Elevator Pitch

Our task in Digital Curation this week was to formulate an ‘elevator pitch’ to make the case for establishing a digital preservation programme at our small local authority archive. We chose to make the case for employing a new member of staff who specialises in digital preservation. We were given a fictional scenario which we

Archival Information Packages: X-Rays and Carrie Fisher

This week in our Digital Curation Lab, we were asked to select a type of digital object and think about the metadata we might include to design an archival information package for that object. We split into two smaller groups and each chose a digital object to focus on. Group 1 – Digital images of

Nintendo – Institutional drivers for digital preservation.

Nintendo is known today as one of the world’s leading video game companies. The company started its activity at the end of the 19th century by manufacturing Hanafuda playing cards, or “flower cards”. Nintendo continued in this field until the 1960s, and then expanded production into other areas, such as taxis, hotels, and restaurant chains.