Do you have a storage plan for your digital content?

Your storage plan builds on the work highlighted in Stewarding your digital collections to assess your storage needs.

Your Storage Plan will capture your decisions about storage options and providers; ways you intend to address the storage requirements for your different types of digital content (number of preservation copies to create and manage, anticipated growth); and priorities for ensuring that your digital content is secured in digital preservation storage.

Question for your team/organization: What is the status of your local digital collections storage? Have you determined your storage needs? 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 Workshop Tutorial: Archival (Preservation) Storage and Preservation Planning

• Digital Preservation Storage Criteria - Usage Guide and DP Storage Criteria Game 

• DPM Management Tools: DP Storage: Example using DP Storage Criteria 

• Beyond the Repository Curatorial Toolkit

  • Topic 7: Reviewing storage options

  • Worksheet 7: Conducting a digital preservation storage assessment 

_{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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