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MEETING THE DIGITAL PRESERVATION CHALLENGE Joanna Fleming Digital Curation Specialist State Library New South Wales
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MEETING THE DIGITAL PRESERVATION
CHALLENGE
Joanna Fleming
Digital Curation Specialist
State Library New South Wales
WHAT IS IT?
Digital Preservation Refers to the series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary. (DPC)
A coordinated and ongoing set of processes and activities that ensure long-term, authentic storage of digital information, facilitating access and interpretation, for the entire time span the information is required.
The process of convincing people to value said digital content in the same way that they value physical objects. To enable continued access to content over time.
To assign this value to something that is often consumed in an ephemeral way and already has an industry behind it.
Glossary - Digital Preservation Handbook, Dpconline.org,
<https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary#D>.
DIGITAL CURATION
Born Digital Focus
Adhering to preservation standards (where possible) at acquisition and even
before acquisition.
Impose rigorous analysis and metadata (descriptive & technical)
Storage and ongoing management of the files.
Creating files that can be accessed.
DCC Curation Lifecycle Model | Digital Curation Centre2008, Dcc.ac.uk,
<http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model>.
Digital Preservation
@ SLNSW
4 new systems
Rosetta
Alma
ADLIB
PRIMO
Appraisal
Acquisition
* Transfer
Storage
Description* Pre-ingest
* Ingest
* Technical Analyst
Workbench (TAW)
Preservation
Bagger (fixity) and pre-conditioning of files
IE creation and move to permanent
PanDA
Advising future and current donors.
Providing standards and training.
SOUNDS STRAIGHT FORWARD RIGHT?
CHALLENGES
Digitisation
Obsolete digital carriers
• Complexity of non-linear collections and how to preserve an interactive
experience
• Authenticity and how to ensure that future audiences know how we interacted
with the content.
• Reluctance to collect material that cannot immediately accessed – managing
expectations
Funding & Resourcing
It requires ongoing commitment
Digital objects are not preserved, they must continually be preserved.
Digital preservation is not just a technical process
The Dream Team
• IT specialists
• librarians
• archivists
• Programmers
• PR experts
• Human resources
• Finance
• Business managers
