Talks by David S. H. Rosenthal and Vicky Reich

2021

• FEBRUARY 16, 2021 David Rosenthal gave a condensed and updated version of "Can We Mitigate the Externalities of Cryptocurrencies?" to the Bace Cybersecurity Institute. The text of the talk is here.
• FEBRUARY 9, 2021 David Rosenthal gave an updated version of "Can We Mitigate the Externalities of Cryptocurrencies?" to Stanford's EE380 course. The text of the talk is here. Video of the talk and the Q&A is here. Cory Doctorow commented on the talk in Comprehensive synthesis of the technological, ecological and political critique of blockchainism.

2021

• DECEMBER 8, 2021 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled "Can We Mitigate the Externalities of Cryptocurrencies?" at Institutional Investors' [next]2021 conference.
• OCTOBER 8, 2021 David Rosenthal appeared on a panel discussing "Blockchain Security and Risk Mitigation" at the University of Arkansas' "Blockchain for Business" conference. The text of the talk is here.
• FEBRUARY 5, 2021 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled "Securing The Digital Supply Chain" to UC Berkeley i-school’s Information Access Seminar.

2019

• JULY 30, 2019 David Rosenthal gave a briefing to the Dept. of Defense SMA program with an updated version of "Blockchain: What's Not To Like?".
• APRIL 25, 2019 David Rosenthal gave an updated version of "Blockchain: What's Not To Like?" at the Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop.

2018

• DECEMBER 10-11, 2018 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled "Blockchain: What's Not To Like?" at CNI's Fall Membership Meeting. Video of the talk, and audio of a related interview, are embedded in this blog post.
• NOVEMBER 2, 2018 David Rosenthal previewed his CNI talk "Blockchain: What's Not To Like?" at the UC Berkeley i-school’s Information Access Seminar.
• OCTOBER 3, 2018 Vicky Reich gave a brief talk at the Internet Archive's Annual Bash.
• MAY 31, 2018 Vicky Reich retired and was awarded emeritus status at Stanford.
• MAY 16, 2018 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “The Medium-Term Prospects For Long-Term Storage” (updating this blog post), and a brief talk summarizing DNA’s Niche in the Storage Market in the 34^th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2018) at Santa Clara University. The text of the longer talk is here and the text of the shorter talk is here.
• MARCH 5, 2018 David Rosenthal gave a brief talk summarizing DNA’s Niche in the Storage Market for a workshop at Cold Spring Harbor’s Banbury Center.
• FEBRUARY 22, 2018 David Rosenthal gave a brief talk entitled “Collaborating on Emulation” to the session on Technical and Legal Issues at the Video Game Preservation Workshop: Setting the Stage for Multi-Partner Projects at Stanford. The text of the talk with links to the sources is here.

2017

• NOVEMBER 7-9, 2017 David Rosenthal gave a keynote entitled “The Amnesiac Civilization” at the 2017 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. The text of the talk, with links to the sources and additional material in footnotes, is here.
• OCTOBER 20, 2017 David Rosenthal previewed his PNC keynote at the UC Berkeley i-school’s Information Access Seminar.
• FEBRUARY 28, 2017 David Rosenthal retired.

2016

• OCTOBER 3-4, 2016 David Rosenthal appeared on a panel on Software Preservation at the 2016 iPRES conference in Bern, Switzerland.
• JULY 6-7, 2016 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled Emulation and Virtualization as Preservation Strategies at the JISC/CNI Conference in Oxford, UK.
• MAY 16-17, 2016 David Rosenthal took part in a workshop on The Future Of Storage at Columbia University.
• APRIL 12-11, 2016 David Rosenthal appeared on a panel “Building API-Based Web Archiving Systems and Services” and gave a talk entitled The Architecture of Emulation on the Web at the IIPC’s 2016 General Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland.
• APRIL 3-4, 2016 David Rosenthal took part in a CNI pre-meeting entitled Digital Preservation of Federal Information Summit in San Antonio, TX.
• MARCH 10-11, 2016 David Rosenthal gave two talks, “Private LOCKSS Networks” and “Evolving the LOCKSS Technology” at the 2016 PASIG meeting in Prague, Czech Republic..

