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Knowledge Futures: Digital Preservation Planning Series, Webinar 1
February 7, 2012
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Assessing Your Preservation Readiness: a DuraSpace Webinar
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AgendaWelcome—CarissaIntroductions—Liz BishoffWhy Preserving Digital Resources is an Issue--TomThe Policy Environment—TomDigital Preservation Policies – Survey Results--LizStandards and Assessment—TomKey Steps to Plan Development--LizRisk Assessment and Planning--LizKeys to Implementation--LizTake home concepts—TomWrap up and questions--Tom
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Why Preserving Digital Resources is an Issue?
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Preserving Digital Resources: Why is it an issue?
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Technological ChangesFile formats changeMedia Storage—local vs. distributed
Organizational challengesResources—Human, Financial & CollectionsNew partnerships and expectationsLong-term access to digital resources
System ArchitectureUsed proprietary systems
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Organizational Challenges
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Technical expertiseNew partnerships
Content creators: what is their role?Collaborate on preservation programs
We need to understand your scope Who are we preserving for?What should we preserve? How will we preserve it?How do we assure it’s accessible in the long term?
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Fact or Fiction???
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Digital preservation is more challenging and complex than preservation of analog objectsWe can’t do anything because we don’t have all the answersDigital preservation is a technical problem.We’re waiting for THE perfect solutionIn the current financial environment we just can’t move forward
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The Policy environment
And those pesky definitions
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Policy environment
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‘Perhaps digital preservation is the wrong label. Maybe we should be using preserving for long term access. Maybe we can gain more traction with the public if we use different terminology.’
Dame Lynn Brindley, CEO British Library, September 29, 2008
‘Too often an organization undertakes responsibility for digital stewardship without first ensuring that the necessary policies and controls are in place or that the institution itself views digital preservation as a core mandate.’
Kenney & Buckley, Developing Digital Preservation Programs: Cornell Survey of Digital Readiness, Digi-News,2005
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Definition and Goal of Long Term Access/Digital Preservation
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Definitions:
Managed activities necessary for ensuring both the long-term maintenance of a byte stream and continued accessibility of its contents. (TDR)
Goal:Aims to ensure that future users will be able to discover, retrieve, render, manipulate, interpret and use digital information in face of constantly changing technology
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ALCTS PARS digital preservation definitions
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Short definition:Digital preservation combines policies, strategies and actions that ensure access to digital content over time.Medium definition:Digital preservation combines policies, strategies, and actions that ensure access to content that is born digital or converted to digital form regardless of the challenges of file corruption, media failure and technological change. The goal of digital preservation is the most accurate rendering possible of authenticated content over time.
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Backup vs. digital preservation
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‘Disaster recovery strategies and backup systems are not sufficient to ensure survival and access to authentic digital resources over time. A backup is short-term data recovery solution following loss or corruption and is fundamentally different to an electronic preservation archive.’
o JISC. Digital Preservation: Continued Access to authentic digital assets. (November, 2006)
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Digital Preservation Policies:
Survey results
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Preservation commitment
Does your organization include preservation of digital holdings as part of your mission/purpose?
Participant poll
2011 Survey results
Yes—56%Planning—30%No—12%
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Resource allocation
Is your organization specifically allocating resources to fulfill this mission?
Participant poll
2011 Survey results
Yes—67%No—31%Don’t know—2%
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Digital preservation policy
Has your organization developed digital preservation policies or plans?
2011 Survey results
Yes—18.3%In development—66.7%No—13.3%
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Policies/Procedures include digital holdings
Policy Yes No
Mission 31% 53.1%
Coll Dev 28% 38.8%
Emer Prep 27% 44.1%
Preserv 21.6% 40.5%
Rights 32.4% 40.5%
Procedure yes no
Mission 22.5% 49.5%
Coll Dev 30.6% 36.9%
Emer Prep 23.4% 43.9%
Preserv 20.7% 39.6%
Rights 26.1% 44.1%
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Policies/Procedures include digital holdings 2011
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Standards and Assessment
A quick overview
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Open Archival Information System (OAIS)http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf
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Conceptual framework for an archival system dedicated to preserving and maintaining access to digital information over the long term
Defines 6 functions of a digital archiveIngestArchival storageData managementAdministrationAccessPreservation planning
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Open Archival Information System—Just a refresher.
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SIP = Submission Information Package
SIP
DIP
Administration
PRODUCER
CONSUMER
queriesresult sets
MANAGEMENT
Ingest Access
DataManagement
ArchivalStorage
DescriptiveInfo.
Preservation Planning
orders
AIP
AIP = Archival Information Package
DIP = Dissemination Information Package
Adapted from OAIS Tutorial presented at the Library of Congress, 2003-06-13
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Digital Preservation Planning:
Key Steps to Plan Development
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Preservation Planning Includes…1. Rationale for digital preservation2. Statement of Organizational commitment3. Statement of Financial commitment4. Preservation of authentic resources and quality
control5. Metadata creation6. Roles and responsibilities7. Training/education8. Monitoring and Review
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Rationale, Mandates, CommunityDISCUSSION
What is your rationale for long term access?
Do you have mandates?
How will you begin addressing these issues?
Who is your designated community/producers of content?
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Implementation begins with discussion of…
Selection –What needs to be preserve? Formats? Born Digital vs. Reformatted? Licensed vs. owned? Capture –What collections do we have? How do we know what we need to preserve? How do we gain physical control over digital material? Storage and Management –What is needed? Where is it? Is it secure? How important is security?Access –Who will have access?What kind of access is providedOrganizational support—What skills and knowledge do we need?
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Risk Assessment and planning
Understanding your digital collections
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Risks to digital collections
Can be technical
Can be physical
Can be organizational
Can be socio-cultural
Can be legal
Can be financial
Can be political
Can be contractual
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Determining if you are meeting your mandate using risk assessment
Assess organizational commitmentsOrganization Financial
Inventory your digital assetsCategorize by format (TIFF, JPEG)Number of files Software/hardware/operating system to create
Storage environment for digital resourcesHardware, software, operating environmentAge, maintenance environment
Metadata available to support these resources.
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Conclusion--Key ideasMake a commitment to long term access
Include in your mission
Tie your program to mandatesLegal, moral and community
Assure sustainability of digital collectionDemonstrated through resource allocation
Identify your specific needs through risk assessmentImplement a program of monitoring and review
Designate who will monitor and review the program
Have a technology platform that supports you specific needsMay be multiple solutions for different needs
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Take Home Concepts
Use standards and best practicesSolution sounds complex, but they don’t have to be Solutions are here Don’t wait for the perfect solutionDon’t reinvent the wheel Expect and plan for changeThis is all a work in progress
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Questions???
Thank you
Liz Bishoff
Tom Clareson
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