Derived from the Thinking Digital Society of American Archivists (SAA) Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) course
- Macro Level Survey
- Collections
- What do we have?
- What are the Media/Storage Types?
- What are the Data types?
- What are the File types?
- Appraisal - Do these records have permanent (archival) value?
- Where is what we have located?
- How much do we have?
- What do we have that is of high priority? (Danger of obsolesce, etc.)
- What do we have?
- Infrastructure
- What Hardware do we have?
- What computers do we have, and what are their drives?
- What external drives do we have?
- Do we have Physical Write-blockers?
- Do we have file converters?
- Do we have administrative rights to our computers?
- What Software do we have?
- What Operating Systems are available to us?
- Do we have access to Checksum tools?
- Do we have access to Migration tools?
- What Storage do we have?
- What Systems are in place?
- What enterprise systems do we have in place?
- What Back-ups do we have in place?
- Remember, these are important but only part of the DP equation.
- They are meant for disaster recovery, not preservation
- What Hardware do we have?
- Skills
- What skills do we have?
- Can we get help to learn what we don't know
- Do we know what to ask for?!
- Collections