Providing Access to Disk Image Content: A Preliminary Approach and Workflow By Walker Sampson and Alexandra Chassanoff In this poster, we describe a proposed workflow that can be used by collecting institutions acquiring disk images to support the provisioning of […]
Goals: 1. Develop a systematic approach to digital preservation (DP) of born-digital collections. 2. Gain experience with various DP hardware and software and figure out practical protocols —how does this all stuff work? 3. Use a real-life example, the electronic […]
Disk images can be accessed in a number of ways. This guide will include instructions for accessing disk images via FTK Imager and BitCurator. The reason for including both access methods is that both methods have strengths and weaknesses. Specifically, […]
by Kelley F. Rowan, Florida International University This presentation was given at the FLVC regional conference at Broward College on May 7, 2015 and introduced scanning, processing, record creation, dissemination, and preservation in FIU Libraries’ Digital Collections Center. The main […]
The Preservation Self-Assessment Program (PSAP) is a free online tool that helps collection managers prioritize efforts to improve conditions of collections. Through guided evaluation of materials, storage/exhibit environments, and institutional policies, the PSAP produces reports on the factors that impact […]
In this post, I’ll talk about micro-services, and the archival workflow at CUNY Television. I’ll also talk about the work I’ve done to modify and document the micro-services, and my impressions about working with code thus far. http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/media-miscro-services-and-archival-workflows-at-cuny-television/
The following is a guest post by Joey Heinen, National Digital Stewardship Resident at Harvard University Library. Joey Heinen As has been famously outlined by the Library of Congress on their website on sustainability factors for digital formats, digital material […]
As alluded to in a previous post, the Library’s Digital Collections platform recently underwent a relatively major change – adopting the “BagIt” specification, developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), for ingest and export of our digital objects. Impetus […]
Carleton College Wiki: This procedure is designed to make a consistent and scaleable workflow to prepare digital files for long term preservation, description online and distribution online. I will also describe the standards we follow, including any modifications to those […]
The following workflows depict the step-by-step processes BitCurator Consortium members follow to acquire, process, describe, and store the born-digital materials in their collections. https://www.bitcuratorconsortium.org/workflows