About me
Joshua Ng is a Digital Preservation Analyst, specialising in digital audiovisual preservation. He is responsible for the digital preservation system strategy at Archives New Zealand, ensuring that processes are in place to enable the long-term preservation of trusted government information. Since 2020, he has been heavily involved with Utaina, a large-scale at-risk audiovisual magnetic media digital preservation project. He was responsible for the research and digitisation design specifications, including file formats identification, collection metadata extraction, and the decision to adopt the open source lossless compression format FFV1/MKV as the preservation primary.
Joshua is also a core team member of the IASA TC-07: Guidelines for the Preservation of Born Digital Video, and an SEAPAVAA Executive Council member. In 2022, he worked with AMIA to programme their Continuing Education Open Source AV Tools Online Series. Joshua has co-facilitated "Bash for Archivists" courses to international audiences.