It takes a village to manage digital collections over time. When you work with a service provider like TDL, you will need to align your local workflows, practices, and policies to your provider’s services. You will be collaborating with internal and external service providers to achieve your digital preservation goals.
This is an excerpt from the DPM Workshop Management Tools: Digital Content Workflows. The diagram shows the steps of managing digital content from Decide to Acquire Digital through to Make Digital Content Available, The diagram also highlights the roles that are involved with digital content management, including Content Curators (CC) with responsibility for making decisions about digital content (what to acquire, how to process and package it, when to make it available); Digital Preservation (DP) with over-time responsibility to ensure the infrastructure is in place to manage, preserve, and protect the digital content across generations of technology; Information Technology (IT) who manages the software, hardware, and other required technological resources; and Provider (P), especially external, who provide services for life cycle management of digital content.
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https://texasdigitallibrary.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DPS/pages/3449323530/TDL+DP+Decision+Tree+FAQ#How-defining-roles-and-responsibilities-helps-demonstrate-good-practice?TDL is a good example of a provider of digital preservation services that helps members to make use of the Ingest tools, DP storage options, and monitoring services TDL supports. Members decide what content to acquire and arrange for its transfer then work with TDL to do the handshake between the member’s local environment and TDL’s service environment.
The Related Resources below provide information, guidance, and examples to help you now and moving forward with stewarding your digital collections .
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