Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative. Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications. The National Digital Stewardship Residency. Digital Preservation Outreach and Education. Fostering a national outreach and education network to encourage the preservation of digital content.

Digital Preservation Best Practices and Guidelines. What is digital preservation? Digital preservation is a series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as they are needed.

Ceremonial vase showing the likeness of a man, possibly depicting exhaling his last breath at the moment of death. Oddly, the face depicted seems to lack Maya appearance traits. A human mandible found in Holtun cenote near Chichen Itza. Possibly from a human sacrifice victim. Digital Preservation Project All Right Reserved.

The last hour of the course was spent discussing the Trusted Digital Repositories. The authors of the TDR document were tasked to created a standard certification process or framework that can be implemented across domains or types of digital repositories.

Audiovisual preservation strategies, data models and value chains. Matthew Addis and Richard Wright have prepared a report that looks at audiovisual preservation strategies. That file formats should be used. That is the cost of preserving audiovisual files. Existing business models for preservation services. The report can be accessed here.