Cultural Heritage

My colleague Marieke Guy is currently working on the JISC Beginner’s Guide to Digital Preservation. Rather than set up a static web site, the project has chosen to use a blog as its online presence.

In the Case Studies section I’ve just contributed a brief case study on the Tap into Bath collection description database. This was a demonstrator database and a combination of factors (no resources to maintain accurate data and withdrawal of host server) now means the database has to be withdrawn. The case study outlines what resources were held, the issues and the decisions taken.

While new case studies are being sought, Marieke has identified a number of existing case studies on this topic, which are also worth a look.

As Marieke notes, knowing what someone else has done can be a useful starting point in your own process. And don’t forget, it can be worth thinking about these things when you start a project too.