Julia Kim and Shira Peltzman, graduates of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program in Tisch's Department of Cinema Studies and both National Digital Stewardship Residents in 2014-15, will co-present a paper at the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) in Bern, Switzerland, on Monday, October 3, 2016. The iPRES conference series "brings together key theorists, researchers and practitioners to explore the latest trends, innovations, policies, and practices in digital preservation."
Kim (MIAP '14) is now a Folklife Specialist and Digital Assets Manager at the Library of Congress. Peltzman (MIAP '13) is a Digital Archivist at UCLA Library. With fellow members of their 2014-15 Residency cohort—Karl-Rainer Blumenthal (now at the Internet Archive), Peggy Griesinger (George Mason University Libraries), and Vicky Steeves (NYU Libraries)—they co-authored "What makes a digital steward: A competency profile based on the National Digital Stewardship Residencies" (2016), which they will present together at the conference in Bern. The paper "provides a profile of the skills, responsibilities, and knowledge areas that define competency in digital stewardship, based on a close study of the projects undertaken in the National Digital Stewardship Residency program (NDSR)."
The Library of Congress, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, created the NDSR program in 2013 “to build a dedicated community of professionals who will advance our nation's capabilities in managing, preserving, and making accessible the digital record of human achievement.” Joining Kim and Peltzman in the ranks of recent MIAP graduates to earn one of these coveted residencies are Eddy Colloton (MIAP '16), Carmel Curtis (MIAP '15), Rebecca Fraimow (MIAP '13), Genevieve Havemeyer-King (MIAP '15), Joseph Heinen (MIAP '14), Lorena Ramirez-Lopez (MIAP '15), and Erica Titkemeyer (MIAP '13).