Digital Preservation: Tools and Strategies

Key Points

Introduction to Digital Preservation
  • The goal of digital preservation is to provide long term accessibility to digitized and born-digital materials.

  • Digital preservation can be applied at every level.

Cultivating a Culture of Digital Preservation Inside Academic Libraries and Out
  • Faculty, students, and researchers are a key component of the users that academic libraries serve and have power to influence the University administration’s decision to support library services.

We have it, now what do we DO with it? A multiplicity of institutional, open source, and third-party platforms for data preservation at the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis
  • At the moment, a multiplicity of approaches is best.

  • Be proactive!

Publishing Data for Quality and Impact
  • Linked Open Data (LOD) makes context explicit and promotes wide collaboration across institutions.

  • Making full use of data requires new kinds of professional orientations and skills.

  • Meaningful data sharing and preservation requires intellectual investment.

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Future of Archaeological Research Data Management and Digital Preservation
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