Storing digital content is best done when it is a structured method. You may need to first understand where the digital content is located and determine if there is already a structure in place. This may involve talking with others in your organization who work with the servers, external storage media, storage services (e.g. DropBox, Box, GDrive), and computers where digital content is kept. Metadata will also play a part in how the structure of the digital content should be packaged.
There is a difference between how your digital content is structured and grouped and how the files are actually kept on a server. When talking with IT, assure them that there are digital preservation requirements for
Packaging containers
- Is this digital content in Folders?
- Is this digital content in ZIP or TAR files?
- Was a standard tool used to package this digital content?
- Bagger / BagIt
- Archivematica / BagIt
- DART (Digital Archivists Resource Tool) / BagIt
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This is a joint initiative between TDL Digital Preservation Services and the Digital Preservation Management (DPM) Workshop and Global Archivist LLC. Dr. Nance McGovern and Kari Smith 2024.