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Ricc Ferrante

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.

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