The workshop ‘Impactful Stewardship: Managing Born Digital Collections for Long-Term Access’ aims to introduce participants to the basic principles, resources, and tools for working with born digital materials to enable digital preservation.
With contemporary materials increasingly being created, transmitted and accessed in digital formats, it is essential for GLAM sector professionals to have the skills and confidence to work with these collections safely. Participants of the workshop will be introduced to core concepts and vocabulary of digital preservation, be taken through hands-on exercises with digital preservation tools and resources; Will discuss metadata standards, storage options, policies and workflows, and gain an understanding of the challenges and best practices of working with born digital collections.
This workshop is suitable for those who are new to digital preservation, or have some knowledge and would like a refresher.
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
Discuss key digital preservation principles as they relate to working with born digital collections.
Understand current practices, resources, and tools for ingest and accession of born digital materials.
Develop policies and workflows that meet their institution’s needs.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Joshua Ng is currently a Digital Preservation Analyst at Archives New Zealand, specializing in digital audiovisual preservation. His primary responsibility is to ensure that all necessary processes are in place to maintain the integrity of the Government Digital Archive. He is actively learning and experimenting with artificial intelligence and machine learning, with the goal of applying these technologies in the next phases of the mass digital preservation project for at-risk audiovisual magnetic media (Utaina) and auto-classification of public records project.
Carly Lenz is a Digital Preservation Analyst at Archives New Zealand. Carly helps manage the Government Digital Archive (GDA), Archives’ long-term digital preservation system, and contributes to policy development, strategy, and digital transfer planning. Carly liaises with internal depositors to optimise workflows and ensure proper access to authentic intellectual content held in the GDA.
Jan Hutař serves as a Digital Preservation Analyst at Archives New Zealand. He holds a PhD in Information Science, an MA in Information Studies and Librarianship, and a BA in Archival Studies. His career has involved experience in web archiving, digitisation workflow and metadata design, but his focus over the last 16 years has been on preservation metadata and the digital preservation field. As a Digital Preservation Analyst at Archives New Zealand, Jan is responsible for and heavily involved in developing digital preservation policies and processes, file format technical analysis, digital preservation system management, providing advice to government agencies regarding digital records management and born-digital record transfer to Archives New Zealand, including relevant standards, guidelines and workflows, and the preparation and processing of digital transfers into the digital archive.
Nicola Caldwell is a Digital Archivist at the Alexander Turnbull Library. In this role, she works with born-digital cultural heritage items and collaborates with colleagues to assess, acquire, arrange, describe, preserve and make accessible digital collection items. She has a Masters of Museum and Heritage Studies from Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington and has previously worked at Te Papa as Digital Asset System Manager.