DPC's Institutional Strategies for Digital Preservation
Part of the Digital Preservation Coalition’s ‘Digital Preservation Handbook’, this chapter outlines a number of strategies that have been used successfully by institutions in developing approaches to digital preservation. This is appropriate for both senior administrators and operational managers within institutions as well as third-party service providers.
Each section discusses the approach, its potential advantages and disadvantages, and then provides exemplars of the approach together with further reading on the topic. Strategies such as these will form a core component of corporate policy development to address digital preservation. Sound policy development combined with effective working practices and procedures are both stated by the DPC as being essential for effective digital preservation programmes. Each section is accessible in the sidebar.
[There is a reference to the whole Handbook elsewhere in the Policy Centre within the page dedicated to the work of the DPC while this part of it is relevant enough to merit a page of its own]
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Publication: Digital Preservation Coalition, York, UK, 2009.