Storing Knowing where your digital content is best done when stored and how it is structured and the digital preservation files are independent of any access file versionswill make decisions for packaging and Ingest workflows. You may need to 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 your digital content should can be packaged.
Organizing your digital content
There may be a difference between how your digital content is structured and grouped and how the files are kept on a server. When talking with IT, share with them that there are digital preservation requirements for packaging the digital objects that are selected for digital preservation. Within the OAIS reference model is the concept of an AIC - Archival Information Collection. This is a way to group Information Packages of digital content into Collections. See Packaging Your Digital Content: Digital Records Collections for an example.
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An Archival Information Collection (AIC), is defined by the OAIS reference model as “an Archival Information Package whose Content Information is an aggregation of other Archival Information Packages.” (OAIS, 1-9) |
Storing digital content is best done when it is structured and the digital preservation files are independent of any access file versions. Are you storing your digital content for preservation together with digital content for access? Does this This may have an impact on your workflows for digital preservation Ingest? packaging. See Packaging Your Digital Content: Digital Records Collections for an example.
Is the digital content you are preserving in organized Folders? Are the folders type ZIP or TAR?
Is there a finite amount of digital content or will there be additions over time?
Is the requisite metadata available to be joined with the digital content?
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