2015

• DECEMBER 15, 2015 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “Emulation and Virtualization as Preservation Strategies” at the Fall CNI meeting. It was based on his recent report for the Mellon Foundation with the same title. Video of the somewhat embarrassing attempt to do live demos via the hotel WiFi is here.
• OCTOBER 2, 2015 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “Emulation and Virtualization as Preservation Strategies” at the UC Berkeley i-school’s Information Access Seminar. It was based on his recent report for the Mellon Foundation with the same title.
• SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” at Stanford’s EE380 seminar. It was a slightly updated version of this earlier talk. Video is on YouTube.
• JUNE 5, 2015 Vicky Reich gave a talk entitled “Preserving File Transfer Content In A Web Preservation Framework” and David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “Web Archiving APIS: Why and Which?” at the workshop “Web Archiving Collaboration: New Tools and Models” at Columbia. An edited text of David’s talk with links to the sources is here
• MAY 1, 2015 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “LOCKSS: Collaborative Distributed Web Archiving For Libraries” at the IIPC General Assembly. An edited text with links to the sources is here.

2014

• DECEMBER 8-9, 2014 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “Improving The Odds Of Preservation” at the Fall CNI meeting. An edited text with links to the sources is here.
• NOVEMBER 18, 2014 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “Costs: Why Do We Care?” at the Investing in Opportunity: Policy Practice and Planning for a Sustainable Digital Future conference sponsored by the 4C project and the Digital Preservation Coalition. An edited text with links to the sources is here.
• NOVEMBER 13, 2014 David Rosenthal gave a brief talk entitled “Storage Will Be / A Lot Less Free / Than It Used To Be” at the Storage Valley Supper Club. An edited text with links to the sources is here.
• SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “Economic Sustainability of Digital Preservation” at the 3^rd EUDAT Conference. An edited text of David’s presentation with links to the sources is here.
• SEPTEMBER 23, 2014 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “A Challenge to the Storage Industry” at the Library of Congress’ Designing Storage Architectures workshop. An edited text of David’s presentation with links to the sources is here.
• MAY 13, 2014 David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “Storage Will Be/Much Less Free/Than It Used To Be” at Seagate. An edited text of David’s presentation with links to the sources is here.
• APRIL 3, 2014 David Rosenthal gave a seminar entitled “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” at UC Berkeley’s SwarmLab. An edited text of David’s presentation with links to the sources is here.
• MARCH 31-APRIL 1, 2014 David Rosenthal was on a panel at an ISAT/DARPA workshop entitled “The EverCloud: Anticipating and Countering Cloud-Rot” that arose from Yale’s EverCloud project. An edited text of David’s brief presentation with links to the sources is here.
• MARCH 7, 2014 David Rosenthal gave a seminar on “The Half-Empty Archive” in the UC Berkeley School of Information’s course IA 296. An edited text of David’s presentation with links to the sources is here.
• FEBRUARY 18, 2014 David Rosenthal presented at and ran a BOF on Long-Term Storage at USENIX’s FAST conference.
• JANUARY 21, 2014 David Rosenthal gave a revised and extended version of his ANADP II talk to the staff of the British Library.

2013

• NOVEMBER 18-20, 2013 Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal ran a session entitled New Models of Collaborative Preservation at the Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation meeting in Barcelona, Spain. An edited text of David’s introductory talk with links to the sources is here.
• SEPTEMBER 23-24, 2013 David Rosenthal took part in a panel on Cloud Challenges as part of the Library of Congress’ Designing Storage Architectures meeting. An edited text with links to the sources is here.
• SEPTEMBER 5-6, 2013 David Rosenthal took part in a workshop on Preservation at Scale as part of iPres 2013, Lisbon, Portugal. An edited text with links to the slides is here. And a brief presentation to the workshop on Preserving RDF Vocabularies is here
• JULY 23-24, 2013 David Rosenthal took part in a panel on Green Bytes at the Digital Preservation 2013 conference, Arlington VA. An edited text of his talk with links to the sources is here.
• JUNE 13-14, 2013 Vicky Reich spoke and David Rosenthal was on a panel at the 17^th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Karlskrona, Sweden. David’s brief opening remarks are on his blog.
• APRIL 23-26, 2013 David Rosenthal attended the 2013 IIPC General Assembly and gave three talks; Making Memento Successful, Not Your Grandfather’s Web Any More and LOCKSS Metadata Extraction.
• APRIL 4-5, 2013 Not Your Grandfather’s Web Any More David Rosenthal spoke at the Spring 2013 CNI meeting in San Antonio, TX. An edited text with links is here. Video is available on YouTube and Vimeo.
• JANUARY 14-17, 2013 David Rosenthal presented the paper Distributed Digital Preservation in the Cloud, co-authored with Daniel Vargas, at IDCC2013 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. An edited text and video are available.

