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Preserving Digital Archives
Strategies for aLiving Collection
Trilce Navarrete Hernandez
Picture MeetingICN July 9th, 2009
Today:
1. National Facts / International Facts
2. Digital archives
3. Strategies for a Living Collection
Picture Meeting ICN 9th July 2009
Picture Meeting ICN 9th July 2009
Preservation issues:
Objects:
Plastics hold up well for the decade or so during which a consumer uses most products. But that is a problem for museums that collect plastic art (slate.com 1/07/2009) Duane Hanson's 1974 sculpture Drug
Addict, observed by a museum guest
Picture Meeting ICN 9th July 2009
Preservation issues:
Digital archives:
Insufficient knowledgePartial representation of collectionLimited resourcesDiscontinuous effort
Picture Meeting ICN 9th July 2009
Preservation issues:
WHY?
Secure access to digital archives to guarantee use of (digital) collections
Keeping digital collections alive to ensure preservation
Picture Meeting ICN 9th July 2009
Background:
Registration is ongoing, 2007 NLD estimates:
Registered there is a record of the object = 83% Automated the recorded object is in digital format = 57% Digitized there is a digital image of the object = 37% Documented the object has context information = 34-54%Online information about the object can be found online
= 31%
Picture Meeting ICN 9th July 2009
Background:
Preservation is growing, 2007 NLD estimates:Information plan = 6%Digitization plan = 8%Sustainability strategy = 21% Digital activities budget line = 29%
“Investment is about the future. Preservation of valuable assets is a form of investment” BRTF
Picture Meeting ICN 9th July 2009
Background:
Estimated long term costs, 2008 UK estimates:Acquisition and ingestion = c. 42%Storage and preservation = c. 23%Access = c. 35%
Picture Meeting ICN 9th July 2009
Adopting media technology:
Picture Meeting ICN 9th July 2009
Adopting media technology:
Adapting to media technology
requires active preservationremains open for changethrives on sharing community
Picture Meeting ICN 9th July 2009
Strategies for a Living Collection:
Knowledge: shared community of experts
Selection: strategy building blocks
Resources: ongoing efficient allocation in entire organization
Continuity: content from past, present and into the future
Picture Meeting ICN 9th July 2009
Resources:
