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  • 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?

The Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry COPTR have a section for tools to use at the Storage life cycle stage. These may be useful in developing workflows for packaging your digital content for digital preservation storage.

It is common with digitization projects to combine both the preservation files and the access files in a project folder and kept by resource or date. This might mean that preservation TIFF files are stored together with access JPEG or PDF files. Consider grouping your preservation files separately from the access files as this will make it easier to locate and package only the files you plan to ingest for digital preservation.

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