NDSA:Digital Preservation in a Box

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Correlated with the NDIIPP "Personal Archiving in a Box" activity.

Purpose:

"Digital Preservation in a Box" is designed as a gentle introduction to the concepts of preserving digital information. Preserving digital information is a new concept that most people have little experience with. The guidance is basic and is meant to be a place to get started. There are four organizing 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.

This box of resources can be used to provide introductory-level education those who may have little to no knowledge of digital preservation and digital curation issues, to help them with stewarding their own digital information, which might include Photographs, Audio, Video, Electronic mail, Personal documents and Web archives.

Audience:

A general audience who routinely create digital information for personal use, including middle, high school, college and introductory LIS/MIS students.

Structure:

The Box structure is modeled after an open-source software project, in that documentation on the Box will be available on a public web site where users can also download a tar, zip or other compressed file that includes all the resources necessary to use the Box. (See this Sourceforge page for an example of the potential look: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxpaint/)

News article about digital preservation may provide nice background reading, but they aren't resources that can be directly used. The Box items should have utility for a presentation. With that in mind, the Box will include items such as slides, videos, posters and handouts. Links to online tutorials or webinars are acceptable.

Box Contents:

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