59th chat, Monday June 6th 2016: digital preservation
Moderated by @dinahhandel
Storify (pdf, html) by @dinahhandel
Discussion questions:
- Q1 How do you define digital preservation? Does your definition differ from established digital preservation concepts? How & why? #critlib
- Q2 Are digi-pres concepts inadequate for archives? How can we bridge the gap between recommended best practices & digi-pres labor? #critlib
- Q3 What sustainability challenges- environmental, financial- does digi-pres present? How can digi-pres be more sustainable? #critlib
- Q4 In what ways do you see power, oppression, or social justice intersect with digital preservation? #critlib
- Q5 What are your hopes for the field of digital preservation going forward? #critlib
Additional resources:
No need to read any or all of these- just a list of works that give an overview of the field and some of the primary concepts and concerns…
- Bailey, Jefferson. “I review six digital preservation models so you don’t have to” http://www.jeffersonbailey.com/i-review-6-digital-preservation-models-so-you-dont-have-to/
- Digital POWRR, Digital Preservation 101 http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/digital-preservation-101/
- Egger, Alexander. “Shortcomings of the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System” http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/v2n2/egger/egger.html
- Lavoie, Brian. The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide. DPC Technology Watch Series Report 04-01. Digital Preservation Coalition (UK): January 2004. http://www.dpconline.org/component/docman/doc_download/91-introduction-to-oais (pdf)
- LeFurgy, Bill. Lifecycle Models for Digital Stewardship. (Feb. 21, 2012). http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/02/life-cycle-models-for-digital–stewardship/
- Lyons, Bertram “There will be no Digital Dark Age” https://issuesandadvocacy.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/there-will-be-no-digital-dark-age/
- National Digital Stewardship Alliance Levels of Digital Preservation: An Explanation and Uses http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/documents/NDSA_Levels_Archiving_2013.pdf (pdf)
- National Agenda for Digital Stewardship: Executive Summary, 2014 http://ndsa.org/documents/2014ExecutiveSummary.pdf (pdf)
- National Digital Stewardship Alliance, Digital Preservation in a Box: Digital Preservation 101 https://wiki.diglib.org/NDSA:Digital_Preservation_in_a_Box#Digital_Preservation_101
- Project ARCC: Archivists Responding to Climate Change https://projectarcc.org/
- Shira Peltzman and Alice Prael, “Can’t wait for Perfect: Implementing Good Enough Digital Preservation” code4lib presentation (video at https://youtu.be/Dd04w–7EuY?t=1h22m2s)
- Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0m2.pdf (pdf)
- Rice, Dave. “FLAC in the archives” http://dericed.com/tag/flac/
- Rosenthal, David. http://blog.dshr.org/ In particular the following posts: http://blog.dshr.org/2013/08/more-on-storing-all-that-stuff.html, http://blog.dshr.org/2013/07/immortal-media.html, http://blog.dshr.org/2013/02/rothenberg-still-wrong.html (this post pushes back at some ideas proposed by Rothenberg following his 1998 CLIR report)
- Rothenberg, Jeff. Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation. (January 1998) http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/rothenberg/contents.html
- Schumacher, Jaime, et al. “From Theory to Action: Good Enough Digital Preservation for Under-Resourced Cultural Heritage Institutions.” Digital POWRR White Paper for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. 27 August 2014. http://commons.lib.niu.edu/handle/10843/13610
- Tansey, Eira “Institutional Silences and the Digital Dark Age” https://issuesandadvocacy.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/institutional-silences-and-the-digital-dark-age/
- Tansey, Eira. 2016. Archival adaptation to climate change. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy 11(2) Published online Mar 02, 2016. http://sspp.proquest.com/archives/vol11iss2/1509-019.tansey.html
- Owens, Trevor. “Digital Preservation’s Place in the Digital Humanities” http://www.trevorowens.org/2014/03/digital-preservations-place-in-the-future-of-the-digital-humanities/