Digitization COI

Protecting Future Access Now - Free ALCTS webinar from April 27, 2011 given by Amy Kirchhoff, Archive Service Product Manager – ITHAKA, Portico. Includes presentation, handouts, worksheets, and archived webinar.

Setting institutional repositories on the path to digital preservation: Final report from the JISC KeepIt Project. - Four repositories representing each content type – the exemplars – joined the KeepIt project to investigate how effectively each could support the goals of a general repository: trustworthy storage, and preservation. This final report from the project reveals the results, outcomes and implications of the work.“

Digitization is Different than Digital Preservation - Guest post by Kristin Snawder, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP, on LC’s blog, The Signal. Snawder writes about the differences between these two concepts and advocates against creating digital orphans.

Digital Preservation leaflet from NEDCC - The Northeast Document Conservation Center’s leaflet on digital preservation, written by Robert P. Spindler, University Archivist and Head at Arizona State University Libraries.

Handbook for Digital Projects: A management tool for preservation and access - Edited by Maxine K. Sitts and published in 2000 by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (PDF version online only; print version is out of print and not available for purchase)

The Signal - The Signal is a blog on digital preservation from the Library of Congress.

Northeast Document Conservation Center - A nonprofit, regional conservation center specializing in the preservation of paper-based materials. Their website contains a number of helpful resources about preservation, including NEDCC’s Preservation Leaflets.

Ohio Preservation Council - From their website: “The Ohio Preservation Council is a broad coalition of Ohio libraries, archives, historical societies, and conservation resources. Its mission is to provide a network for preservation education and to support preservation activities within the state. It is supported by members’ dues.”

Intermuseum Conservation Association – preservation page - Preservation services available from the nation’s first nonprofit regional art conservation center, in Cleveland, Ohio.

BGSU Center for Archival Collections Preservation Laboratory - The CAC could be a source for preservation/conservation advice, particular for storage and handling of candidates for digitization. Eric Honneffer is the conservator here.

CoOL page for Digital Imaging - Conservation Online’s list of resources for digital imaging; also contains some information on digital preservation.

LOCKSS – Stanford University - LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) is an initiative from Stanford University to provide digital preservation tools to institutions. This may be something to consider for the future of digital preservation in OPAL.