H-3 Here’s to Your (Digital Archive’s) Good Health! Auditing and Evaluating Digital Preservation Projects

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Tuesday, July 28 - 9:00am - 10:30am
Location: 
WCC-Room 147 AB
Target Audience: 
Librarians who are involved in planning, managing or maintaining digital archiving and preservation efforts
Learning Outcomes: 
1) Participants will be able to audit the long-term viability of their digital preservation programs, using the core criteria for trusted digital repositories set forth by the digital preservation community.
2) Participants will be able to articulate collection-specific assessment parameters for the ongoing evaluation of the status and progress of their digital preservation projects.

So, you’ve digitized your treasures in special collections. You’ve harvested state task force reports that were only available online. Or maybe you’ve accumulated an institutional repository full of digital scholarship. Your library’s digital collections are valuable and unique, and preserving and ensuring future access to them is critical. Auditing and evaluation must be integrated into any digital preservation program to ensure its long-term viability. This program will focus on the practical application of best practices and core criteria in evaluating digital preservation projects. Discover how criteria set forth by the RLG-National Archives Certification of Digital Archives Project, as well as qualitative and quantitative evaluation parameters, can be feasibly implemented in the evaluation of digital preservation projects from the law library community and beyond.

Speaker(s): 
Sarah J. Rhodes, Coordinator and Speaker, Georgetown University Law Library
Bruce Ambacher, University of Maryland, College of Library and Information Sciences
Eileen Fenton, Portico
Victoria Reich, Stanford University Libraries