Planning

Libraries have been one of the great wonders of the world dating back to the third century before the common era in Alexandria. They have been important for civilisations and learning institutions for many reasons not the least of which has been the diffusion of knowledge and advances in scholarship. That position is unlikely to change now or in the future although the role of the library and librarians may change.

A recent publication from the New Media Consortium

Webinar #1 - Overview of digital preservation
Why is it important to preserve digital materials? What items should we be preserving and why? This session will provide a general introduction to the series and offer strategies to help you identify and select items from your collections for digitization and digital preservation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efuqagKZR3o

As a profession we are very proud of our principles. If you ever discuss technology with a group of records managers one of us is bound to say ‘records management principles are timeless, regardless of how much or how quickly technology changes’.

But what exactly are these principles?

Kari Smith's, from MIT Libraries, LYRASIS presentation focuses on models and suggestions for working professionals who cannot take time out from their current job to do an internship or residency for gaining hands-on experience in digital curation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF3ucPTu_-A&feature=share

Three online videos presented by Nancy McGovern of MIT.

http://vimeo.com/103337962

http://vimeo.com/103338199

http://vimeo.com/103338344

This recorded webinar will examine the question of whether it makes sense to produce a standardised copy of a digital video file for preservation within the context of collections of video artworks. In the world of digital video tape, this was done to provide a safety copy, often to provide a more robust uncompressed version and also to streamline future migration.

Abstract:

The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Library Edition, examines key trends, significant challenges, and emerging technologies for their potential impact on academic and research libraries worldwide. While there are many local factors affecting libraries, there are also issues that transcend regional boundaries and common questions; it was with these questions in mind that this report was created.

The EU co-funded TIMBUS project focuses on resilient business processes. It will make the execution context, within which data is processed, analysed, transformed and rendered, accessible over long periods. Furthermore, continued accessibility is often considered as a set of activities carried out in the isolation of a single domain. TIMBUS, however, considers the dependencies on third-party services, information and capabilities that will be necessary to validate digital information in a future usage context.

The NDSA levels of digital preservation are useful in providing a high-level, at-a-glance overview of tiered guidance for planning for digital preservation. One of the most common requests received by the NDSA group working on this is that we provide more in-depth information on the issues discussed in each cell.
To that end, we are excited to start a new series of posts, set up to help you and your organization think through how to go about working your way through the cells on each level.