The document discusses digital reformatting and digital preservation/curation/stewardship. It notes that digital reformatting, such as digitization, is good for access but not preservation alone. It then discusses best practices for digital capture and preservation, including using standards like METS, PREMIS, and FADGI guidelines. The document defines digital preservation as the managed activities needed to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary.

1. Digital Reformatting and Digital Preservation/Curation/Stewardship
Keri Thompson :: Web Services Department :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
www.sil.si.edu :: thompsonk@si.edu :: @DigiKeri_SIL
March 22, 2011

2. aka Digitization
Works great for
access
Keri Thompson :: Web Services Department :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
www.sil.si.edu :: thompsonk@si.edu :: @DigiKeri_SIL

3.  Imaging basics
 Resolution ppi/dpi
 Bit depth
 Color vs. grayscale vs. b&w
 File formats & compression
Keri Thompson :: Web Services Department :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
www.sil.si.edu :: thompsonk@si.edu :: @DigiKeri_SIL

4.  Imaging for Books
 Metadata, metadata, metadata
▪ Descriptive
▪ Structural
▪ Rights/Administrative
 OCR
 File formats
Keri Thompson :: Web Services Department :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
www.sil.si.edu :: thompsonk@si.edu :: @DigiKeri_SIL

5. Digital Capture Best Practices
 METS ,PREMIS, embedded
metadata
 FADGI
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/
Keri Thompson :: Web Services Department :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
www.sil.si.edu :: thompsonk@si.edu :: @DigiKeri_SIL

6. Keri Thompson :: Web Services Department :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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7.  Be involved
in the
process!
Keri Thompson :: Web Services Department :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
www.sil.si.edu :: thompsonk@si.edu :: @DigiKeri_SIL

8.  So, you’ve scanned a
book…what’s next?
Keri Thompson :: Web Services Department :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
www.sil.si.edu :: thompsonk@si.edu :: @DigiKeri_SIL

9. “The series of managed
activities
necessary to ensure
continued access
to digital materials for as long
as necessary.”
Keri Thompson :: Web Services Department :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
www.sil.si.edu :: thompsonk@si.edu :: @DigiKeri_SIL

10. Object
 Definition
 Authenticity
 Access
Process
 Planning
 Management
 OAIS model
(ISO 14721:2003)
Keri Thompson :: Web Services Department :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
www.sil.si.edu :: thompsonk@si.edu :: @DigiKeri_SIL

11. Issues are as much organizational as technological.
Keri Thompson :: Web Services Department :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
www.sil.si.edu :: thompsonk@si.edu :: @DigiKeri_SIL

12.  Technical
 Authenticity and checksums
 Systems and media
 Access methods
Keri Thompson :: Web Services Department :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
www.sil.si.edu :: thompsonk@si.edu :: @DigiKeri_SIL

13. Digital Imaging Primer from Cornell
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html
FADGI Federal Agencies Digitization Guideline Initiative
www.digitizationguidelines.gov/
NDIIP National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program (LC)
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/
Digital Preservation Primer by Michael Day, UKOLN via JISC (UK)
http://www.slideshare.net/michaelday/digital-preservation-an-introduction
APA Alliance for Permanent Access (EU)
http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/
Digital Preservation Coalition (UK) (includes Digital Preservation Handbook)
http://www.dpconline.org/
DMP Tool (for grant proposals, minimal but a place to start)
https://dmp.cdlib.org/

14. Thank You!
Keri Thompson
Smithsonian Institution Libraries www.sil.si.edu
thompsonk@si.edu :: @DigiKeri_SIL