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This paper explores four key barriers to collaboration: paternalistic attitudes toward community archives, the role of memberships, collection development policies, and incompatible digital preservation workflows.

This session focused on implementation of digital preservation appraisal and selection criteria at a large academic library and a regional preservation consortium, both adapted from the 2018 Tallman/Work framework.

As modern commercial developments in storage infrastructure mature and become increasingly available through popular open-source …

Fixity is often practiced as a one-size fits all approach for demonstrating the integrity of data, with preferences for using strong …

Before starting a digital preservation project (an OAIS-aligned long-term preservation of a digital repository), many things are taken …

As modern commercial developments in storage infrastructure mature and become increasingly available through popular open-source …

Digital preservation systems and practices are rooted in research and development efforts from the late 1990s and early 2000s when the cultural heritage sector started to tackle these challenges in isolation. Since then, the commercial sector has sought to solve similar challenges, using different technical strategies such as software defined storage and function-as-a-service. While commercial sector solutions are not necessarily created with long-term preservation in mind, they are well aligned with the digital preservation use case. The cultural heritage sector can benefit from adapting these modern approaches to increase sustainability and leverage technological advancements widely in use across Fortune 500 companies.

“Good Migrations: A Checklist for Migrating Your Digital Preservation Infrastructure” captures what to think through when …

It’s not possible or practical to preserve everything, but deciding what and how to preserve can be unclear. Panelists will …

The MetaArchive Cooperative is exploring new technologies to engage in our distributed digital preservation system to adapt to the …

Selection for digital preservation should be a collaborative endeavor between preservation practitioners and collection stewards. This …

This talk will look 5 and 10 years into the future, examining alternative approaches to digital preservation repositories. By moving …

This workshop will update the community on the work of the Levels of Preservation (LoP) Reboot Working Group and engage with the …

PowerShell is a command line language pre-installed on Windows computers. It can be used to streamline digital collection building in …

Libraries spend significant resources digitizing collections, but are the platforms and repositories that provide access to these …

We preserve our collections, but like the cobbler’s children without shoes, our own documentation of preservation policies, practices, …

Digital preservation is a complex, highly technical activity. Large institutions with many collections in multiple repositories (or repository-like systems) may find it challenging to corral digital collections, preservation masters and metadata into coherent archival information packages for preservation storage. This paper describes the tools and workflows for a bit-level preservation strategy for digital content at the University of Cincinnati Libraries and lessons learned on the way.

Work and Tallman researched and wrote an approach aimed toward selectors and curators to help establish guidelines and criteria to …

Digital preservation practitioners are often asked to make collection and preservation decisions about content they steward; more often …

Digital preservation practitioners are often asked to make collection and preservation decisions about content they steward; more often …