The National
Archives of Australia has a legislated responsibility to preserve and
make accessible to future generations the records that provide evidence
of the workings of the Commonwealth government. These records are
increasingly originating in a digital form as email, documents, web sites, digital images, audio etc.
Rapid advances in
computer hardware, operating systems, software and storage media create
real challenges for keeping digital records accessible over time. The
Digital Preservation team at the NAA has created software and systems
deployed in a prototype digital archive to maintain access to digital
records.
Michael Carden will explain the rationale, the software, the hardware
and the systems architecture that we have built to make this possible.
A brief bio:
Michael Carden
qualified as an Electronics Mechanic at the Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technology in 1986. He has worked in various parts of the
electronics industry culminating in 12 years with Panasonic Australia
where he taught technicians how to repair communications equipment. He
joined the National Archives in 2004 to help construct their prototype
digital repository and now heads up a team of software and systems
developers as the NAA's Assistant Director of Digital Preservation.
Michael is
delighted to have completed a Masters degree in Information Technology
at the ANU in 2009 and he loves raising his children in Canberra where
he rides and races bicycles for fun.
Further information about some of our software can be found at:
http://xena.sourceforge.net
http://dpr.sourceforge.net
The Main
Monthly Meeting of the PC Users Group (ACT) Incorporated will
be held at the Grant Cameron Community Centre Conference Room, 27
Mulley Street HOLDER ACT 2611. Doors
open at 7:00 PM for a commencement at 7:30 PM.