Collaborate with your DP service provider(s)
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.
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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.
Be sure to work with your DP service providers to understand your responsibilities and benefits.
Sources: Using approaches developed by and for the Digital Preservation Management (DPM) Workshop curriculum and resources.
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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 2024.