Preserving Digital Archives Strategies for a Living Collection
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This document discusses strategies for preserving digital archives as a living collection. It notes that digital archives face challenges like insufficient knowledge, partial representation of collections, limited resources, and discontinuous preservation efforts. It recommends strategies like sharing knowledge through a community of experts, having a selection strategy to determine priorities, allocating resources efficiently across the organization, and maintaining continuity by preserving content from the past, present and future.
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Preserving Digital Archives Strategies for a Living Collection
- 1. P reserving D igital A rchives Strategies for a L iving C ollection Trilce Navarrete Hernandez Picture Meeting ICN July 9 th , 2009
Editor's Notes
- Today will be talking about digital archives, and this in the context of the museum collection Present the concept of a living collection as a desired goal
- Digital records: Insufficient knowledge –
- Digital records: Insufficient knowledge – what are digital records, what do they require, relatively short history (1960-70’s, 1990’s, 2000’s) Partial representation – requires selection of objects Limited resources – requires sustainable resources, no TIME to do it all Discontinuous effort – adopting digital collections into the organization
- Digital records: Insufficient knowledge – what are digital records, what do they require, relatively short history (1960-70’s, 1990’s, 2000’s) Partial representation – requires selection of objects Limited resources – requires sustainable resources Discontinuous effort – adopting digital collections into the organization
- Starting with the context: there have been a couple of recent reports in the Netherlands about the degree to which collections are represented digitally, and made available on-line. For conservation purposes, on-site is important – though for community would be great to exchange data, learn from eachother. Museums reported 81% of the collections to be accessible on-site
- Starting with the context: there have been a couple of recent reports in the Netherlands about the degree to which collections are represented digitally, and made available on-line. Digitization plan = separate from the general policy or registration policy plan Sustainability
- Acquisition and ingestion is where data about preservation and conservation would be integrated in the system ADS = archeology data service
- Active: if you leave it it dies Open: because of digital nature, it can always be edited Sharing: you can’t do it alone, no time, no resources you learn from others