The speakers report on the findings of a 2012 CoSA-supported self-assessment of the current state of digital preservation capability of 50 state and six territorial archives. A panel representing three state archives programs with different levels of digital preservation capability enriches this summary and engages the audience through descriptions of their efforts to engage in digital preservation improvement initiatives.
Independent records management and digital preservation consultant with a passion for developing cross-functional approaches to jumpstart and sustain collaboration among stakeholders who share accountability for effective and efficient life cycle controls over valued records and information... Read More →
Four decades experience in electronic records management and digital preservation as a historian, archivist, archival educator, and consultant. SAA and AIIM Fellow, and recipient of the Emmett J. Leahy Award
Digital Archivist, University of Colorado at Boulder
Walker Sampson is the Digital Archivist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, He is interested in digital forensics as applied to preservation practice, video game preservation, and repository software and technologies to manage born digital material in aggregate. He holds an... Read More →
Mike Strom has been the Wyoming State Archivist since 2011. Before arriving in Cheyenne, Mike was the Senior Archivist at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. He began his career at Yale University as a processing archivist.