The Digital Preservation Guide is a lively and informative guide in a wiki format to all matters relating to a digital preservation project.
If you have audiovisual media, it needs maintenance or you will lose it. This guide shows how to:
- conserve old formats
- digitise for transfer to new formats
- create digital file formats
- use digital restoration
- use mass storage
- provide electronic and web access
Those are just the technologies some strategic thinking is also needed:
- at the institution level: where you are, where you want to get
- at the project level: how to run an efficient preservation project
The strategic issues raise other how to issues, which this guide also covers:
- how to estimate costs for specific projects and for long-term maintenance
- how to fund preservation
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