Dear List Members,
Thank you to everyone who sent responses to my question about data preservation advice. We received a good number of responses, both via the list and directly. It seems like a lot of people feel in the same boat as us when it comes to finding information about how to “do” digital preservation. As I mentioned in my original email, we have read a lot of advice (particularly that from the DPC) which, while being incredibly useful, is at a higher level than that for which we were looking.
List members kindly pointed out several useful resources which I’ve attempted to summarise below:
- Gloucestershire Archives has some extremely valuable advice. Their approach to DP is well-documented on their webpages and several documents that they’ve made available are particularly helpful. For example, Viv Cothey’s article (available at http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=40430&p=0) provides straightforward guidance and explanations of terms, as well as detailing a software package that they are developing.
- Tim Gollin’s article, ‘Parsimonious Preservation’ (available at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/parsimonious-preservation.pdf) suggests some ways we can conceptualise digital preservation in a simpler way if necessary.
- Julianna Barrera-Gomez, ‘Walk This Way: Detailed Steps for Transferring Born-Digital Content from Media You Can Read In-house’ (available at http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2013/2013-02.pdf). This article also contains links to examples of workflows in various institutions.
- Adrian Brown’s book, Practical Digital Preservation: A how-to guide for organizations of any size (2013) comes highly recommended.
- Hull History Centre have blogged a number of How To and Idiots’ Guides – available at http://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/discover/hull_history_centre/about_us/born_digital_archives/work_in_progress.aspx.
- Chris Prom’s blog on simple digital preservation without a dedicated repository system (http://e-records.chrisprom.com)
- Materials produces by the Council of State Archivists on Electronic Records (especially the Acquisition Lab Exercise Instructions by Cal Lee http://rc.statearchivists.org/Content/Electronic-Records/Education-Training/SERI-Electronic-Records-Institutes/SERI-Introductory-Institute.aspx)
- Collections Trust - Going Digital materials (very much aimed at beginners!) http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/past-posts/going-digital-part-2-digital-strategy NOTE: The video mentioned has not got a proper link - go to this to view http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/videos/
- The AIMS project (http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/aims)
- http://coptr.digipres.org/Main_Page
- http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/
- http://omeka.org/
- Jisc Digital Media Guides (available via http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/)
Thanks once again to everyone who replied to my post, and I hope members find the above summary useful. If anyone else has any contributions they would like to add, I’d be very keen to receive them.
Best wishes,
Judith
Judith Dray
Administrative Assistant - Records Management
Governance & Compliance Division
Cardiff University
McKenzie House
30-36 Newport Road
Cardiff
CF24 0DE
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