Main Monthly Meeting: February 2010


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MAIN MONTHLY MEETING
Thursday 11 February 2010
(7pm for a 7.30pm start)

DIGITAL PRESERVATION OF RECORDS AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA

presented by
Michael Carden, Technical Manager of Digital Preservation at the Archives



The National Archives of Australia has a legislated responsibility to preserve and make accessible to future generations the records that provide evidence of the workings of the Commonwealth government. These records are increasingly originating in a digital form as email, documents, web sites, digital images, audio etc.

Rapid advances in computer hardware, operating systems, software and storage media create real challenges for keeping digital records accessible over time. The Digital Preservation team at the NAA has created software and systems deployed in a prototype digital archive to maintain access to digital records.

Michael Carden will explain the rationale, the software, the hardware and the systems architecture that we have built to make this possible.


A brief bio:

Michael Carden qualified as an Electronics Mechanic at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1986. He has worked in various parts of the electronics industry culminating in 12 years with Panasonic Australia where he taught technicians how to repair communications equipment. He joined the National Archives in 2004 to help construct their prototype digital repository and now heads up a team of software and systems developers as the NAA's Assistant Director of Digital Preservation.

Michael is delighted to have completed a Masters degree in Information Technology at the ANU in 2009 and he loves raising his children in Canberra where he rides and races bicycles for fun.

Further information about some of our software can be found at:

http://xena.sourceforge.net
http://dpr.sourceforge.net


The Main Monthly Meeting of the PC Users Group (ACT) Incorporated will be held at the Grant Cameron Community Centre Conference Room, 27 Mulley Street HOLDER ACT 2611. Doors open at 7:00 PM for a commencement at 7:30 PM.


FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

 The monthly meetings are free. Members, friends and the public are invited to attend. Don’t rush home after the meeting! Stay for coffee, tea, biscuits and good company. It’s all free! Renew acquaintances, meet new people and ask those questions you didn’t get a chance to ask at the meeting! Membership inquiries are welcomed! Email inquiries to pcug.mmm@pcug.org.au or phone 02-6287-2922.



Previous Meetings

2010


February 2010

"DIGITAL PRESERVATION OF RECORDS AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA" with Michael Carden
Link to PDF slides used at the presentation.

2009

November 2009

"Cyberspace and Crime" with John Broome. Link to PDF slides used at the presentation.
October 2009

PCUG AGM & Presentation from Deafness Resource Centre with Jack White
September 2009

"Online Resources and Family History Programs" with Julie Hesse
(Computer Manager of the Heraldry and Genealogy Society)
August 2009

'Aspects of Photography when Holidaying - Contrasting the Fundamentals of Digital and Film Photography (Jeff Colwell)
July 2009

"Playing with Fire" presented by David and Linda (Rathgeber) Nicholls, joint authors of a book on the Macromedia Fireworks 4 software. Please click here to access the link to the tutorials online used at the presentation, along with other interesting tutorials.
June 2009

Zen and the Art of Databases, with Peter Barker.
May 2009

(no presentation this month)
April 2009

Backing Up Drives and Data Using Acronis True Image, with Mike Boesen and Terry Bibo. Please click here to access post meeting information about the presentation.
March 2009

Windows7, with Andrew Miles
February 2009

Wild Beasts Captured on African Safari, with Graham Paul.
2008


November 2008

"Johnny boy's Walkabout Blog"  with John Evans
October 2008

1. "Getting to places google can't find - the hidden web revealed" with Eleanor Whelan. Follow-up notes from presentation (pdf file)
2. PCUG AGM
3. PCUG Volunteer of the Year for 2008 awared to Muriel Bromley Marsh
September 2008


August 2008

The Silicon Kid  (Matthew Purcel)
July 2008

No Meeting
June 2008

Healthy Computer Practices (Janine Robertson) & Access Database (Philip Veerman)
May 2008

ABC Radio Interactive Website
April 2008

IMPLEMENTING A BACKUP AND RECOVERY STRATEGY FOR WINDOWS PCs, with Mike Boesen. Link to Mike's Article
March 2008

Audacity Sample Workshop, with Basil McMillan.
mmm info brochure (pdf)

Basil's presentation notes: (ppt 1.8MB) (pdf 938k)
Overview of PCUG Training, with Ann Byrne.
February 2008

Digital Imaging with Jeff Colwell



2007    
November 2007

Finn Blucher from Novell, presented OpenOffice.org
October 2007

PCUG AGM & 'Your Questions Answered' Q&A Panel
September 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 (Denise Holehouse, a Solution Specialist  with Microsoft Australia)
August 2007

Linux Open SUSE 10.2 (Chris Gacesa)  Presentation  Notes (PDF File) 1.56Mb download
July 2007

Microsoft VISTA (Derek Moir)     Presentation Notes (PDF File) 772k download
June 2007

Apollo and the ACT (John Saxon & Mike Dinn)  John's Presentation Notes (PDF File) 4Mb download  Mike's Presentation Notes (PDF File) 4Mb download
May 2007

Norton 360 All-In-One Security (David Hall & Natalie Conor)
April 2007
  Vista - cancelled with apologies due to illness. Presentation to be rescheduled
March 2007
  Preventative Maintenance for Windows PCs (Mike Boesen)
Article: http://members.pcug.org.au/~boesen/maintenance/maintenance.htm
2006    
November 2006
  A Use for a Pentium100 (Rod Peters) and Security for YOUR PC (Terry Bibo)
October 2006
  Special General Meeting and Annual General Meeting. Meeting Outline. Minutes from Meetings
September 2006
   PICASA (with Mike Boesen) Mike has put the notes on his site, so that anyone can access the pdf file directly from this page: http://www.pcug.org.au/~boesen/picasa2/picasanotes.htm
August 2006

eCensus
July 2006

Q&A Session, SIG Info, Training Overview
June 2006

VOIP (Voice Over IP) and Fileserver with Mathew Smith (from IBM)
May 2006

Microsoft Australia enlightened us about VISTA
April 2006

The PANDORA Archive
March 2006
  Electronic voting and counting for ACT Legislative Assembly election
February 2006
  Home PC Security in a Windows XP environment - Andrew Miles of Microsoft
PDF of Andrew's Presentation
2005    
November 2005
  Flight Simulator
October 2005
  Annual General Meeting
September 2005
  Free Software - From A to Z
August 2005
  The Silicon Kid
July 2005
  Voice Recognition Software & PICASA2
June 2005
  Digital Photography
May 2005
  PC Checkup - How To Keep Ypour PC Healthy
April 2005
  Backups and Spyware Destroyers
March 2005
  Why Is Linux and Open Source Software Rapidly Gaining a Huge Following in Personal Computing?
February 2005
  Free Software Development Methology

2004

   
November
  Trials of an Editor - David Kidd editor of Australian PC Authority
October   Home Automation and Introducing Linux
September   Annual General Meeting - Election Results
August   Cheaper, More Accessible Software - Open Source Software
July   NET PROFIT: Investing on the Internet
June   Genealogy: Sleuthing the Past
May   The PCUG Air Show
April   What you Need to Know about Viruses

 


Last Updated on 26July2009

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