Digital Preservation Resources

TDL Content Inventory and Prioritization (Google s/s; June 2017) - Use this to track what your institution holds digitally and to prioritize digital preservation projects.

DPC's Digital Preservation Handbook: https://www.dpconline.org/handbook

Orbis Cascade Digital Preservation Policy Builder https://orbiscascadeulc.github.io/digprezsteps/policy.html (with examples)

CoSA's State Electronic Records Initiative (SERI) DP intro videos: https://archives.utah.gov/community/SERI/SERI-resources.html

 BitCurator Talking Points Database was created to assist information professionals who are trying to advocate for support or resources to install and implement the BitCurator Environment at their institution

Software Preservation Bibliography (SPN) https://www.zotero.org/software-preservation/library

LOC Preservation Tools Showcase

Scholar’s Portal Guide to Handling Digital Archives (Pre-Ingest into a Digital Preservation systems and storage)

DuraSpace and DuraCloud

• DuraSpace DuraCloud™ Wiki

• DuraCloud™ Sync and DuraCloud™ Retrieval Tools: Setup Instructions

Chronopolis

• UCSD home https://libraries.ucsd.edu/chronopolis/index.html 

• TRAC @Chronopolis

Metadata Resources

• Metadata Generation and Extraction Tools

  • File Information Tool Set (FITS)

  • JHOVE – JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment

  • MediaInfo

  • National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor

• University of Houston Digital Library Metadata Dictionary (Technical and Preservation Metadata)

• NC Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects (State Library of North Carolina)

• PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata

• METS schema

• Rights Statements

• Profile template for PCDM-based models · GitHub

Articles

• Pendergrass, Keith L., Walker Sampson, Tim Walsh, and Laura Alagna. 2019. “Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation.” The American Archivist 82 (1): 165–206 https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/40741399

• Goldman, Ben (2018) "It’s Not Easy Being Green(e): Digital Preservation in the Age of Climate Change" https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/concern/generic_works/bvq27zn11p

• Digital Curation Decision Points at Penn State

• Lippincott, Sarah K. Environmental Scan of Government Information and Data Preservation Efforts and Challenges. Atlanta, Georgia: Educopia Institute, 2018. https://educopia.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/PEGIEnvironmentalScan-1.pdf

• Arroyo-Ramírez, Elvia; Bolding, Kelly; Charlton, Faith; and Hughes, Allison (2018) "“Tell Us about Your Digital Archives Workstation”: A Survey and Case Study," Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 5 , Article 16.  https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol5/iss1/16/

• Prater, Scott “How to Talk to IT about Digital Preservation,” Journal of Archival Organization, Technology Matters in Archives Column: Volume 15, Issue 3. https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/78844/How%20to%20Talk%20to%20IT%20about%20Digital%20Preservation.pdf

• Tallman, Nathan; Work, Lauren (2018) “Approaching Appraisal: Framing criteria for selecting digital content for preservation,” iPRES2018 Proceedings, presentation and paper. https://osf.io/8y6dc/

Audit and Certification

• ISO Certification: For expertise in digital preservation

• Core Trust Seal: https://www.coretrustseal.org/

• OAIS Structure - wiki.dpconline.org

File Packaging Tools

• BagIT Overview from Library of Congress (Video)

• Bagit/Bagger Source Code from Library of Congress

• BagIt Source Code

• Bagger Source Code

• BagIt Instructions from World Digital Library

• BagIt from California Digital Library

• GitHub - ViDA-NYU/reprozip-examples: Examples and demos for ReproZip

• What do we put in our BagIt bag-info.txt files? | mark e. phillips journal

Blogs and Information Sharing

• Chaos —> Order

• Library of Congress - Digital Preservation

  • Expanding NDSA Levels of Preservation | The Signal: Digital Preservation

  • NDSA Home: https://ndsa.org//

• Planet Code4Lib

• DigiPres Commons Community-owned digital preservation resources

• Digital Continuity Blog

• David Rosenthal's Blog - https://blog.dshr.org/

  • DSHR's Blog: The Architecture of Emulation on the Web

  • DSHR's Blog: Talk on Emulation at CNI

• Engineering the Future of the Past | Blog about MIT Libraries' Digital Archives Work

