JISC Beginner's Guide to Digital Preservation

I’m sure you’d agree that experience counts for a lot. In the digital preservation world when you need to do something a little tricky that you haven’t done before it can really help to have a case study close to hand. I am hoping that we will be able to include a number of these in the JISC Beginner’s Guide to Digital Preservation. Although we are on the hunt for new case studies there are already some available:

Digital Preservation Coalition Case Notes

The DPC have published a series of 4 case studies looking at the National Archives has approach to the UK’s Cabinet Papers, the Freeze Frame project’s use of their institutional repository, the Archival Sound Recordings 2 project’s use of METS and a complex digitisation project at the National Library of Wales

SCARP Project Case Studies

The Digital Curation Centre SCARP project (2007-2009) used a series of immersive case studies to identify disciplinary approaches to data deposit, sharing and re-use, curation and preservation

DCC Case Studies

The DCC also have several other case studies from the following projects: the Integrative Biology, JHOVE, PrestoSpace, CARMEN and Wide Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU)

JISC Digital Preservation Policies Study

A list of useful case studies covering institutional preservation policies are listed in the JISC Digital Preservation Policies Study carried out in 2008

JISC Preservation of Web Resources Case Studies

The JISC Preservation of Web Resources blog and handbook both offer case studies in the area of Web preservation

JISC Digital Media Case studies

JISC Digital Media hold case studies in their ‘Learning Lessons from Other Digitisation Projects’ area, although they are primarily about digitisation many do also cover preservation

AHDS Case Studies

The Arts and Humanties Data Service has now ceased to be but the Web site still houses case studies on digitisation and preseservation

National Organisations

There are a number of national library and large national organisation case study approaches available including the National Library of New Zealand, the Theater Instituut Nederland (TIN) and the National Library of Australia

Any one know of any other useful case studies available?