This community may be interested in recent preservation-related videos from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint project of EDUCAUSE and the Association of Research Libraries that focuses on the intersection of technology and information management/libraries, especially in higher education and the research enterprise. Digital preservation figured prominently in recent presentations, including:

-MetaArchive Across Its Life Cycle: Change and Resilience in the Digital Preservation Ecosystem
https://youtu.be/UfKYpx69ASE 

The panel will discuss how community-owned and -led digital infrastructure can, and should, incorporate contingencies for sunsetting into sustainability planning and how to embody core values and address diverse member needs throughout the sunset process. Through its twenty years of operation, MetaArchive, the first and longest-running Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) has been consistently defining what it entails to be a digital preservation network created and hosted by and for memory organizations. Now, as the first PLN to undergo a deliberative sunset, there is the opportunity to share lessons in how endings can be carried out with as much intention and care as beginnings. In a time of field- and nation-wide change and transition, investments in shared infrastructure and inter-institutional communities of practice are more valuable than ever for building a resilient information ecosystem—only collectively can we guarantee access to our cultural heritage in the long term.


-Preserving Billions of Photos? Try Data Lifeboat
https://youtu.be/lCZq_Tv3wOE

Flickr is huge; it contains billions of images. It’s a unique visual history collection, and the Flickr Foundation believes it is time to figure out how to preserve it for future viewers to enjoy. But, it is simply too big for any contemporary archive to take on, so the Foundation developed Data Lifeboat, a simple packaging service to bundle up slivers of Flickr for preservation elsewhere. A Data Lifeboat is designed to contain images and metadata and to jettison the more standard web archive for a format that is content- and context-focussed.


-Safeguarding Audiovisual Data
https://youtu.be/ZKlxDCxTlJc

The panel will discuss safeguarding the world’s most important audiovisual data, featuring perspectives from David Rowntree, former archivist of the International Criminal Court in the Hague who tried to organize the Yugoslavia and Rwanda war crimes interviews; Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, which has been creating a collection of the January 6th insurrection and other material the government is now deleting; and Peter B. Kaufman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open Learning (whose video work is now supported by the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web).

The videos are openly available. 

Sincerely,

Paige Pope, CNI Communications Manager

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