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    • Series 1: Protecting Cultural Collections
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    • Series 5: Popular Demand
  • "How-To" Clips
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      • Books and Paper
      • Photographs
      • Historic Objects, Part 1
      • Historic Objects, Part 2 >
        • Glossary of Storage Materials for Historic Artifacts
        • Painting and Textile Storage Furniture
        • Vendors for Storage Materials
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    • Environmental Monitoring and Control
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      • Identifying and Selecting Digital Content
      • Storing and Protecting Digital Content
      • Managing and Providing Access to Digital Content
    • Preservation & Conservation Resources for Historic House Museums
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​Identifying and Selecting Digital Content
This webinar will address the scope of digital content potentially available at an institution, as well as the process for selecting digital content for preservation. The scope of content will include digital content currently in the custody of a cultural heritage institution and digital content that has been or will be created in the future. The process for selecting digital content for preservation may be known by different terms in institutions, e.g., appraisal in archives, selection in libraries, or acquisition in museums, but there are common principles and outcomes that may be applied across all types of institutions.
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Digital Content Inventories 
Examples (note these are used for submission of digital content rather than for inventory purposes): 
 
California Digital Library (CDL) / UC Libraries Digital Assets Submission Inventory 
www.cdlib.org/services/dsc/contribute/docs/submission.inventory.rtf 
 
University of Kansas Data Collection Manual for Digital Assets 
http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/166/6/Appendix%20E%20-%20Data%20collection%20manual%20draft%202.pdf 


File Identification
"File Format Identification and Validation Tools," Roy Lechich, Yale University, February 2007, http://www.library.yale.edu/iac/DPC/FileIDandValidate.pdf 

“Format Identification, Validation, Characterization and Transformation in DAITSS”, Carol Chouhttp://fclaweb.fcla.edu/content/format-identification-validation-characterization-and-transformation-daitss

PRONOM - The Technical Registry: 
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/Default.aspx 

DROID, PRONOM and Preservation Planning: Anyone can do it!, by Alison Heatherington, 2009: http://www.dpconline.org/docs/events/0906roadshowYorkHeatherington.pdf 

PRONOM - A Practical Online Compendium of File Formats, by Jeffrey Darlington, RLG DigiNews, 2003: 
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file1490.html#feature2 


Sustainability of Digital File Formats 
Sustainability of Digital Formats, Planning for Library of Congress Collections: 
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/sustain/sustain.shtml 
 
Brown, Adrian. Selecting file formats for long term preservation, August, 2008: 
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/selecting-file-formats.pdf


Identifying Content: Sample Inventory
identifying_content_sampleinventory.pdf
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General Selection Issues
"Appraisal of Digital Resources in the Public Sector: A General Introduction from a Delos Report," Digital Preservation Europe 
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/briefs/Appraisal-of-Digital-ResourcesEN.pdf

Example: “A Florida Atlantic University Libraries' Digital Library Collection Development Policy”, July 2012, accessed online, May 29, 2014 
http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/digital_library/images/dl_cdpolicy2012.pdf 


Appraisal: Institutional Records 
“Appraisal Policy” The National Archives, UK: 
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/appraisal_policy.pdf

“How to Compile an Appraisal Report,” The National Archives, UK, 2006:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/appraisal_report_v2.pdf


Assessment Criteria for Digitization 
Oxford University, 1999: 
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/assessment.html




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Resources list compiled by Mary Molinaro, Webinar Series 4 Presenter
Materials adapted from Library of Congress- Office of Strategic Initiatives, Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program

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