Building a Local Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Experiences in Selecting and Implementing Digital Preservation Systems (with Oya Y. Rieger, Michael Boock, and Lindsay McCormack)

Abstract

As cultural heritage organizations seek solutions, open source, community-based, and commercial digital preservation systems and tools have proliferated. Nevertheless, given the magnitude of digital content and the requirements of specific file formats, institutions struggle to integrate disparate tools and systems to support their institutional preservation programs. The purpose of the panel discussion is to provide insights from on-the-ground implementations of current preservation tools and to consider the opportunities and challenges in deploying and integrating these tools with local digital content management processes.