual types of born-digital objects presents new and unusual challenges. In this session, you'll hear from some of the experts who are tackling these challenges.

The NISO Plus conference brings people together from across the global information community to share updates and participate in conversations about our shared challenges and opportunities. The focus is on identifying concrete next steps to improve information flow and interoperability, and help solve existing and potential future problems. Please join us to help address the key issues facing our community of librarians, publishers, researchers, and more — today and tomorrow!

Euan Cochrane is an information management and long-term digital preservation practitioner with experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Euan leads Yale University’s Library’s digital preservation team, providing digital preservation infrastructure and services across Yale University’s libraries, archives, and museums. Euan also has a long history with and passion for emulation and software preservation and is leading a number of projects aiming to ensure historic software is preserved and made accessible for future generations.

Jane Winters is professor of digital humanities and director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is a vice-president of the Royal Historical Society, with responsibility for publications, and currently edits a series on academic publishing, which is part of Cambridge University Press Elements: Publishing and Book Culture. Jane’s research interests include digital history, born-digital archives (particularly the archived web), the use of social media by cultural heritage institutions, and open-access publishing. She has published most recently on non-print legal deposit, the values of web archives, born-digital archives and the problem of search, and the archiving and analysis of national web domains.

Salwa Ismail is the Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information Technology and the Associate CIO for University of California Berkeley Library. Her current portfolio includes library-wide support and leadership for digital services including digital scholarship, data services, and programs, computing, innovative technology spaces, interface design, and infrastructure services following a user-centric, interoperable, service-oriented philosophy using structured data delivery systems. In 2015, E-campus News listed her among “11 leaders shaping the future of higher education”. She’s been named a Library Mover and Shaker by Library Journal for being a digital driver. She has chaired and been elected to several international and national committees on digital infrastructure, design, and standards in libraries. She is passionate about bringing together the varied sectors of the information providers to innovate and develop solutions together, in partnership, for our most pressing issues around interoperability of standards in our respective information sectors that can lead to development of innovation solutions for library technologies and digital services.

Seth Anderson is the Software Preservation Program Manager at Yale University Library where he oversees efforts in collection and preservation of software resources, as well as tools for access to preserved software and digital collections. Seth received his Masters in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University. He has previously worked as Project Manager of the Museum of Modern Art’s Electronic Records Archive (MERA) and worked with Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian Institution, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a consultant with AVP.