Report on “The Persistence of Memory”
by Helen Wong Smith & Michael Thomas
Friday, January 25, 2008
Lyman Museum & Mission House – Classroom
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Free & open to the public
The Persistence of Memory conferences were presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. Taught by a faculty of national experts, the conferences address the question of digital longevity. Institutions are rapidly acquiring collections of digitized and born-digital resources. Without intervention, these materials will not survive even a single human career. The two-day conferences highlighted evolving best practices for digital preservation to help with the life-cycle management of an institution’s collections. Helen Wong Smith, MLIS & CA, is the President of the Association of Hawaii Archivists and an Archival/Historical Consultant based in Hilo. Michael B. Thomas, PhD, is Acting Collections Manager of the UHM Herbarium. Both have an interest in creating digital, relational databases to support the objects in collections.
For more information, contact Linda at 935.5021 or lindac@lymanmuseum.org.
Presented in collaboration with Bishop Museum, UHM Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program and Lyman Museum & Mission House
