Desks Drawers & Trusted Repositories: Lance Stuchell, MSI Digital Preservation Librarian,...

Desks Drawers & Trusted Repositories:

Lance Stuchell, MSIDigital Preservation Librarian, University of MichiganWayne State University, 10/23/2012

Digital Preservation in an Academic Library

Overview

• Digital preservation continuum – Application of resources to digital

content

• Preservation at Michigan Library – Preservation activities along continuum – Removable media example

• Solution development in community– Gaps between research and practice – Signs of change and next steps

Digital Preservation Continuum

Resources, time, technical expertise, etc.

Preservation at MLibrary

Institutional Repository

A/V digitization

Researchdata

Removablemedia

Webpreservation

Licensedcontent

HathiTrustsupport

Preservation at MLibrary

Institutional Repository

A/V digitization

Researchdata

Removablemedia

Webpreservation

Licensedcontent

HathiTrustsupport

Digital Forensics/Removable Media

Digital Forensics/Removable Media

• Get intellectual control over inventory of media

• Create disk images• Bitstream preservation

Digital Forensics/Removable Media

• Get intellectual control over inventory of media

• Create disk images• Bitstream preservation

Harder

Digital Preservation Continuum

Resources, time, technical expertise, etc.

Digital Preservation Continuum

Diskimaging

Digital forensictools (AIMS project)

Emulation andnormalization

Preservation in the Community

Government SmallerColleges

ResearchUniversities

Museums

HistoricalSocieties

Digital Preservation Continuum

Resources, time, technical expertise, etc.

Guidance and solution development

Signs of Change

• OCLC physical media report• Continued ownership by SAA, ALA,

etc. • Implementable tools and workflows– Duke Data Accessioner (Seth Shaw)– Practical E-records (Chris Prom)

• Recognition of gap• NDSA Levels of Preservation

NDSA Levels of Preservation

Next Steps

• Continue work on Levels of Preservation

• Merging of research and practice– Better communication of needs/solutions

• Focus on implementable tools and guidance

• Tools Workflows– Archivematica – Hosted and vended solutions

• Leadership!

Thank You!

lance@lancestuchell.com@lancestuch