Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Previously, he had been a professor of library and information science and was in charge of information management for two museums.Besser has been involved with digital stewardship since the 1980s and has taught numerous classes and professional workshops on the topic.In 2009, he was named to the Library of Congress's select list of "Pioneers of Digital Preservation."He participated in the creation of several library metadata standards, including PREMIS (preservation metadata implementation strategies), Dublin Core, and METS (metadata encoding and transmission standard).He has published more than 50 articles dealing with information technology and cultural institutions, including copyright, privacy, and the preservation of cell phone data and social media.For many years, Besser was actively involved in developing and testing new methods for using technology to teach.He has written extensively on distance learning and on using the Web to deliver instructional material.In the 1990s, he taught distance learning courses at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Los Angeles.Besser helped initiate and then led the Preserving Digital Public Television project (part of the National Digital Infrastructure Preservation Program), headed the Video at Risk project, and helped lead a project to redesign the architecture of web crawling to accommodate streaming media (the Mellon Composers project).
Source: portal Libraries and the Academy
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4412038277