Sunday, September 7, 2014

Developing an interactive online resource for digital preservation

Developing y interactive online resource for digital preservation

09 May 2014

The National Archives is laboring with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), Jisc and the British Library to update and revamp a key online resource for thrifty digital resources over time - the Digital Preservation Handbook.

First published in 2001, the manual remains heavily used by archivists and other notice professionals. The National Archives and the DPC faculty of volition work with expert partners over the next two years to develop the unaccustomed handbook as an interactive online contrivance.

William Kilbride of the DPC said: 'I'm delighted to be moving with The National Archives on this momentous project. The original handbook remains actual popular so we have been reluctant to take it down, but we've been percipient for a while that it was meet increasingly out of date. Our continued shows that there is a real demand for concise and practical earnest persuasion on preservation, so I am sanguine that this new edition will exist immediately popular.'

The online resort will ensure the handbook can be updated easily over time. It exercise volition incorporate case studies and a witness from current practitioners to ensure it is apt to a wide audience, from beginners to those through more specialist needs. Short on rationale, long on practical advice, the device will help people from a ample range of organisations to adopt a step- dint of-step approach to addressing their digital instrumentality management needs.

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