@conference {5871, title = {Experiment, Document \& Decide: a Collaborative Approach to Preservation Planning at BnF}, booktitle = {iPRES 2015 : 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation}, year = {2015}, month = {2015/11/03}, publisher = {International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES)}, organization = {International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES)}, address = {Chapell Hill, University of North Carolina}, abstract = {

The National Library of France (BnF) has recently implemented a new module for its Scalable Preservation and Archiving Repository (SPAR) to set up preservation strategies based on formats, agents, workflows, tools and tests, and managed as reference packages in the Archive.

This module aims to fulfill an objective: for SPAR to be fully self-documented. Formats, agents and workflows are formally described and preserved along with the Information packages in which such elements are involved. Although this was a feature that was included from the beginnings of SPAR, the new Preservation Planning module aims to provide a tool that can more easily build these reference packages and that will more closely involve domain experts and the IT department in the processes of preservation planning. But the main innovation lies in the documentation of decisions that directed their selection as standards in SPAR: test data are now preserved as a new kind of reference package.

}, url = {https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/view/o:429538}, author = {Bertrand Caron and St{\'e}phane Reecht and Thomas Ledoux and Jean-Philippe Tramoni} } @conference {3770, title = {Digital curators at work: analyzing emerging professional identities at the Biblioth{\`e}que nationale de France (BnF)}, booktitle = {IFLA WLIC 2014 - Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge, Session 209 - Preservation and Management of Documentary Cultural Heritage - Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation}, year = {2014}, month = {2014/08/21}, publisher = {IFLA}, organization = {IFLA}, address = {Lyon, Auditorium Lumi{\`e}re}, abstract = {

Digital curation is the global concept that includes all aspects of work on digitized and born digital cultural objects: from document entry to data description or indexing, storage, dissemination, and long-term preservation. It is an expanding activity, whose rules and best practices are not globally defined yet. The BnF has chosen to rely on observations on the ground to understand how its staff, faced with the urgent need to collect and preserve a fast-growing digital heritage, is developing new tasks and skills. A dedicated group called ORHION, a French acronym for Observatory of Organizations and Human Resources under Digital Influence, has launched a series of studies on professional identities that are particularly affected by the increasing shift to digital activities. It has so far completed its analysis of two subjects: metadata curation and digital entries. In order to assess the BnF{\textquoteright}s practices, ORHION also relies on other institutions{\textquoteright} experiences. It has for instance organized a workshop on web archive curation during this year{\textquoteright}s general assembly of the International Internet Preservation Consortium, in May 2014. This paper focuses on the findings of these three use case analyses: the switch from cataloguing to metadata management for description and access; the processes and agents involved in digital entries; and the organization, skills and training of web curating teams. Based on these three experiences, this paper seeks to identify some key trends in digital curation: the notion of digital collection itself is not obvious and needs to be rethought; professional identities are challenged by the apparition of new tasks and the emergence of new actors; stakeholders struggle to understand their own roles and responsibilities in more complex treatment channels. Training staff and sharing the workload between the first pioneers and the rest of the teams are necessary to involve all professionals in digital curation.

}, url = {http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/934}, author = {Marianne Clatin and Louise Fauduet and Cl{\'e}ment Oury and Jean-Philippe Tramoni} } @conference {3840, title = {The ARK Identifier Scheme: Lessons Learnt at the BnF and Questions Yet Unanswered}, booktitle = {DC-2014 " Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural Memory " }, year = {2014}, month = {2014/10/10}, publisher = {International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications}, organization = {International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications}, address = {Austin, Texas, USA}, url = {http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2014/paper/view/241 }, author = {S{\'e}bastien Peyrard and Jean-Philippe Tramoni and Jean-Philippe Kunze} }