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Digital Archiving: format conversion and archiving [links]
One of the fundamental assumptions behind DPAC is that the memory gap society faces as a result of technology change is enormous and widespread, and generally not being tackled well enough.
We need to begin assessing the issue properly and collecting information to use to assert our case in funding apps and promotions. Here are some links I'm currently finding on the 'net that will be useful in building our case and planning the archiving process.
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AGM minutes posted, forum discussions
The minutes of our first AGM have been posted at http://digitalpoetryarchive.ca/minutes_AGM09 and we're on our way with a Board of Directors and the beginnings of a gameplan.
Please use our new forum discussions: http://digitalpoetryarchive.ca/forum
First order of business: confirm the bank account, get our funding options lined up with a description of our first pilot project, establish good communications habits.
Open Archival Information System
The Open Archival Information System (ISO 14721:2003) is an ISO standard written to address a problem like ours: enduring archives of interest to a particular community. It was defined after the problem was addressed by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (that's right, SPACE agencies!).
I suggest that we use this standard as an organising method. I will post the PDF here later, but for now you can get it and read it from the CCSDS website by downloading it directly.
Internet = poetry boom
The Guardian is running a story about how social networking and easy publishing is creating a resurgent interest in poetry. The article also references the Poetry Archive project.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/4863351/Internet-is-ca...
