Stability in the Midst of Change: Addressing Challenges for Digital Preservation

Stability in the Midst of ChangeAddressing Challenges for Digital

Preservation

Jennifer BriceDigital Preservation Librarian Candidate

Dartmouth College LibraryNovember 25, 2013

Introduction and Background

Video Transfer SuiteBAVC

Dance Preservation and Digitization ProjectDance Heritage Coalition

QCTOOLS

What is digital preservation and why is it important?

“Digital Preservation refers to the series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary.”

Digital Preservation Coalition, Definitions and Concept

The Dartmouth College Library fosters intellectual growth and advances the mission of Dartmouth College and affiliated communities by supporting excellence and innovation in education and research, managing and delivering information, and partnering to develop and disseminate new scholarship.

Dartmouth College Library Mission

The biggest challenge for digital preservation is confronting and

managing change on multiple fronts.

Changing Technology

Changes in Necessary Resources

Digital Life Cycle ModelCASPAR project

Changes in Research and Learning

From the ACTION Toolbox, a collaborative project between the Bregman Music and Audio Research Studio and the Film and Media Studies department at Dartmouth College.ACTION seeks to provide free and open-source computational tools, and best-practice documentation, for new media-analytic methodologies based upon machine-vision and machine-hearing algorithms and software.

Administrative Changes

Changes in Discipline

Guidelines: File Format Comparison Projects Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Agency

To provide continuous and sustainable access to digital

materials in the midst of rapid, constant and complex change.

We do this by supporting a digital preservation program that embraces change as an opportunity for:

thoughtful assessment of infrastructure, collections and services

deepening collaborations within the college and with the greater community

of digital library practitioners

Addressing Change in Technology

Addressing Changes in Necessary Resources

Selection Policy for Digitization ProjectsDartmouth College Libraries

Sustaining Digital Scholarship initiative, University of Virginia Library Digital Curation Services

Data CenterInternet Archive

Addressing Changes in Research and Learning

Activists’ Guide to Archiving VideoWITNESS

Addressing Administrative Changes

Addressing Changes in Discipline

Discussing ChallengesAV Preservation CURATEcamp

Finding SolutionsAMIA/DLF HACK DAY

To provide continuous and sustainable access to digital

materials in the midst of rapid, constant and complex change.

We do this by supporting a digital preservation program that embraces change as an opportunity for:

thoughtful assessment of infrastructure, collections and services

deepening collaborations within the college and with the greater community

of digital library practitioners

Thank You!Special thanks to:

Jessica Bitley, Preservation Specialist, NEDCC

Hannah Frost, Manager, Stanford Media Preservation Lab

Ross Griff, Director of Preservation and Archives, Illinois State University

Katherine Kott, Katherine Kott Consulting

Dave Rice, Archivist, CUNY

Brooke Sansosti, Visual Resources Librarian, Reed College

Emily Shaw, Digital Preservation Librarian, University of Iowa

Lauren Sorensen, Preservation Project Manager, BAVC

Justin Vaccaro, PhD Candidate, Film and Media Studies UC Berkeley

Heather Yager, Archivist and Digital Collections Librarian, California Academy of Sciences

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