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A Guide for Organizing, Cataloging, and Preserving
Collections of Papers, Photographs, and Other Records
Links to Sources on How to Create and Preserve Digital Collections
General sources
- Digital Imaging resources web page, a Conservation Online (CoOL) page maintained by Stanford University Libraries
- Preserving Your Digital Memories from the Library of Congress
- Digitization and Archives (pdf) from the Canadian Council of Archives
- Workbook on Digital Private Papers, from JISC. "A guide to preserving digital private papers through gaining practical experience in accessioning and ingesting digital private papers into digital repositories, and processing these in line with archival and digital preservation requirements."
Tutorials
- Digitization Fundamentals an online tutorial by the Canadian Heritage Information Network
- Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term strategies for Long-term problems, a tutorial developed by Cornell University Library.
- Capture Your Collections - Planning and Implementing Digitization Projects by the Canadian Heritage Information Network
- The Exploring Digitization segment of the Preservation 101 tutorial from the Northeast Document Conservation Center
- Moving Theory Into Practice, a Digital Imaging Tutorial from Cornell University Library: it is intended to "introduce you to the basic tenets of digital preservation."
- Concepts for Developing Digital Preservation Policies from the Canadian Heritage Information Network
Sources on web archiving
- Top 10 Tips For Preserving Web Sites (Microsoft WORD document) by UKOLN
- Web archiving from the National Library of Australia: "This page serves as an introduction to some of the major archiving initiatives that have been established by national libraries around the world to preserve their country's Web heritage."
- Selective web archiving bibliography from the Czech national library; organized by country, this page mainly lists published papers and articles.
- Guidelines for the Preservation of Digital Heritage by the Canadian Heritage Information Network
Other sources
- Guidelines for Electronic Preservation of Visual Materials from the Library of Congress
- Library of Congress Transfer Tools project.
- Sustainability of Digital Formats Planning for Library of Congress Collections
- Harvesting and Archiving of Electronic Resources in Lithuania (pdf)
- Digital cultural heritage and cooperation of memory institutions (Microsoft WORD document); gives "information on achievements in the fields of acquisition, long-term preservation and access to web information resources in the Czech Republic, including information about an international cooperation project in this field. Some thoughts will also be given to possibilities of cooperation between different memory institutions in this field."
- Digitization Standards for the CMCC: Scan and Artifact Photography by the Canadian Heritage Information Network
- Digital Obsolescence Case Study - Currency Museum of the Bank of Canada from the Canadian Heritage Information Network
- Digital Preservation - Best Practices for Museums from CHIN
- Producing Online Heritage Projects from CHIN
Lists of sources
- Digital Preservation Readiness Webliography, a preservation leaflet, published in 2008 by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. Despite its date of publication, some sources in this short list are no longer accessible.
- Web Archiving Resources by Harvard University Library