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Matthew Burgess

Matthew Burgess

Lead Digital Archivist at the State Library of New South Wales, specializing in digital preservation, born-digital collections curation, and digitisation practices.

Jun 2, 2026

10:00
[laughs]
10:00
But what we're using it for is, um, looking at that hard drive and trying to make a selection on what is relevant as an archive from that individual, whether it's a person, or it could be a business or, or whatever.
10:15
Um, so that, that's kind of one approach.
10:18
But another approach is to actually go to the author, and we did this with Charlotte Wood, and say, "All right, organize your digital files for us," in the same way that we would with the physical collection.

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19:47
Mm.
19:47
So you want three copies on two different technologies and one in a different location entirely.
19:52
'Cause you basically want multiple copies to account for natural disasters, like man-made disasters, whatever could happen to that data source.
20:04
You know, there's, there's documented examples of, particularly overseas, where, um, I think it was Korea recently, they had a fire at a data center, and there was a government mandate for all of their, uh...

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