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Back to the [[NDSA:Digital Preservation in a Box]] Overview Page
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==Broad Introductory Resources==


==Introduction==


"Digital Preservation 101" is a gentle introduction to the concepts of preserving your personal digital information. Our photo albums, letters, home movies and paper documents are a vital link to the past. Personal information we create today has the same value.  The only difference is that much of it is now digital. Chances are that you want to keep some digital photos, e-mail, and other files so that you—and your family—can look at them in the future. But preserving digital information is a new concept that most people have little experience with. These resources provide some tips to help make your personal "born digital" information last. The guidance is basic and is meant to be a place to get started. There are organizing four steps to consider when preserving your personal digital information: Identify; Decide; Organize; and Copy. We'll discuss each in detail and provide some resources to help you get started.
The "Digital Preservation 101" section provides a gentle introduction to the concepts of preserving your digital information. The guidance is basic and is meant to be a place to get started.
 
Digital preservation can be defined as the series of managed activities necessary to ensure meaningful continued access, for as long as it is required, to digital objects and materials.
 
Digital preservation is the set of processes and activities that ensures long-term, sustained storage of, access to and interpretation of digital information. Curation is an applied form of preservation that focuses on interpretation and is often (though not exclusively) used in relation to working with scientific datasets. The ultimate objective of all digital preservation activity is to keep valuable and useful digital material (increasingly online) available for future generations of scholars, researchers and other user groups.
 
==Introductory Resources==


*Slides: [File:Intro_digpres_121510.ppt]. Slides from a December 15, 2010, webinar presented by Lisa A. Gregory, Jennifer Ricker and Amy Rudersdorf of the North Carolina State Library.  
*Slides: [File:Intro_digpres_121510.ppt]. Slides from a December 15, 2010, webinar presented by Lisa A. Gregory, Jennifer Ricker and Amy Rudersdorf of the North Carolina State Library.  
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*Videos - Team Digital Preservation [http://www.youtube.com/user/wepreserve](how many to include, if any?)
*Videos - Team Digital Preservation [http://www.youtube.com/user/wepreserve](how many to include, if any?)


==Identify where you have digital materials==
'''What's missing??'''
 
*News articles/Blogs - to make a case to business cases to explain what is DP, digital archiving or find existing business cases. Also find examples of success of the benefits of digital preservation.
==Decide which digital items are most important==
*Standards - overview of standards available (OAIS, PREMIS, etc). The names of the standards should also be reflected in the glossary.  Some information about putting standards in context and how standards are applied in practice/not applied.
 
*Metadata - description of types of metadata (administrative, technical, structural, descriptive, preservation).
==Organize the materials==
*Born-digital vs. digitization - differences
 
*Naming authority - different lists.
==Make copies and store them in different places==
*Legal - IP, Copyright, PPI, any other restrictions (privacy protections, embargo, security)
*Other:
**"Cool" digital preservation repositories - a list of some examples
**Skills and competencies - skills matrix for a digital preservationist (DCC website)

Latest revision as of 15:18, 11 February 2016

Back to the NDSA:Digital Preservation in a Box Overview Page


Introduction

The "Digital Preservation 101" section provides a gentle introduction to the concepts of preserving your digital information. The guidance is basic and is meant to be a place to get started.

Digital preservation can be defined as the series of managed activities necessary to ensure meaningful continued access, for as long as it is required, to digital objects and materials.

Digital preservation is the set of processes and activities that ensures long-term, sustained storage of, access to and interpretation of digital information. Curation is an applied form of preservation that focuses on interpretation and is often (though not exclusively) used in relation to working with scientific datasets. The ultimate objective of all digital preservation activity is to keep valuable and useful digital material (increasingly online) available for future generations of scholars, researchers and other user groups.

Introductory Resources

What's missing??

  • News articles/Blogs - to make a case to business cases to explain what is DP, digital archiving or find existing business cases. Also find examples of success of the benefits of digital preservation.
  • Standards - overview of standards available (OAIS, PREMIS, etc). The names of the standards should also be reflected in the glossary. Some information about putting standards in context and how standards are applied in practice/not applied.
  • Metadata - description of types of metadata (administrative, technical, structural, descriptive, preservation).
  • Born-digital vs. digitization - differences
  • Naming authority - different lists.
  • Legal - IP, Copyright, PPI, any other restrictions (privacy protections, embargo, security)
  • Other:
    • "Cool" digital preservation repositories - a list of some examples
    • Skills and competencies - skills matrix for a digital preservationist (DCC website)
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