Policies - high-level goals and commitments
Procedures - workflows to achieve policies
Digital Preservation Activities (non-sequential, simultaneous, iterative operations)
- Identify - What digital content exists at Drew University?
- Goal - Assess the digital materials at Drew University
- Strategy Ask staff (especially IT)
- Deliverable: Digital Asset Register
- Name of collection/content
- Person/department responsible for maintaining the collection
- Size of collection
- Location of files (building?)
- Backup policy
- File Formats
- Retention Policy
- Ownership, rights, and data protection issues
- Associated risks
- Estimate value of content
- Goal - Assess the digital materials at Drew University
- Select - Out of all that we have, what do we preserve?
- Deliverable: Digital Preservation Selection Policy
- Process - How do we arrange, describe, and prepare digital assets to establish their authenticity, reliability, integrity, and usability?
- Deliverable: Conservation Assessment
- Deliverable: Access Tools
- Store - How do we properly store digital assets?
- Deliverable: Storage and Backup procedures
- Maintain - How do we develop long-term access through monitoring, migration, and recovery?
- Deliverable: Digital Preservation Policy