The Future of Welsh

Repositories Jake Henry, “Welsh Experience of WW1 Project”, NLW

Conclusions

• The WRN successfully set up institutional repositories across Wales.

• Provision for the long term digital storage of special collections materials is currently lacking.

• Without a consistent development path, the equitable repository environment set up through the WRN will begin to fragment.

• There is a clear demand for resources and support to provide advice and practical help to institutions wanting to maintain and develop their repositories.

• There is strong interest in the idea of a central repository service which institutions would be able to join.

Partner Material Ingest Process Overview

http://www.cymru1914.org/

Screen and Sound Archive

• To preserve, promote and celebrate the sound and moving image heritage of Wales.

• ITV Wales Archive project digitising thousands of hours of Video and Film.

• Unlocking Film Heritage project with BFI creating very high quality copies of important historic film.

• A lot of AV content is a risk of being lost forever because of hardware and software obsolescence and the limited lifespan of film.

MabLab

• MabLab is a three year National Library of Wales project which aims to establish a system to ingest, preserve and provide access to born digital archives and material.

• Digital archives are at risk of being lost for ever because of hardware and software obsolescence and the dangers of bit rot and data loss.

• 3 full time and 2 part time members of staff.