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Digital preservation for an uncertain future

Online, November 12th 2024

George & Alex will be presenting at the Digital Preservation Coalition’s (DPC) upcoming online event, Digital preservation for an uncertain future.

From the DPC:

Our speakers will be Trevor Owens (Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics) who will draw out some of the themes from his latest book ‘After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory’; George Oates (Executive Director) and Alex Chan (Tech Lead) (both of the Flickr Foundation) who will share early thinking around establishing a 100 year plan for the future of the photo sharing platform, Flickr; Thomas Keating (Postdoctoral Researcher at Linköping University) who will discuss his work on technology, speculative thinking, and nuclear memory communication and finally Keith Pendergrass (Digital Archivist at Harvard Business School) who will discuss some new ways of thinking about digital preservation in the context of environmental change.

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