The Persistent Digital Archives and Library System, or PeDALS, was a research project, from January 2008 to March 2012, which had two technical goals. First, was to develop a curatorial rationale to support an automated, integrated workflow to process collections of digital publications and...
As the main site for the Personal Digital Archiving projects at the Library of Congress there are links to basic preservation guidelines, videos, and resources. These may assist you with understanding preservation concepts or may help explain preservation to your designated communities, users,...
Main webpage for NARA providing links to records management portals, information on scheduling and transfers, oversight and reporting, education and training, policy and guidance, and email management for the federal government. URL for Resource : https://www.archives.gov Document...
Links to documents created by the Ohio Electronic Records Committee including: Statement on Maintaining Digitally Imaged Records Permanently, E-Mail Management Decision Tree, Managing Electronic Records: Checksums, Guidelines for Managing Email, Social Media Tip Sheet, Digital Imaging Guidelines...
Website that discusses Risk Management, Preparedness, and Response and Recovery. URL for Resource : http://www.loc.gov Document Creating / Publishing Body : Library of Congress Topics : Emergency Services/Disaster Recovery, Risk Management Date Resource Added/Modified : June 17,...
Information about XML. What is it, what is it used for, examples. Information about the schema, security, transformation, query, components, processing and publishing as also provided on the W3C page. URL for Resource : https://www.w3.org/standards/xml/core Document Creating / Publishing...
Report about the E-Z Photo Scan project and other collaborative digitization projects that provides guidance and suggestions when working collaboratively. URL for Resource : https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2013/09/engaging-communities-to-preserve-the-history-harvest-as-a-collaboration-model...
Information and case study about creating a record inventory with sample documents. URL for Resource : https://www.mnhs.org Document Creating / Publishing Body : Minnesota State Archives Date of Creation : 2012 Institutional Implementation : Minnesota State Archives Topics :...
Blog post about various methods for developing "file format actions plans" which are policy/guidelines for how institutions preserve specific file formats. URL for Resource : https://blogs.loc.gov Document Creating / Publishing Body : Lee Nilsson (Library of Congress, National Digital...
Information on why to prepare for a disaster, how to reduce risk, and what do to with various media types in response to a disaster. URL for Resource : http://www.archives.nysed.gov Document Creating / Publishing Body : New York State Archives Date of Creation : 2012 Related...