2012

• DECEMBER 10-11, 2012 The Truth is Out There: Preservation and the Cloud David Rosenthal spoke at the CNI Fall 2012 meeting in Washington, DC. A podcast interview is available, as is an edited text of the talk.
• NOVEMBER 19-21, 2012 Is The Future Of Preservation Cloudy? David Rosenthal took part in a workshop entitled Is The Future Of Preservation Cloudy? at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. The workshop report is available.
• NOVEMBER 16, 2012 The Truth is Out There: Preservation and the Cloud David Rosenthal spoke at UC Berkeley School of Information’s Information Access Seminar.
• SEPTEMBER 26-28, 2012 The Memory of the World in the Digital Age. Both Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal presented papers at UNESCO’s The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation conference in Vancouver BC. The text of David’s talk is here. A pre-print of David’s paper is here (PDF).
• SEPTEMBER 20-21, 2012 Designing Storage Architectures for Preservation Collections. David Rosenthal spoke at the Library of Congress’ Designing Storage Architectures for Preservation Collections workshop in Washington DC, discussing this report (PDF). The text is the talk is here.
• MAY 21-23, 2012 Screening the Future II. David Rosenthal took part in a debate and spoke on “Modeling the Economics of Long-term Storage” at the Screening the Future II conference at USC.
• MAY 3, 2012 IIPC General Assembly 2012. David Rosenthal moderated a workshop on Harvesting and Preserving the Future Web during the International Internet Preservation Coalition General Assembly 2012 at the Library of Congress.
• FEBRUARY 24, 2012 Personal Digital Archiving 2012. David Rosenthal spoke on “Modeling the Economics of Long-Term Storage” at the Personal Digital Archiving 2012 conference at the Internet Archive. A blog post with the text and sources is here.
• JANUARY 30, 2012 University of Manchester. David Rosenthal spoke on “Paying for Long-Term Storage” at the University of Manchester’s Computer Science Dept.

2011

• DECEMBER 12-13, 2011 Coalition for Networked Information. David Rosenthal spoke on “Paying for Long-Term Storage” at the Fall CNI meeting in Arlington VA.
• OCTOBER 25, 2011 Open UBC. David Rosenthal spoke on “What Problems Are We Trying To Solve?” at Open UBC, the University of British Columbia’s celebration of International Open Access Week. An edited text is here.
• OCTOBER 24, 2011 Private LOCKSS Network Community. David Rosenthal spoke on “From What Are We Preserving Digital Information?” at the Private LOCKSS Network Community meeting in Vancouver BC.
• OCTOBER 18, 2011 UC Santa Cruz. David Rosenthal was a guest speaker in the UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering course CMPS290S on archival storage. An edited text is here.
• OCTOBER 6, 2011 Special Library Association, Silicon Valley Chapter. Philip Gust, “Cloud Computing for Librarians and Digital Curators”. Video.
• SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 Library of Congress Storage Workshop. David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “Modeling the Economics of Long-Term Storage” at the Designing Storage Architectures for Preservation Collections Workshop at the Library of Congress. An edited text is here, the slides are here.
• AUGUST 16, 2011 Future of Research Communication Workshop. David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “A Brief History of E-Journal Preservation” at the Future of Research Communication Workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. An edited text is here.
• JULY 21, 2011 National Digital Stewardship Alliance. David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “LOCKSS in the Cloud” at the NDSA meeting in Washington DC. The slides are here.
• JUNE 2, 2011 The Research Data Hot Potato – Who Preserves It? Vicky Reich spoke at the 2011 Annual SSP meeting in Boston. The slides are available here.
• MARCH 14, 2011 Screening The Future. David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled “How Few Copies?” at the Screening The Future 2011 conference at the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision. An edited text and more information are here.
• FEBRUARY 24, 2011 Personal Digital Archiving 2011. David Rosenthal took part in a PDA2011 panel on “Economics” at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. An edited version of the talk is here.

2010

• OCTOBER 12, 2010 Humboldt University. David Rosenthal gave a talk entitled, Are We Facing A Digital Dark Age? at Humboldt University in Berlin. An edited version of the talk is here.
• SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 iPRES 2010. David Rosenthal appeared on a panel entitled How Green Is Digital Preservation? at iPRES 2010. An edited version of the brief talk is here.
• SEPTEMBER 16, 2010 Workshop on Price Tags of Digital Preservation Policy Choices David Rosenthal took part in a workshop at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek on the Price Tags of Digital Preservation Policy Choices.
• JUNE 21-25, 2010 JCDL 2010. David Rosenthal gave a keynote address to JCDL 2010 in Surfer’s Paradise, Queensland. An edited version of the talk is here.
• MARCH 31, 2010 NIST Workshop. David Rosenthal spoke on “LOCKSS: Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe” at a NIST workshop on Digital Preservation Interoperability Workshop.
• MARCH 19, 2010 UC Berkeley School of Information. David Rosenthal spoke on “Stepping Twice In The Same River” at a seminar for Course 296a-1.
• FEBRUARY 12, 2010 SHAMAN Project. David Rosenthal took part in a review of the SHAMAN project by its Scientific Advisory Board at the German National Library in Frankfurt.

