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Preparing for Preservation. WSU-NDSA “Converge and Ingest: Building a Toolbox” Cole Hudson & Graham Hukill. Part I - Introduction. Part II - the anguish of Venn: Access & Preservation. the traditional model. preservation.
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Preparing for Preservation WSU-NDSA “Converge and Ingest: Building a Toolbox” Cole Hudson & Graham Hukill
Part II - the anguish of Venn: Access & Preservation
the traditional model preservation “Digital preservation is the active management of digital content over time to ensure ongoing access.” - digitalpreservation.gov “Digital preservation combines policies, strategies and actions that ensure access to digital content over time.” - ALA working group “...most agree that it is a set of activities aimed towards ensuring access to digital materials over time..." - What is digital preservation?" Library Technology Reports 44.2 (2008): 7+. General OneFile. Web. 31 Mar. 2014. access
but what if? ? ? “Use and access are one half of preservation...” - quote from MMDPP meeting, GVSU 2014 “...I think many of us would agree that access is the more difficult half.” - another, later quote from MMDPP meeting, GVSU 2014 “That old [INSERT OLD SOFTWARE TITLE HERE] file won’t open.” - said someone, somewhere (probably)
Part III - Triumph: Preservation through Access In which we conquered NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation one at a time.
NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation It’s a chart. They’re hard to do. Can you actually accomplish them in order? Link
Metadata Level 3 Store standard technical and descriptive metadata
File Formats Level 2 Inventory of file formats in use
Information Security Level 1 Identify who has read, write, move, and delete authorization to individual files Restrict who has those authorizations to individual files
Information Security Level 3 Maintain logs of who performed what actions on files, including deletions and preservation actions
Preparing for Preservation Finis! Thanks! Questions? Cole Hudson & Graham Hukill