DP and Natural History Collections?
Recordkeeping Innovation is a consultancy firm working with the Australian Museum on creating a digital preservation framework for that organisation. The Australian Museum, like many museums, is involved in a significant digitisation programme for its extensive collections but is also in possession of an increasing number ‘born-digital’ resources. The project for digital preservation encompasses a diverse set of digital resources encompassing a variety of formats.
An overview of the collection can be found here.
As a part of the project to devise an appropriate digital preservation framework, the Museum wishes to position its approach within best practice at comparative institutions. To that end, we would like to be able to have a conversation with staff from DPC members who may be addressing digital preservation. We are similarly approaching AIATSIS - The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and Te Papa New Zealand
We anticipate a conversation, conducted over Teams, of about an hour. We would welcome any direction as to whom to engage in any such discussion.
The types of issues that we would cover in such a conversation include:
- Overview of the approach to digital preservation that your organisation is taking and where you are currently at in addressing digital preservation.
- An orientation of the policy, strategic framework, responsibilities, etc. that make up your digital preservation approach.
- Relationships between digital preservation, collections management and asset management systems in your information architecture
- Legal issues that you have addressed specifically in relation to digitisation and digital preservation.
- Key issues that you have encountered which might assist the Australian Museum.
To meet the Australian Museum’s project planning, we would like to be able to conduct any such conversations in January 2024.
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