Interviews
The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is conducting a series of interviews with the formal partners who were part of the Sept. 30, 2004, cooperative agreements, Library of Congress staff who are working with the NDIIPP partners, and experts in the field of digital preservation and the issues associated with it.
Preservation Partners
Following is an interview with staff of the MetaArchive project, being led by Emory University. The MetaArchive project is at www.metaarchive.org/.
Read the Emory University interview
Following is an interview with Nan Rubin, project director of the Preserving Public Television project. The interview was completed in August 2005. More details on Thirteen’s project can be found at www.ptvdigitalarchive.org.
The interview with David Kirsch of the University of Maryland is the first in this series. Kirsch is leading the NDIIPP project called "The Birth of the Dot Com Era."
Library of Congress Staff
The interview with Carl Fleischhauer is the first in this series. Fleischhauer is program manager for the project called "Preserving Digital Public Television," which is being led by Thirteen/WNET New York with the WGBH Educational Foundation of Boston, the Public Broadcasting Service of Alexandria, Va., and New York University.
Read the Fleischhauer interview
Experts in Digital Preservation
Following is an interview with Clay Shirky, who divides his time among consulting, teaching and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. Shirky has done consulting work for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. He is also an adjunct professor in New York University's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program.
The interview with Peter Lyman is the first in this series. Lyman is a professor in the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley.