Pushing the small letters on noisy plastic keys for hours upon hours is without a doubt mind-numbing work. However, transcription … More
Category: Digital Preservation
The Digital Preservation category is used to organize posts about the planning, assessment, management, transfer, and other activities involving born-digital or digitized resources.
Preserving the Present: Born-Digital Web Content
In the Iowa State University Library Digital Collections, we mainly have collections of things that we have digitized here at the … More
Managing Treatment Documentation
During a recent digital preservation meeting, our conservator, Melissa, brought up the need to safeguard our treatment documentation now that the … More
1091 Project: 5 Days of Preservation
As our regular readers know, the 1091 Project is a collaboration between Iowa State University Library and our conservation colleagues … More
Thinking About Preservation Priorities
Our profession is obsessed with establishing priorities, and rightly so since there is always more in our collections to address … More
Library and Archives Preservation 