JISC Beginner's Guide to Digital Preservation

…creating a pragmatic guide to digital preservation for those working on JISC projects

A Structure for the Guide

Posted by Marieke Guy on September 10th, 2010

Back in May I wrote about my brain storming session and how I’d got a rough structure in place. I’ve now written the majority of the guide and have a table of contents to share with you.

Although the structure is based on a series of questions the pages are intereconnected and it is hoped that people will be able to approach the guide in different ways: through tags, through an index, as one off answers to a question, as briefing papers etc.

Anyway here is the structure as it now stands – please do let me know what you think.

  • Why is Digital Preservation Relevant to my JISC Project?
    • Access and Reuse Drivers
    • Legal Drivers
    • Economic Drivers
    • Reputation Drivers
    • Responsibility Drivers
    • Corporate Memory
    • Cultural Drivers
  • What are the Particular Digital Preservation Challenges JISC Projects Face?
    • Responsibility
    • Risk Management
    • Cost
  • What is Digital Preservation?
    • Definition of Digital Preservation
    • Definition of Digital Object
    • Definition of Digital Deterioration
    • Digital Preservation Approaches
    • Lifecycle Model
  • What Exactly do I Need to Preserve?
    • Information Audit
    • JISC Project Outputs
      • Text Based Information
      • Software
      • Numerical Information
      • Audio Visual
      • Emails
      • Event Information
      • Learning Objects and Teaching Materials
      • Web 1.0
      • Web 2.0
        • Blogs
        • Wikis
        • Twitter
      • Personal Data
    • Selection
  • How do I Make my Deliverables Easier to Preserve?
    • Formats
    • IPR and Licences
    • Metadata
  • How do I Preserve Digital Objects?
    • Tools
    • Training
    • Preservation Strategy
    • Preservation Policy
  • Can I Offload Digital Preservation?
    • Repositories
    • External Web Archiving Services
    • Institutional Records Management Processes
    • Outsourcing
  • Appendix
    • Glossary
    • Case Studies