Abstract
Patricia (Pat) Manson worked with the European Commission's (EC’s) research programmes from the early 1990s, initially as project officer (December 1991-March 2003) and then as Head of Unit (April 2003-2011) for Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning which was part of the Directorate General Information Society and Media. The unit focused primarily on research in digital libraries, digital preservation, and in the use of ICTs for improving learning, but was also involved in the development of the i2010 digital libraries policies and actions. Prior to joining the Commission, she worked in the UK providing a national advisory and market watch service to libraries on the use of new technologies. She is now Head of the Inclusion, Skills & Youth Unit of the EC’s Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), where the unit’s goal is to ensure that citizens, especially youth and those at risk of exclusion, are best able to benefit from the Internet and have the necessary skills so to do. This article sets out Pat’s leadership of EC-funded Digital Preservation, and examines her legacy in terms of lasting best practices, contributions to standardisation activities etc.
Highlights
In the mid-nineties, major initiatives in Digital Preservation started to coalesce at an international level
This paper reflects on the lasting outcomes of this European Union (EU)-funded Digital Preservation activity, but due to the wealth and breadth of the subject, it is necessarily non-exhaustive
Tout cela est bien quelque chose: Digital Preservation Today workshop members. It was the Luxembourg workshop in December 1995 (European Commission, 1996) that drew together national libraries and publishers to consider how best to tackle the legal and preservation issues connected to dealing with electronic publications
Summary
In the mid-nineties, major initiatives in Digital Preservation started to coalesce at an international level. This paper reflects on the lasting outcomes of this EU-funded Digital Preservation activity, but due to the wealth and breadth of the subject, it is necessarily non-exhaustive. We lean heavily on the comprehensive analysis of EC-funded Digital Preservation by Strodl et al in 2011, which listed the main relevant EC policies/actions; together with an overview of the key projects and their main aims and objectives. We draw on Adrian Brown’s excellent Practical Digital Preservation (2013) with its comprehensive overview of useful tools and standardisation activities. The analysis is interwoven with contemporaneous input from Pat’s own papers, presentations and official EC publications, to give a sense of how she guided and shaped EC-funded Digital Preservation. A key focus is on how standardisation activities/best practices within Digital Preservation developed over this period
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