Preserving our Digital Heritage

The NEDLIB (Networked European Deposit Library) project, a consortium of European national deposit libraries (national archives like The British Library in the U.K. and the Library of Congress in the U.S.) was formed by the European Commission to research, design and implement a European-wide system for the preservation of digital media.

When NEDLIB had completed the first two steps of their mission (research and design), they realised that they were in need of way to communicate the necessity of preserving our digital heritage and the function of this super-complex system to a diverse group of lay-people. This group would also include the decision-makers in the European Commission who would eventually approve and fund the system. Or not.

But how do you explain the importance and workings of a highly technical digital deposit library system that build on concepts that originated from NASA?

Blue Hum created an animated (Flash) presentation which takes the viewer on a step-by-step tour of the dSEP system broken down to its simplest concepts. The presentation was integrated in into a NEDLIB website, viewable on-line and also for download. A second version was also made for live presentations. Because of the international nature of the project, the presentation was also translated in several languages.

Blue Hum also created ancillary promotional print media in the form of posters and brochures.