Records Mgmt & Archiving

DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor Joint Training Event: Starting out: Preserving Digital Objects - Principles and Practice
13-17 October 2008

see: http://www.wepreserve.eu/events/prague-2008/

... it's really amazing.
In one year, the amount of photos uploaded to Facebook equal all of the data and images collected by the Hubble space telescope. All of the videos on YouTube are nearly five times the size of the data & images collected by Hubble. And the amount of data processed by Google every 72 minutes?

interesting post from Jill Hurst's blog

WIRED article

ERA has stepped into an operational phase.
As the prime contractor for the ERA project, Lockheed Martin is leading a team of companies with archiving and data management expertise. The team includes BearingPoint Inc., McLean VA; Fenestra Technologies Corp., Germantown, MD; History Associates Inc., Rockville, MD; EDS Corp., Plano, TX; Metier Ltd., Washington, DC; and Tessella Inc., Newton, MA.

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The future of records mgmt is now