Chapter 3: Digital Preservation Guidelines
Digital Preservation Guidelines
Guidelines and frameworks already exist for preserving born-digital objects. Maintenance Culture builds on this work to include more complex works in smaller institutions.
Levels of Digital Preservation
Review the Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)
Tribal Digital Stewardship Cohort Program Digital Stewardship Curriculum
Watch the introductory video below, and/or explore the whole curriculum on the Sustainable Heritage Network's site. Description from their site: "The Digital Stewardship Curriculum is intended for cultural heritage professionals working in or with Indigenous communities starting digitization and other digital projects. The curriculum is designed to provide useful information and guidance to professionals to meet the needs of Indigenous institutions. Many of the topics are also replicable for small, non-Indigenous institutions."
The get it / check it / save it / share it phases that you'll see in the Maintenance Culture guidelines come from this curriculum's framework.
Optional: More Levels
Review other resources available through the NDSA's OSF repository, including:
Optional: Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories
Gabriela Redwine, Megan Barnard, Kate Donovan, Erika Farr, Michael Forstrom, Will Hansen, Jeremy Leighton John, Nancy Kuhl, Seth Shaw, and Susan Thomas, published by Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), 2013.
Embedded below, or find here on CLIR's website.