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
• 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