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User:Rpreston
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Hello, I'm Randy Preston, Project Coordinator for the InterPARES (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) Project [1], an international research project headquartered in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
I will be attending the Advanced Electronic Records Management pre-conference workshop on Tuesday, and will also have a booth (#51) in the Expo area on Friday where I will be distributing (for free, of course!) some of the InterPARES 2 Project’s recent digital records preservation products (e.g., Creator [2] and Preserver [3] Guidelines, Policy Framework [4], and the General Study 11 report on Selecting Digital File Formats for Long-term Preservation [5]). Brief descriptions of each of these products can be found in our Preservation Resources brochure [6], which will also be available at the InterPARES booth.
I will also be distributing information about the third phase of the InterPARES Project research (i.e., InterPARES 3), which is a five-year multi-national project—involving 17 countries on 5 continents—that will begin in September of this year and run until August 2012.
If the creation, maintenance and long-term preservation of authentic, reliable and accurate digital records is something that you are currently involved with, or is something you wish to learn more about, please feel free to stop by the InterPARES Expo booth on Friday and help yourself to our free literature. I will be available all day to answer any questions you may have regarding your involvement with managing digital resources and the applicability to the InterPARES research, its findings and its upcoming third phase to your preservation activities.
Best wishes to all for a productive and informative conference!
Randy
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Randy Preston
Project Coordinator, InterPARES Project
The University of British Columbia
Suite 301-6190 Agronomy Road
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3 Canada
tel: +1(604) 822-2694 fax: +1(604) 822-1200
rpreston@interchange.ubc.ca
www.interpares.org


