State Library of Queensland threw down a song challenge to the digital preservation community, to come up with a parody of a song with a digital preservation theme, in time for World Digital Preservation Day. This is what our staff came up with. Original lyrics and music by Beyonce Knowles, Terius "The-Dream" Nash, Thaddis "Kuk" Harrell and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart. Parody lyrics by R. Merrick and S. Coates. Video produced by J. Huang.

“Damn I’m going to be a gorgeous man,” Lou Sullivan wrote 40 years ago in one of his personal diaries. Sullivan, who died in 1991 at the age of 39 due to complications from AIDS, was a pioneering transgender activist in the 1970s and 1980s. His book Information for the Female to Male Cross...

NARA digital preservation file format risk analysis and preservation plans - GitHub - usnationalarchives/digital-preservation: NARA digital preservation file format risk analysis and preservation p...

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Step-by-step policy builder.

Based on NDSA levels, really clear about how to improve your situation.

Project to define criteria, or design attributes, for storage that supports the work of digital preservation.  =============================================  The current versions are: * Preservation Storage Criteria, Version 3: https://osf.io/pwcvz/ * User Guide for the Preservation Storage Criteria Version 3: https://osf.io/uqkpb/  =============================================      Hosted on the Open Science Framework

Email migration software for moving email between email apps and for preparing email for forensic analysis, eDiscovery, and archival.

To improve the clarity and usefulness of finding aids and to promote consistency across campuses, a working group of digital archivists under the aegis of the UC Born-Digital Content Common Knowledge Group (CKG) have collaborated to develop a UC-wide descriptive standard for born-digital archival material.

Student Activism Now Documented

The Oxford Common File Layout describes a shared approach to filesystem layouts for institutional and preservation repositories, providing recommendations for how digital repository systems should structure and store files on disk or in object stores. The authors represent institutions where digital preservation practices have been established and proven over time or where significant work has been done to flesh out digital preservation practices. A community of practitioners is surfacing and is assessing successful preservation approaches designed to address a spectrum of use cases. With this context as a background, the Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) will be described as the culmination of over two decades of experience with existing standards and practices.

More than 100 years’ worth of Lake City's municipal records were hijacked by unidentified hackers who encrypted the city’s computer systems and demanded more than $460,000 in ransom.

Not 100% perfect (databases should be SQL dumped), but pretty good.

A leading librarian who championed high tech, she dueled with preservationists like Nicholson Baker over how best to protect the written word for posterity.