Tag Archives: digital preservation

The House of Books: Manuscripts and religious identity in Iraq

Father Najeeb Michaeel is an Iraqi Christian priest who speaks Arabic, English, French, Aramaic and Syriac, not to mention being able to read Latin and Greek. In the garden of Zaytun library, Erbil I hear this gentle man tell me how his community of friars used to live in Mosul, a traditional centre for Christianity [...]

The House of Books: Erbil, Iraq

“What you destroy, we will rebuild, only better” – Slogan of Kurdish Peshmerga. The garden I am standing in is so beautiful that I find it difficult to imagine that it was a former detention centre  operated by Saddam Hussain’s Ba’ath party, a place  of imprisonment and torture.  It is now a garden full of  [...]

Digital Forensics and creation of a narrative

I was very interested to hear Jeremy Leighton John speaking about the nature of digital forensics at the recent DPC event on Digital Forensics. He worked on the “Digital Lives” project at the BL as part of their eManuscripts lab. The day began with his overview and ended with the demo of a powerful analysis [...]

Fáilte gu Ghlaschu!

  The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  ~Sydney J. Harris Football and digital preservation seem an unlikely combination but on May 15th Ed and I arrived to a slightly damp Glasgow celebrating en masse the end of the football season, to deliver our DPTP north of the border.  There, I [...]

DPTP at the NAS – legal admissibility

We recently gave a two-day version of the Digital Preservation Training Programme to the National Archives of Scotland. Our timing was quite interesting; we arrived on the Monday the week after NAS had merged with the General Register Office, to become a new body called the National Records of Scotland. And just days before, the [...]