SPEC Kit 325: Digital Preservation (October 2011)
This SPEC Kit explores the strategies that ARL member institutions use to protect evolving research collections and the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders. The survey asked ARL libraries about their digital content, their strategies for preserving that content, and the staff, time, and funding they currently devote to digital preservation. It also asked each responding library to compare its digital preservation activities of three years ago to current activities and project three years into the future. In addition, to better understand the roles of research libraries in the emergent field of digital curation, the survey sought to identify issues that are and are not being addressed through current practices and policies.
This survey revealed, as the digital preservation field is maturing, that most ARL libraries are rising to the challenge of establishing policies, workflows, and infrastructures to systematically preserve their rapidly expanding bodies of digital content. The survey also revealed that most ARL libraries are actively engaging in in-house digital preservation rather than outsourcing it to external parties, thus maintaining their control and ownership over the digital content that they curate.
This SPEC Kit includes documentation from respondents that describes policies, procedures, and guidelines for digital preservation, cooperative agreements, job descriptions, and data management services.
McMillan, Gail, Matt Schultz, and Katherine Skinner. Digital Preservation. SPEC Kit 325. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, October 2011.
Table of Contents
SPEC Kit 325: Digital Preservation (October 2011)
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Digital Preservation frontmatter
33
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Survey Results
77
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Representative Documents
7777
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Policies, Procedures, Guidelines
7979
- University of Alberta 8080
- Columbia University 8282
- University of Florida 8585
- Georgia Tech 9191
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 9797
- Johns Hopkins University 107107
- Library of Congress 109109
- University of Michigan 110110
- University of North Carolina 112112
- University of Utah 113113
- University of Washington 120120
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Cooperative Agreements
121121
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Job Descriptions
131131
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Data Management
141141
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Policies, Procedures, Guidelines
7979
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Selected Resources
147147

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SPEC Kit 325: Digital Preservation (October 2011)