Digitizing for Preservation and Access: Past is Prologue
The 23rd Preservation Conference
March 26, 2009
In 2007, the National Archives Preservation Conference focused on the essential components of the digitization process and on common issues that would influence reformatting decisions and approaches. It was geared to benefiting institutions that were contemplating entering, or may have had just entered, the digitization arena.
In 2009, we presented Digitizing for Preservation and Access: Past is Prologue. It focused on institutional approaches, case studies, standards and management techniques for projects and programs that were either underway or already completed. Thus, the discussion had moved from the experimental and theoretical to examining and learning from what has already been done.
Our intent was for attendees to leave the conference with an understanding of what digitizing choices were appropriate for their institution, based in part on lessons learned and new ground broken by other institutions, large and small.
Digitizing for Preservation and Access: Past is Prologue explored:
- Digitization approaches from a few different institutions
- Federal guidelines and approaches to long-term management
- Archival and preservation preparation for digitizing records
- Public interface and providing access
- Case studies in digitization from a variety of institutions.
Presentations:
Digitization, Preservation, and the Future of the Archive
Dr. Paul Conway, Associate Professor - School of Information
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Digitization at the National Archives and Records Administration
Doris Hamburg, Director of Preservation Programs and James Hastings, Director of Special Media Archives Services Division
National Archives, College Park, MD
Business Models for Large-scale Digitisation Projects at The National Archives UK
Dr. Anna Buelow, Head of Preservation
The National Archives, Richmond, Surrey, UK
Looking Back: Observations on the Digital Initiatives from the 1980s to the Present
Carl Fleischhauer, Technical Coordinator - National Digital Library Program
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Evaluating Image Quality
Michael Stelmach, Manager of Digital Conversion Services
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The Electronic Records Archives System and Trusted Repositories
Fynnette Eaton, Consultant to the Electronic Records Archive
National Archives, College Park, MD
The Evolving Role of Conservation in Digital Partnership Projects at the National Archives
Amy Lubick, Conservator
National Archives, College Park, MD
Digitizing the Aldo Leopold Papers: Preservation / Conservation Issues
David Null, Director, University Archives and Records Management Services
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Shifting Gears: Digitizing for Access
Daniel Santamaria, Assistant University Archivist - Mudd Manuscript Library
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Reference Services in the Digital Age
Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse, Maryland State Archivist
Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
Thank God for Michigan
Mark Harvey, State Archivist
Archives of Michigan, Lansing, MI
Public Access to Fully Digitized Collections at the Archives of American Art
Karen Weiss, Information Resources Manager
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Behind the Screen: Successfully Managing Content for Delivery
Greg Colati, Digital Initiatives Coordinator - Penrose Library
University of Denver, Denver, CO