Introduction to Digital Preservation Workshop

Introduction to Digital Preservation

Wednesday July 8 at 2:00 - 3:30 EST

Thursday July 9 at 2:00 - 3:30 EST

Instructor: Mary Grace Kosta

Mary Grace Kosta is an archival consultant with many years of experience as an archivist. Since January 2022, she has chaired the Society of American Archivists Models and Resources Committee. She currently chairs the Joint US-Canada AtoM Users Group and serves as a member of the AtoM Foundation Communications Committee, the Association of Canadian Archivists Professional Development Committee, and the NDSA Communications and Publications Working Group. She is a winner of the Society of American Archivists Sr. M. Claude Lane, OP memorial award, and the Archives Association of Ontario James J. Tallman award.

This two-part workshop series will take place on July 8th AND July 9th, and will provide an introduction to digital preservation with a focus on strategies for archives with limited resources. The topics covered will include:

• Getting digital content from depositors
  
• Preservation issues concerning digital records
  
• Preservation strategies and actions
  
• Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model
  
• National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Levels of Preservation
  
• Documentation including policy
  
• Workflow steps: inventory, select and acquire, ingest, store, access
  
• File formats
  
• Metadata
  
• Hardware and software needed
  
• Storage options
  
• Servers and networks
  
• Demonstrations of seven open-source tools
  
• Navigating institutional barriers including budget constraints, institutional resistance, technical barriers
  
• Digital preservation and the climate crisis 
  
• Hands on practice using two open-source tools

Day One

Getting digital content from depositors

Preservation issues concerning digital records

Preservation strategies and actions

Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model

National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Levels of Preservation

Documentation including policy

Workflow steps: inventory, select and acquire, ingest, store, access

File formats

Metadata

Hardware and software needed

Storage options

Servers and networks

Navigating institutional barriers including budget constraints, institutional resistance, technical barriers

Digital preservation and the climate crisis

Day Two

Demonstrations of seven open-source tools

Hands on practice using two open-source tools

*Additionally, handouts for registrants as well as a folder of digital objects will be shared prior to the first day of the workshop.

*Zoom link will be provided to registrants the day before the workshop.