Talks | Nathan Tallman

Versioning your Documentation: Remembering Why You Used to Do Something ‘That Way’

Guide to using git to author, manage, and version digital preservation documentation.

Nathan Tallman

Sep 14, 2023 Workshops, Invited

Implementation of Digital Preservation Appraisal and Selection Criteria

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.

Nathan Tallman, Chelsea Denault

Jun 13, 2023 Peer Reviewed

NDSA Levels and Maturity Modeling for Digital Preservation

In a practical session, attendees will be encouraged and supported to carry out a quick assessment of their own digital preservation capabilities using the NDSA levels and anonymous benchmarking will be facilitated using an online poll.

Jen Mitcham, Nathan Tallman

Apr 19, 2023 Workshops

Project Mycelium: Next Generation Distributed Digital Preservation

Heinle, G. & Tallman, N. (March 28, 2023). “Project Mycelium: Next Generation Distributed Digital Preservation,” Society of American Archivists-Archivists of Religious Collections Lunch and Learn [Webinar]. Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections 2023, Library of Congress.

Glenn Heinle, Nathan Tallman

Mar 28, 2023 Invited

Right-Sizing Fixity to the Task at Hand

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

Nathan Tallman

Oct 13, 2022 Peer Reviewed

Lessons Learned During the Implementation of a Digital Preservation Project: Experiences from Europe, USA, and Asia

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

Jessica Knight, Nathan Tallman, Mark Hobbs, Mui Huay Ho, Driek Heesakkers, Teo Redondo

Sep 14, 2022 Peer Reviewed

Seeking Sustainability: Developing a Modern Distributed Digital Preservation System.

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

Nathan Tallman, Hannah Wang

Sep 14, 2022 Peer Reviewed

Appraisal and Selection for Digital Preservation

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

Nathan Tallman

May 17, 2022 Invited

Sustaining the Stack: Modernizing Digital Preservation Infrastructure For Increased Sustainability

Cultural heritage organizations (CHO) commonly use technical approaches that are rooted in the 1990s and early 2000s. This was a time …

Nathan Tallman

Apr 28, 2022 Workshop, Invited

Modernizing Digital Preservation Infrastructure for Increased Sustainability

Updating digital preservation infrastructure for increased sustainability.

Nathan Tallman

Mar 14, 2022 Invited

Ensuring Good Migrations: Publishing a Checklist for Storage Moves

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

Sibyl Schaefer, Matt Schultz, Linda Tadic, Nathan Tallman, Paige Walker

Nov 4, 2021 Peer Reviewed

From Policy to Practice: Collaborating with Curators for Digital Preservation Selection

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

Lauren Work, Kelsey O'Connell, Nathan Tallman, Sara Dorpinhause, Elana Colón-Marrero

Nov 4, 2021 Peer Reviewed

These Times They Are A-Changin’: Updating Technology for Distributed Digital Preservation

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

Nathan Hall, Nathan Tallman, Alex Kinnaman

Nov 4, 2021 Peer Reviewed

The Right Stuff (Over Time): Collaborative Approaches to Selection for Digital Preservation

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

Lauren Work, Nathan Tallman, Mike Shallcross, Courtney Mumma

Nov 12, 2020 Peer Reviewed

Don’t Let All That Work Go to Waste: Documentation Strategies for Success

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

Nathan Tallman

Apr 14, 2020 Workshop, Invited

Prioritizing People: Accessibility and Digital Libraries

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

Nathan Tallman, Hanning Chen, Valerie Yazza

Mar 31, 2020 Invited, Workshop

Shift it in the Stack (Not those Stacks)

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

Nathan Tallman

Oct 16, 2019 Peer Reviewed

Bagit-Python Command Line Tool Webinar

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

Nathan Tallman, Sam Meister

Sep 25, 2019 Workshop

Level Up on Preservation: Updating and Mapping the next generation of the Levels of Preservation

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

Bradley Daigle, Nance McGovern, Lauren Work, Nathan Tallman

Sep 16, 2019 Peer Reviewed, Workshop

CONTENTDdm Tools: PowerShell Scripts for Batch Actions

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

Nathan Tallman

Aug 8, 2019 Peer Reviewed