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This handbook explores various approaches to web preservation, including managing resources, protecting them, and keeping some permanently. It discusses options such as business as usual, policy review, and strategic approaches, and provides guidance on embedding web preservation into organizational processes. The handbook also covers the importance of collaboration, assessing policies, determining requirements, and taking strategic actions for long-term preservation. It concludes by emphasizing the availability of multiple options and the need for selectivity in preservation efforts.
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The JISC PoWR Handbook Some suggested approaches Ed Pinsent, ULCC
Summary • What do we mean by preservation? • What options do you have? • What have you got? • Whose job is it? • What policies do you have? • What are your requirements? • What can you do? • Who wants things kept? JISC PoWR workshop 12th September 2008
What does preservation mean? • Preservation is possible! • 1. Not everything • 2. Not every version of every resource • 3. Not forever • 4. Not perfect • Manage your resources • Protect your resources • Keep some of them permanently JISC PoWR workshop 12th September 2008
What options do you have? • Business as usual • Policy review • Quick wins • A finite solution • A strategic approach JISC PoWR workshop 12th September 2008
Embedding PoWR • Convince the decision-makers • Espida methodology • Include Web Preservation in policy • Preservation-friendly features in future procurements • Resources to manage capture and curation of resources JISC PoWR workshop 12th September 2008
What have you got? • Where are your web resources, what are your web resources, why have you got them, who wants them… • Ways of finding out: • 1. Survey • 2. Research • 3. Ask DNS manager • 4. Compile IAR JISC PoWR workshop 12th September 2008
Whose job is it? • Collaborate – don’t go it alone • Team of information professionals: • IT manager • Web master • Sys admin • Information manager • Asset manager • Records manager • Archivist JISC PoWR workshop 12th September 2008
Policies • Find your policies • Assess them • Interpret them JISC PoWR workshop 12th September 2008
What are your requirements? • Appraise and select • Record, publication or artefact? • Exclude things JISC PoWR workshop 12th September 2008
What can you do? • What to do now: • Domain harvest • Migrate • Use repositories or EDRMS • Strategic thinking: • ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) • RM (Records management) • Continuity • Selective approaches JISC PoWR workshop 12th September 2008
Who wants it kept? • Who wants what • Why • For how long • Internal drivers • Stakeholders’ requirements • External drivers JISC PoWR workshop 12th September 2008
Conclusion • It can be done • Solutions not exclusively technological • You have many options • Find out what you have • Collaborate and get help (internal and external) • Use your policies • Be selective JISC PoWR workshop 12th September 2008