Two Years of Implementing Digital Preservation: What We Did and What’s Next at the University of Melbourne
A lightning talk presented for the July 2018 monthly meetup of Australasia Preserves, a digital preservation community of practice. This month was hosted by the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
1.5 people can do a lot of good stuff • Good planning is important and useful • Align with other initiatives where possible Some key things we learned… 5
planning • Refining business case for Phase 2 • Infrastructure planning with Enterprise Architecture Advocacy, engagement • External: “Australasia Preserves”: establishing a national interest group/community of practice • Internal: Getting involved in existing research support communities Preliminary pre-ingest and ingest work • Responsibilities and requirements for ingest into a long-term preservation archive Data Stewardship pilot
stewardship pilot and work program development – Ongoing investment in communities of practice • Infrastructure – Digital preservation storage and platform • Policy – Reviewing and aligning digital curation processes – Appraisal and process work • Organisation – Implementing change – Transferring project outcomes to business-as-usual