Recap on Digital Preservation
It may seem quiet, but we’ve been very busy in digital preservation over in Library & University Collections!
A quick recap – L&UC looks after a wide range of digital resources, from University Committee papers to climate change data to open access journals to artworks. Digital preservation describes the work we undertake to ensure these valuable resources can be accessed and used into the future. Some digital resources, like websites, have a very short lifespan, so digital preservation often starts (or should start!) as soon as someone creates one. That doesn’t mean we keep everything. Digital preservation aims to ensure selected, unique resources are preserved and that the other stuff gets deleted as soon as it’s no longer needed.
