Ok, now that I’ve covered some of the concerns, causes, and solutions related to digital preservation, I’m going to stop talking and let the real experts take over. There are many organizations doing fabulous work on the digital preservation front, so I’ll just link to some of the resources that Dartmouth College Library refers to and participates in. If you know of other great tools or resources for digital preservation, please list them in the comments!
Digital Preservation Resources
Membership-based services:
Standards:
- PREMIS – a preservation metadata standard
- METS – a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata
- OAIS – Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System
Tools:
- Bag-It – a file packaging format for storage and transfer
- DAITSS – open-source digital preservation repository software
- DRAMBORA – a Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment
- DROID – an automatic file format identification tool
- PLATO – a digital preservation planning tool
- JHOVE2 – a file format characterization tool
- PREMIS-in-METS Toolbox – a set of tools for converting between PREMIS and METS, and using the two standards together
- PRONOM – a registry of information about file formats
General Information
- DCC – Digital Curation Centre
- Digital Curation Exchange
- Digital Preservation Management Tutorial and Workshops
- DPE – Digital Preservation Europe
- NDIPP – National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress
- Planets – Preservation and Long-term Access Through Networked Services
- Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities
- Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist
And to end this post with something a little more lighthearted, here’s a great cartoon by Digital Preservation Europe that explains some of the basic concepts of digital preservation. Check out their YouTube channel for more awesome videos from this series!
Written by Helen Bailey
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