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Put Away ... And Not Forgotten
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Presentation delivered by Ricc Ferrante, Smithsonian Institution Archives' Information Technology Archivist & Electronic Records Program Director, at the Smithsonian Archives Fair on October 22, 2010 in Washington, DC. The basic principles of digital archives and preservation applicable to both personal collections and organizational ones.
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Put Away ... And Not Forgotten
- 5. 2001 – Preservation of digital records began
- 6. 2003 – websites, preservation tools and techniques
- 7. 2008 – email, preservation tools and techniques
- 8. Worked to establish standards and best practices
- 9. Digital archives includes over 30 Terabytes
- 10. Documents
- 11. Photographs and images
- 12. Video and Audio
- 13. Databases
- 14. Websites
- 15. Email
- 22. Virus scans and format verification
- 23. Backups
- 24. Long-lived file format types
- 26. Documentation
- 33. Some accessions contain only digital records
- 34. Digitization