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This
ARENA workshop confronts the vulnerability of digital archives!
Within archaeology there has been an increasing awareness
that this vulnerable data is as much part of the primary site
archive as the artefacts and paper records that have traditionally
found their way into museum stores. The key to good preservation
of digital data is to plan ahead, creating and documenting
archives to meet standards, allowing safe storage, later use
and proper management in the future.
The objective of this workshop is to highlight and discuss
best practice in preservation issues, both in practical and
theoretical terms. In particular the workshop will allow organisations
that have been working on preservation issues to outline their
experiences and to discuss how they dealt with them. The workshop
will also allow for short discussion papers to highlight particular
preservation issues.
The
core of the presentations will be formed by the ARENA partners:
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The Museum Project (Norway).
o The Institute of Archaeology (Iceland).
o CIMeC The Institute for Cultural Memory (Romania).
o Poznan Archaeological Museum (Poland).
o The Danish National Agencv for Cultural Heritage.
o The Archaeology Data Service (UK).
o Other speakers on preservation issues may supplement these.
Keywords:
ARENA, Digital, Archives, Archaeological, Preservation
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