Archiving the Digital: Preserving Computer-Aided Design (4/16)

Speaker: Alex Ball (UKOLN), University of Bath

Filmed 17 October 2013 at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London

Alex Ball presents findings from the 2013 Digital Preservation Coalition Report 'Preserving Computer-Aided Design' and assesses what we are losing by collecting CAD files as normalised objects (PDFs).

Recorded at the 'Archiving the Digital: Current Efforts to Preserve Design Records', a two-day conference organised by the British Architectural Library (RIBA) and the Victoria and Albert Museum to raise awareness about the continued need for collaborative efforts to manage and preserve digital design records/data.