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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