contact us
search
Challenges of digital curation topic of visiting scholar
Feb. 26, 2008—On Feb. 21 and 22, Dr. Raymond J. van Diessen, senior managing consultant for IBM Global Business Services in the Netherlands, visited Chapel Hill to give two talks and interact with members of the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) community. His visit is part of the DigCCurr project, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
On Thursday, Feb. 21, van Diessen spoke at a SILS seminar course, "Digital Curation: Applications and Challenges." He shared information and insights about collaborative digital collection building activities of IBM and the National Library of the Netherlands.
On Friday, Feb. 22, he gave a presentation as part of the Center for Research in Digital Libraries (CRADLE) talk series. He discussed Preservation Manager and the Universal Virtual Computer, two systems that are at the leading edge of research and development in the digital preservation arena.
About Raymond J. van Diessen
Raymond J. van Diessen received a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same university in 1997. He joined the IBM in the Netherlands in 1996, and is currently a managing consultant within the same organization.
Since 2000, he has been responsible for the ongoing joint IBM/National Library of the Netherlands study on long-term preservation of digital objects, which was initiated as a complement to IBM's implementation of the DIAS deposit system (Digital Information Archiving System). The last three year his research has been focused on the Universal Virtual Computer (UVC) to preserve digital objects for the long term and the preservation manager to maintain the relevant technical metadata needed to plan and execute preservation activities.
He also represents IBM in PLANETS, a four-year project funded by the European Commission Information Science and Technologies Framework Program 6 Call 5 (FP6 Call 5). The Planets project brings together European National Libraries and Archives, leading research institutions, and technology companies to address the challenge of preserving access to digital cultural and scientific knowledge.
About DigCCurr
DigCCurr is a three-year, collaborative project funded by the IMLS, which is developing an openly accessible, graduate-level curricular framework, course modules, and experiential and enrichment components and exemplars necessary to prepare students to work in the 21st century environment of trusted digital and data repositories.