workflows

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.

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

Slides and recording from a MetaArchive webinar workshop on using BagIt Python to create preservation-friendly packages of digital …

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

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.

Panelists will discuss the implementation of digital preservation plans and strategies at two research libraries. Using open source …

Presentation describing various strategies for UC Libraries to send content to APTrust. Presented as part of a panel update on APTrust …

Presentation given at iPRES 2015 workshop, ‘Using Open-Source Tools to Fulfill Digital Preservation Requirements.’