Connecting local dots and handshaking with DP services

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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Manage Digital, Content Life Cycle Management High-Level Workflow.

In this context, the Hand in the diagram represents the handshake that occurs to transfer digital content from the creator or producer to the life cycle management environment to be processed, preserved and managed over time.

TDL DP Decision Tree FAQ | How defining roles and responsibilities helps demonstrate good practice

The Related Resources below provide information, guidance, and examples to help you now and moving forward with stewarding your digital collections .

Question(S) for your team/organization: How preservation-ready ready is your digital content? Are you making the best use of available DP services? What’s next for you? TDL members contact TDL for more information and assistance. 

Sources: Using approaches developed by and for the Digital Preservation Management (DPM) Workshop curriculum and resources. See the resources below for additional information, examples, and current information. 

Related Resources:

• DPM Model: Five Stages and Three-legged Stool (2003 Article) (cheatsheet) (3-legged stool)

  • Capacity Building and Roles (video)

• https://educopia.org/cost-questions-for-digital-preservation/

• DPM Workshop: Gap Analysis (cheatsheet) - how to complete a DP gap analysis

• DPM Workshop Tutorial: Administration - the decision-making part of OAIS

• TDL Decision Tree: Do you have a roadmap of your digital content to preserve?

  • DPM management Tools: Digital Content Review - Template with sections to delineate potential implications of acquiring, preserving, and making available a digital content type over time

  • DPM Tutorial topics: Selecting Assets for Preservation

• TDL Decision Tree FAQ: What does ‘well-managed collections’ mean and how do I achieve it?

• DPM DP Management Tools: DP Workflows (video) - including life cycle handshakes

• TDL Decision Tree:

  • Are you protecting your digital content?

  • Are you measuring and sharing your progress?

• Beyond the Repository Curatorial Toolkit: Moving Forward Module:

  • Topic 5: Prioritizing content for distributed digital preservation

  • Topic 6: Partnering with IT and other providers

  • Topic 7: Reviewing storage options

  • Topic 8: Developing workflows that work for you

  • Worksheet 5: Establishing selection criteria

  • Worksheet 6: Becoming a good partner with IT and other providers

  • Worksheet 7: Conducting a digital preservation storage assessment

  • Worksheet 8: Defining workflows that include DDP tools

_{This is a joint initiative between TDL Digital Preservation Services and the Digital Preservation Management (DPM) Workshop and Global Archivist LLC. Dr. Nance McGovern 2024.}

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