The digital world can be elusive and short-lived, as continuous use of digital material may be dependent on the right file format, fitting displaying medium, and sufficient context information. Printed books preserved in academic libraries continue to be of importance for research even if they’re hundreds of years old. The same applies to digital material, resulting in digital preservation as a field of work for academic libraries.

This web seminar will first give a comprehensive overview of the basics of digital preservation, and, in a second part, a more in depth account of challenges regarding research data in this field.

The basics comprise of various sides of digital preservation, touching on collaboration, management and standards for archives. Among these, preservation planning, target communities and relevant characteristics of preserved objects will be discussed. ZB MED is developing digital preservation for its own collections and automation in parts. Accordingly, various accounts and examples for the indicated topics will be given.

Research data amplifies various challenges of digital preservation, like large amounts of material, format diversity, need for community contact and more. Reuse and access for researchers depend on specific precautions accordingly. In this web seminar, various approaches to these challenges are introduced. Prelimary content selection and respective preservation levels has to be considered, as well as possible automation of workflows.

Information summary:

• What: Digital Preservation - Managing Publications and Data for Future Research
• Who: Dr. Katharina Markus and Uta Parmaksiz
• Where: online at https://zoom.us/j/91812862050
• When: 8 April 2021 at 2 pm

This webinar is free and open to the public. Please share this invitation openly.

We hope to see you at the webinar!

Further information:
about the webinar
about digitale preservation
about IFLA