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Leveraging A Library Collection Through Collaborative Digitization Ventures, Femi Cadmus, Fred Shapiro

Femi Cadmus

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From Theory To Action: “Good Enough” Digital Preservation Solutions For Under-Resourced Cultural Heritage Institutions, Jaime Schumacher, Lynne Thomas, Drew Vandecreek, Stacey Erdman, Jeff Hancks, Aaisha Haykal, Meg Miner, Patrice-Andre Prud’Homme, Danielle Spalenka

Meg Miner

**Winner of the 2015 SAA Preservation Publication Award and the 2015 NDSA Innovation Award, Organization category***; see http://archivists.org/node/19832 and http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2015/10/announcing-the-2015-innovation-award-winners/?loclr=eadpb

Libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations collect, create, and steward a rapidly increasing volume of digital content. Both research conclusions and professionals’ real-life experiences expose the inherent fragility of this content. The cultural heritage and information science communities have developed guidelines, best practices, policies, procedures, and processes that can enable an organization to achieve high levels of digital preservation. However, these protocols are often complex, leaving many practitioners attempting to address the challenge of preserving digital materials …

From Theory To Action: A Pragmatic Approach To Digital Preservation Strategies And Tools, Meg Miner

Meg Miner

Cultural heritage practitioners who lack the advantages of specialization that come with a larger staff and budget feel overwhelmed by the many facets of digital preservation. Professionals in these situations do not know how to take the next steps from awareness to action, and so the risk to their collections remains unmitigated. What can individuals do to move beyond understanding the need for digital preservation and towards effective stewardship of digital collections? The goal of this project is to investigate scalable and practical solutions, including potential business and implementation models, that provide equitable access to digital preservation processes for smaller …

Preserving Content From Your Institutional Repository, Wendy C. Robertson, Carol Ann Borchert

Wendy C Robertson

Between institutional repositories and hosting journals, many libraries are becoming responsible for scholarly content in new ways. While portable document formats (PDFs)are the most common formats today, the unique, local, serial content could be in variety of formats. These items might be digitized text, born digital text, audio, video, or images, or multimedia.. This paper discusses formats that will remain accessible through time (PDF/A, txt, xml) so that contents are not locked into proprietary formats. It will also discuss options for backing up items and associated metadata, including simple back-ups, off-site storage of files, Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe …

Digital Powrr: Preserving Objects With Restricted Resources, Meg Miner

Meg Miner

This presentation was written for an audience that is not primarily trained in information sciences or preservation. It was modified from a day-long hands-on workshop to fit a 90 minute format but includes active learning exercises designed to evoke practical applications for theoretical concepts based on attendees' experiences.

From Theory To Action: A Pragmatic Approach To Digital Preservation Tools & Strategies, Meg Miner, Jeff Hancks, Jaime Schumacher, Danielle Spalenka

Meg Miner

This workshop was created as a result of an IMLS-funded study on identifying practical digital preservation solutions for small and mid-sized libraries: Digital POWRR Preserving Digital Objects with Restricted Resources; digitalpowrr.niu.edu). You will receive instruction in a variety of digital preservation tools and services and will create strategies for building institutional awareness around the need for a digital preservation program using pre-made, adaptable communications plans.

The "Northern Cities Shift": A Digital Preservation Story, Max Eckard

Max Eckard

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'Good Enough' Really Is Good Enough, Max Eckard

Max Eckard

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It Takes A Library: Growing A Robust Institutional Repository In Two Years, Todd A. Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis, Ellen K. Corrigan, J. Steve Brantley

Todd A. Bruns

In 2010, Booth Library began establishing an institutional repository, The Keep, an effort that involved multiple departments within the library. Potential content recruitment for the repository included large-scale digitization of archival materials and migration of previously created digital collections. Creation of the repository resulted in increased accessibility, better presentation of content that had existed on outmoded legacy web platforms, and the rescue of damaged content that had been disintegrating on other digital storage formats. By utilizing personnel across many departments and incorporating content from the Archives and Digital Collections areas, Booth Library has developed a robust institutional repository in only …