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1 August 2012 - 12:00 From the outset, digital preservation and conservation seem to be two very different professions. This paper explores the idea that both traditional and digital conservators not only have many commonalties but also an invaluable knowledge bank of their own areas of expertise, which should be shared between these seemingly distinct communities. Preservation Services and the Digital Preservation team from the National Library of Australia (NLA) discuss the commonalities betw...

Photo: Depositphotos.com The Dutch government must support its national cyber security industry or risk the economy becoming too dependent on American and Chinese tech companies, cyber security council CSR has said. The government advisory body said the government must act quickly or the Netherlands will lose its grip on internet safety and home-grown technological knowledge will disappear abroad. The Netherlands is now largely dependent on companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle for i...

NME: Publishers Are Suffering From Apple’s Commercial Practices European publishers have welcomed the European Commission’s decision to send Apple a statement of objections, following a complaint introduced by Spotify in 2019, pointing out that news publishers are also suffering from Apple’s commercial practices. In a statement, Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager said the Commissions preliminary conclusion was that Apple abused its dominant position for the distribution of mus...

Allianz Global Investors (AGI) – Armin Sandhövel, chief investment officer infrastructure equity at AGI, will soon leave his post, sources told IPE. Sandhövel is currently on gardening leave, it is understood, and his future plans have not been disclosed. A spokesperson for AGI declined to comment. Sandhövel joined the firm as global CIO for infrastructure equity in 2012. In his role, he was responsible for managing €1.5bn in assets. Prior to joining AGI, Sandhövel was the founder and ...

Final Agenda and Speaker Line-up Confirmed for NewsBrands Engage Conference April 30, 2021 Pictured: Colm O’Reilly, chairman of NewsBrands Ireland and panellist at the NewsBrands Engage conference. NewsBrands Ireland has finalised details of its NewsBrands Engage conference and its Media Planning Competition, both of which take place next Wednesday, May 5. The event, which will be co-hosted by Roisin Ingle and Adrian Weckler, kicks off at 9.30am and conclude at 1pm. First on the agenda will b...

Photo: Depositphotos.com A long-awaited report commissioned by Dutch gymnastics federation KNGU into the scale and nature of abuse in gymnastics has shown that former top athletes in particular have been the victim of ‘transgressive behaviour’, meriting apologies, after care and compensation. Two thirds of the former athletes participating in the survey, carried out by professor of sports law Marjan Olfers and criminologist Anton van Wijk following last year’s allegations of abuse, said t...

Landlords need to step up their game when attracting, managing, and retaining tenants Share The South African rental market is under pressure as many good tenants step up to property ownership and a large proportion of those left behind are struggling with their finances. This means landlords are having to step up their game when attracting, managing, and retaining tenants who are able to honour their leases and look after their properties. Tenant payment performance is improbving in the reside...

Plans for European Hydrogen Backbone expanded Ambitious plans to create a dedicated hydrogen transport infrastructure in Europe have been expanded. Originally unveiled in July 2020 by 11 European gas infrastructure companies from nine EU members states, the European Hydrogen Backbone (EHB) report has now expanded to nearly 40,000km covering 11 new countries, with 12 European gas TSOs joining the EHB initiative. With recent technological advancements in the field of hydrogen, the pipeline now r...

The European Hydrogen Backbone (EHB) initiative has proposed a hydrogen network of 39,700 kilometres by 2040 to connect 21 European countries, with further growth expected after 2040.

“This is why the alerts extend beyond the time of the first wave,” he said. Supplied/Stuff University of Auckland associate professor Kasper van Wijk says people should not relax just because first wave times have passed. Make-up of shoreline affects wave size Lane said the make-up of a shoreline can multiply or reduce the size of the waves. “Often the places where there are larger tsunami responses are places where you get resonance in bays or harbours,” she said. “Every bay and...