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Hi, I'm Ricc Ferrante, the Smithsonian Institution Archives' Information Technology Archivist and director of Digital Services. Digital Services here includes our digital preservation and curation, digitization, electronic records management  and our web-based outreach activities. My primary focus since joining the Archives has been to tackle the preservation and curation of our more "thorny" formats and born digital objects, including email accounts, websites and social media. We have also been doing a lot in the area of digital video, DAT tapes and computer-aided design documents – some solutions but also a number of painfully discovered dead-ends.  Standards and best practices are near and dear to my heart, so I'm grateful to participate in the video and technical metadata part of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative effort and, previously, in the work to define the Audit and Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories standard (CCSDS 652.0 / ISO 16363) that is currently open for public comment. I also enjoy hosting internships as a way to invest in the future curation and preservation successes of archives a few generations down the road.

Bradley Daigle

Greetings, everyone. I am Bradley Daigle, Director of Digital Curation Services and Digital Strategist for Special Collections. I am also PI on The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's funded project: Born Digital Materials: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship (AIMS) along with Martha Sites. I have worked at UVa for over 10 year and in varying capacities. Currently, I am responsible for the life-cycle of the digital object here at UVa Library. That means from digitization to repository environment to collections strategy to digital preservation (stewardship). I directly oversee digitization and stewardship but am largely responsible for the functional requirements for said content in our managed environments. I also do a great deal of work with intellectual property and reuse of our digital assets. My area will be working very closely with Special Collections with respect to born digital materials.

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