Preserve or Preserve Not, There is No Try: some dilemmas relating to Personal Digital Archiving
David Pearson
David is currently the Manager of the Digital Preservation Section at the National Library of Australia (NLA). During 2007, he was the APSR Project Manager at the NLA working on the Australian METS Profile and the AONS II (Automatic Obsolescence Notification System, version II) projects. Before joining the NLA, amongst other duties over five years, David designed, built and subsequently became the Repository Manager for the National Archives of Australian’s Digital Repository. He also supervised various physical format media recovery projects. David’s academic background is in the field of archaeology.