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Storing and Protecting Digital Content over Time
Storing and Protecting Digital Content over Time
- Kristopher Stenson, Electronic Records Archivist for the Illinois State Archives
In this workshop attendees learned about issues related to long-term storage and protection of digital content. Topics included selection of storage media and file formats, allocation of resources, risk management and disaster recovery as well as establishing sustainable management policies. This workshop presented the third and fourth modules of the Library of Congress' Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program. It proved to be helpful for people from any arena (not just libraries or archives) who were interested in preserving their collections digitally.
This workshop was free-of-charge; and limited to 35 participants.
This workshop and Kristopher's April 24th webinar, "Identifying and Selecting Digital Content for Preservation," worked in conjuction with each other, but either event could be attended alone. We encourage you to view Kris' April 24th webinar "Identifying and Selecting Digital Content for Preservation."
For those of you who were unable to attend the live workshop, or for attendees who would like a review, we have posted a pdf of Kris' workshop presentation, " Storing and Protecting Digital Content Over Time:Digital Preservation, Outreach and Education, Parts 3 & 4. Also, you might like to read the pdf on "Sustainable_formats_for_Electronic_Records" that compiled by Kris.
- "Authentication," Government Printing Office, 2010
https://www.gpo.gov/authentication - NIST Special Publication 800-34 Rev. 1: Contingency Planning Guide for Information Technology Systems, May 2010
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-34-rev1/sp800-34-rev1_errata-Nov11-2010.pdf - "OIS Recommendations for PDF Files Created for Long-term Preservation and Access,"Andrea Goethals, Harvard University Library, February 2010
https://hul.harvard.edu/ois/digpres/docs/OIS_recs_for_pdf.pdf - "Planning for Digital Preservation: 20 Questions for Providers of Digital Storage Services," Bernard Reilly, Center for Research Libraries. Northeast Document Conservation Center Northeast Document Conservation Center and Center for Research Libraries, 2007.
https://www.nedcc.org/assets/media/documents/QuestionstoAskProvidersofDigitalStoragefinal.pdf
- "Preserving Email," Christopher J. Prom, 2011. Available at
https://www.dpconline.org/publications/technology-watch-reports - "Preservation Metadata," Brian Lavoie and Richard Gartner, 2005. Available at
https://www.dpconline.org/publications/technology-watch-reports
- "Sustainability of Digital Formats Planning for Library of Congress Collections," Library of Congress.
https://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/descriptions.shtml - "Understanding Metadata," National Information Standards Organization, 2004
https://www.niso.org/publications/press/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf - "The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide," Brian Lavoie, 2004. Available at
https://www.dpconline.org/publications/technology-watch-reports