2009

• OCTOBER 21, 2009 Danish National Library, Copenhagen. David Rosenthal spoke on Bit Preservation: How Hard Can it Be?
• SEPTEMBER 22-23, 2009 Library of Congress workshop: Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation. David Rosenthal spoke on Preservation in the Cloud. Slides are here.
• JULY 27, 2009 Library of Congress. David Rosenthal spoke at the Library of Congress, reprising his CNI plenary. Video is available.
• JUNE 24, 2009 Library of Congress NDIIPP. Vicky Reich spoke in Washington D.C. at the NDIIPP annual meeting on Agreements for Collaboration. Slides are available.
• JUNE 26, 2009 Sun PASIG. David Rosenthal spoke at the Sun PASIG meeting in St. Julian’s, Malta.
•  APRIL 6, 2009 CNI Spring Task Force. David Rosenthal presented the opening plenary at the CNI Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis MN on How Well Are We Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents? Video is available. The slides are also available, as is a blog post providing background and links. Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal also presented a project briefing on Just In Time In Difficult Times.
• MARCH 24, 2009 Indian NDPP. Vicky Reich spoke in Pune, India at the National Digital Preservation Program meeting on Distributed Digital Preservation.
• FEBRUARY 11, 2009 ER&L. Vicky Reich gave a talk at ER&L in Los Angeles on Just in Time in Difficult Times – Lessons for Librarians.
• JANUARY 14, 2009 NISO Webinar. Vicky Reich gave a NISO Webinar on CLOCKSS, A Global Archive: Libraries and Publishers Preserving the Past for the Future.

2008

• DECEMBER 5, 2008 STM Innovations Seminar. Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal spoke at the STM Innovations Seminar in London on How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love New Media.
• NOVEMBER 6, 2008 Charleston Conference. Vicky Reich participated in a panel discussion at the Charleston Conference on Making a Difference: Lessons Learned from CLOCKSS.
• SEPTEMBER 30, 2008 iPRES2008. David Rosenthal spoke at iPRES2008 hosted by the British Library on Bit Preservation: A Solved Problem.
• MAY 29, 2008 Sun PASIG. David Rosenthal spoke at the Sun Microsystems Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group in San Francisco on CLOCKSS.
• APRIL 17, 2008 CNI. Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal spoke at the CNI meeting in Minneapolis MN on CLOCKSS Trigger Event.
• MARCH 7, 2008 National Documentation Center, Athens, Greece. David Rosenthal spoke at the National Documentation Center on LOCKSS: Distributed Web Preservation Architecture.
• MARCH 4-5, 2008 UK LOCKSS Pilot Program. David Rosenthal and Adam Rusbridge gave small workshops of the UK LOCKSS Pilot Program at the University of Birmingham and University College, London.