• Europeana Labs - Home

• bloggERS! | The blog of SAA's Electronic Records Section

• 23 Things for Archivists

• Jason Kovari | Metadata Blog

• Jaime Mears | notes from a nascent archivist

• #ArchivesSoWhite Intro & Bibliography – Issues & Advocacy

• Matters in Media Art

• Third Thursday #4 | Assigning Value

• My #ACA2016 plenary: It’s the end of the archival profession as we know it, and I feel fine – ArchivesNext

• 2016_Digital_Preservation_Summit_ReflectionsReport.pdf

• CLOCKSS

• The Ethics of Working in Digital Preservation | Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge

• the-national-archives-digital-strategy-2017-19.pdf

• https://blog.suppliedtitle.org/ - Andrew Berger's deprecated blog

• Texas Archival Resources Online - About

• Texas Archival Resources Online

• Getting Beyond Digital Hyperbole & Tools for Looking Forward – Trevor Owens

• Trends in Digital Preservation Capacity and Practice: Results from the 2nd Bi-annual National Digital Stewardship Alliance Storage Survey

• Digital Preservation Tool Grid

• Strategy for Preserving Digital Archival Materials | National Archives

• The Choice For A Long Term Digital Preservation System | IISH

• Digital Preservation Q&A

• LISTSERV 16.0 - NDSA-ALL List at LISTS.CLIR.ORG

• Bias, Perception, and Archival Praxis ← dh+lib 

• Digitally Endangered Species - Digital Preservation Coalition

• University of California Born-Digital Content Common Knowledge Group · GitHub

• Demystifying IT: A Framework for Shared Understanding between Archivists and IT Professionals

• Home - Digital Preservation Handbook

• Archival Decolonist [-o-]

• Crunch Time: The revised ISO 15489 and the future of recordkeeping   – Cassie Findlay

• Long‐Term Digital Preservation - Dollar - - Wiley Online Books - Wiley Online Library

• Digital Preservation Metrics | CRL

• Audit Metrics - Digital Preservation - Research Guides at Virginia Tech

• Archives and the Old Mole | Draft work on archives, archivists and socialism

• Metaphors We Work By: Reframing Digital Objects, Significant Properties, and the Design of

• Digital Preservation Systems | TSpace Repository

• Parsimony and Elegance as Objectives for Digital Curation Processes – Trevor Owens

• Rockefeller Archive Center Documentation

• Pre-Ingest – Learn @ Scholars Portal

Advanced topics

• Making indestructible archives with IPFS | Mad File Format Science

• Script Ahoy - Community Resource for Archivists and Librarians Scripting command line

• EaaSI | The Software Preservation Network

• The Future of Email Archives

• OSF | Digital Preservation Storage Criteria

• ArcLight - Hydra - DuraSpace Wiki

• Permafrost Home - Permafrost - SPOT-DOCS

• ResourceSync Framework Specification - Table of Contents

• Hydra Service Management Interest Group - Hydra - DuraSpace Wiki

• Hyrax: a community-supported repository front-end

• DSpace/Hydra Interest Group - Hydra - DuraSpace Wiki

• AVPreserve » Blog Archive » Cloud Storage Vendor Profiles

• Overview of the OO-IO (Outer OAIS-Inner OAIS) Model for Distributed Digital Preservation (DDP) by Eld Zierau on Vimeo

• Adding Emulation Functionality to Existing Digital Preservation Infrastructure

• Developing a Framework for Measuring Reuse of Digital Objects - an IMLS-funded project by the Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Group (DLF-AIG) & About - Developing a Framework for Measuring Reuse of Digital Objects

• audiovisual preservation training ❥ ashley blewer

• Project Electron

• https://datatransferproject.dev

• Command line for digital preservation https://twobitpreservation.com/blog/2020/6/11/why-use-the-command-line-for-digital-archiving-and-preservation

• Bash Scripting for archivists https://avpres.net/Bash/