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- 1. Practical steps towards digital preservation at institutional levels Chris Rusbridge 09/25/12 1
- 2. Contents • Who has responsibility? • When? • What? • CDocS example 09/25/12 2
- 3. Who has responsibility? • National bodies? – National & copyright libraries? – JISC? AHDS etc? • Consortia, membership organisations? – CURL, RLG? – Regional groups? • Commercial operations? – OCLC, NDAD? 09/25/12 3
- 4. Institutional responsibility? • Local scholarly material • Learning materials • Institutional records • Experimental data & notebooks • Licensed material?? • Might be out-sourced 09/25/12 4
- 5. When? • Short term – Think! Avoid stupid things!! • Medium term – Review requirements – Ensure you can keep bits – Plan 09/25/12 5
- 6. When? • Long term – Pilot – Modify – Deploy – Expand – Review 09/25/12 6
- 7. What? • Digitised stuff – not a priority – think about metadata & formats • Databases – think about meaning, codes, consistency • Web pages – think about value, significant properties etc 09/25/12 7
- 8. What? • Documents – less significant if paper files exist • Records – decisions, minutes, proposals, policies – may be documents, may be email, may be memos, often mixed! – Legal obligations exist (to keep & to destroy) – PROBLEM AREA 09/25/12 8
- 9. CDocS example • Committee Document System • Collects metadata automatically • Produces documents in XML • Documents prepared in Word (with macros) • Documents viewable on web in HTML, or in Word formats 09/25/12 9