2007

• NOVEMBER 28, 2007 DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor Joint Workshop. Vicky Reich spoke at the workshop on Practices and Challenges in Preservation and Access for Scientific and Scholarly Digital Repositories DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor Joint Workshop, Berlin, Germany.
• NOVEMBER 16, 2007 Sun PASIG David Rosenthal & Vicky Reich spoke at the Sun Microsystems Presevation and Archiving Special Interest Group in Paris on LOCKSS: Distributed Web Preservation Architecture.
• NOVEMBER 5, 2007 DLF. Vicky Reich spoke at the Digital Library Federation Forum, Philadelphia PA.
• OCTOBER 19, 2007 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium. Vicky Reich spoke at the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium, Berkeley CA.
• OCTOBER 18, 2007 Internet Archive. Vicky Reich spoke at the Internet Archive Partners Meeting, San Francisco CA.
• SEPTEMBER 17, 2007 Library of Congress. David Rosenthal spoke at the Library of Congress Storage meeting on Engineering Issues in Preserving Large Digital Collections.
• AUGUST 31, 2007 Chinese Academy of Science. Vicky Reich spoke at the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.
• AUGUST 31, 2007 National Library of China. Vicky Reich spoke at the Conference on E_Journal Developments, National Library of China, Beijing, China.
• AUGUST 7, 2007 Google. David Rosenthal spoke at Google on The LOCKSS Digital Preservation System.
• JULY 15, 2007 AALL. Vicky Reich spoke to the American Association of Law Libraries, New Orleans LA.
• JUNE 28, 2007 NSF David Rosenthal spoke at the National Science Foundation on Engineering Issues in Preserving Large Databases.
• JUNE 24, 2007 ALA. Vicky Reich accepted the Outstanding Collaboration Award at ALA in Washington DC.
• JUNE 13, 2007 University of Goettingen. David Rosenthal spoke at the University of Goettingen, Germany.
• JUNE 12, 2007 Humboldt University. David Rosenthal spoke at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. A podcast interview recorded during this visit is available from Humboldt.
• JUNE 11, 2007 Preservation Networks and Technologies. David Rosenthal spoke on the technical background to LOCKSS and CLOCKSS during the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft workshop on Preservation Networks and Technologies at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
• JUNE 3, 2007 NASIG. Vicky Reich spoke on It Takes a Community; The CLOCKSS Initiative at a NASIG conference, Louisville KY.
• APRIL 20, 2007 DigCCure. Vicky Reich gave an invited talk on Cooperative Collection Development to DigCCure, Cooperative Collection Building and Preservation in the Web Environment, University of North Carolina.
• APRIL 18, 2007 NSF/JISC Repository Workshop. David Rosenthal gave a talk to the NSF/JISC Repository Workshop in Phoenix AZ entitled Data Assets for Science or Data Assets for the Web.
• APRIL 17, 2007 CNI. Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal talked at the CNI meeting in Phoenix AZ. Vicky gave an overview of the status of the CLOCKSS program, and David talked on Can We Afford To Preserve Large Databases?.
• MARCH 27, 2007 British Library. Vicky Reich gave an invited talk to the e-journal preservation workshop at the British Library entitled Our Future: Does It Matter?.
• MARCH 23, 2007 PresDB07. David Rosenthal gave an invited talk to the PresDB07 workshop in Edinburgh entitled Engineering Issues in the Preservation of Large Databases.
• FEBRUARY 2, 2007 UC Irvine. David Rosenthal gave an invited talk to the U.C Irvine conference Text & Image: From Book History To “The Book Is History” entitled If Books Are History, How Can the Future Have a Past?. The podcast is no longer available.
• JANUARY 18, 2007 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Partners Meeting. Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal talked on Private LOCKSS Networks.

2006

• DECEMBER 18, 2006 Podcast from CNI. Matt Pasiewicz of Educause interviewed David Rosenthal at CNI. You can listen to the podcast.
• DECEMBER 5, 2006 CNI. Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal talked at the CNI meeting in Washington DC. Vicky gave an overview of the status of the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS programs, and David talked on Threats to Digital Preservation building on the threat model described in our November 2005 D-Lib paper.
• NOVEMBER 15, 2006 SSP Workshop. Vicky Reich spoke to the SSP Workshop, Washington DC.
• NOVEMBER 13, 2006 @METRO. Vicky Reich was delighted to meet with New York Metro members, NY.
• NOVEMBER 10, 2006 Charleston Conference. Vicky Reich participated in two lively lunches and gave a presentation on building and preserving web based collections at the Charleston Conference, Charleston SC.
• OCTOBER 19, 2006 NetSpeed. Vicky Reich spoke to Netspeed 2006, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• OCTOBER 10, 2006 iPres. Vicky Reich spoke to the iPres conference at Cornell, Ithaca NY.
• OCTOBER 6, 2006 Sustaining Digital Libraries. Vicky Reich spoke to the symposium on Sustaining Digital Libraries at Emory University, Atlanta GA.
• SEPTEMBER 18, 2006 San Diego Supercomputer Center. David Rosenthal spoke to staff at the SDSC.
• SEPTEMBER 12, 2006 eIFL. Vicky Reich spoke to eIFL members on building and preservating open access library collections, Amman, Jordan.
• JULY 19, 2006 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Partners Meeting. Vicky Reich described CLOCKSS and LOCKSS work with the Library of Congress.
• JUNE 5, 2006 NYSHEI. Vicky Reich spoke to the New York State Higher Education Initiative, New York NY.
• AUGUST 5, 2006 Informatics. Vanishing Bits & Bytes: Preserving Information, 10th Annual Houston Conference on Health.
• APRIL 4, 2006 UKSG, University of Warwick, UK. Vicky Reich gave an invited presentation on the future of libraries.
• FEBRUARY 8, 2006 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Conference, The Association of American Publishers. Vicky Reich presented the CLOCKSS Initiative with Gordon Tibbitts, Blackwell Publishing.

Earlier talks not tracked.