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Digital Preservation 101, or, How to Keep Bits for

Centuries

Julie C. SwierczekDigital Asset Manager and Digital

ArchivistHarvard Art Museums

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Digital Preservation==

Digital Archives

Archivevs.

Archives

digital storage

Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems

(CCSDS)

CCSDS 650.0-M-2, Reference Model for an

Open Archival Information System (OAIS)

ISO14721:2012: Space data and information

transfer systems – Open archival information system

(OAIS) -- Reference model

CCSDS 651.0-M-1, Producer-Archive Interface Methodology Abstract Standard (PAIMAS) (2004)

CCSDS 651.1-B-1, Producer-Archive

Interface Specification (PAIS) (2014)

CCSDS 652.0-M-1, Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDR)

(2011)

ISO16363:2012

CCSDS 652.1-M-2, Requirements for Bodies

Providing Audit and Certification of Candidate

Trustworthy Digital Repositories (2014)

Acquires and appraises

Arranges and describes

Research

Libraries vs. Archives

Libraries

Archives

Records

Papers

Unique

Key principles of archives

Provenance

Diplomatics

Original order

order matters

Original order

How do you deal with authenticity

and original order

in a digital realm?

only a model

something is better than nothing

Archival storage

Where are we going to store this stuff?

LOCKSS

Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe

lockss.org

Data Management

How are we going to be sure the bits are the same

over time?

Producer and Ingest

What are we going to preserve?

original fileand

derivative version

Library of Congress National Digital

Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

(NDIIPP)

Digital Formats Sustainability

www.digitalpreservation.gov

RAW and TIFF_UNC

Open, not proprietary formats

amount of storage

documents, data sets, audio, video, email,

executables, video games, virtual worlds, GIS data,

websites, social media

How are we going to get these digital objects?

digital forensics

data recovery

FC5025 USB 5.25” floppy controller

KryoFlux

eBay is the digital archivist’s friend

Retrocomputing or vintage computing

www.nowseethis.org

The Invisible PhotographPart 2: Trapped

Authenticity

authenticity

≠single instance

chain of custody

Preservation planning

How are we going to drag these digital files into the future?

monitor file format obsolescence

What are we trying to preserve?

key features

monitor files for durability and accessibility

NO ONE THOUGHT TO CHECK THE DISCS WHILE THE CONTENT WAS STILL

RECOVERABLE

refresh the storage media

record all actions taken on the files so that the chain of

custody is transparent

PREMIS

PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies

Working Group

Entities:

Objects Intellectual entities

RightsAgentsEvents

free and open source

Administration

Money

more storage?

Access

How are we going to access these items in the future?

retrocomputing

emulation

Multi Emulator Super System (MESS)

www.mess.org

JSMESS

Console Living Room https://archive.org/details/

consolelivingroom

Historical Software Collection

https://archive.org/details/historicalsoftware

Olive Executable Archive

https://olivearchive.org/

Archivists

General Records Schedule (GRS)

permanent records

email and other electronic records

email

EAS

EASi

electronic records

How is this going to be accessible in the future?

Documentation is our love letter

to the future.

Hybrid collections

Zip disks

Bernoulli disks

8.3 character filename

regis813.RPT

records and papers from other sources

Digital preservation

≠Backup copies

WITHOUT THE SPEAKER NOTES

*facepalm*

personal stuff?

personal digital archiving

http://digitalpreservation.gov/

personalarchiving/

Never rely on free cloud storage

You cannot save everything

label and organize

What story do you want to tell?

o tell?

critical editions

http://bit.ly/1JZKBay

julie_swierczek@harvard.edu