Digital Preservation Q&A - Recent questions tagged preservation

DIY digitisation, good or bad?

Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:59:04 +0000

Our digitisation workflow is a long and complex one that takes well over a year from the time we start gathering another batch to digitise, to the time we finally make the digitised items publicly available.

Because it takes so long, we often gets requests to bypass our existing procedures by scanning or photographing works using standard desktop scanners or cameras. What do others think of this? As long as we comply with our digitisation standards and properly check the quality of the results, would it be acceptable to bypass our established digitisation procedures?

So far we have only done this for items we don't intend to preserve long term, but we are facing increasing pressure to also do it for more valuable special collections items

What preservation format for video to use when digitizing VHS tapes?

Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:57:23 +0000

What is the break down for common long-term preservation costs?

Thu, 21 Aug 2014 15:48:06 +0000

I'm wondering if any organizations have evidence on preservation cost records they are willing to share? I'm specifically looking to find out if David Rosenthal's rule of thumb "that in the past ingest has taken about one-half, preservation about one-third, and access about one-sixth of the total cost" (http://blog.dshr.org/2014/03/the-half-empty-archive.html) is one that has borne out in a variety of settings.