Introduction to Digital Preservation: Planning, Policies, and Workflows

After learning basic concepts of digital preservation, the next step is to begin documentation of goals and practices around care for digital content at your institution. Creating a digital preservation policy is the ultimate goal. Such a policy provides formal documentation and guidance for your current and future work. Other documentation, such as a digital preservation plan, can be a working draft of practices and ideas as you develop and implement a full policy. Workflows are essential to carry out day-to-day work in a consistent way, and can take some time to craft using available tools and resources.

These resources include guidance on writing policies, workflow examples, and worksheets to help you create formal policies, plans, workflows, and procedures to manage digital content within a digital preservation program.