A Primer on Digital Preservation Part 2: The Keys to Planning

Day and Time: July 20th, 6:30-8:30pm

Description: Preservation planning is vital because it can impact the quality and longevity of the materials you are trying to take care of. In this workshop, participants will learn how to approach digital preservation planning for audiovisual materials. We will look at strategies and resources around planning, covering key issues such as scope, scale, workflows, documentation, technology, and capacity. Participants will leave with the ability to assess their preservation practices and with a preservation plan draft to help them design their own preservation plan.

 Instructors: Sarah Newhouse and Anna Pinkney, Science History Institute

Sarah Newhouse is the digital preservation archivist at the Science History Institute. Her duties include developing workflows for the ingest and preservation of born-digital materials, the conversion of time-based media collections to a digital format, and web archiving. Sarah earned her master’s degree in library and information science, with a concentration in archival studies, from Drexel University. She also has a master’s degree in English with a concentration in medieval literature from the University of Tennessee.

Annabel Pinkney is the digital collections librarian for the Othmer Library of Chemical History at the Science History Institute. She oversees the Institute’s digital collections repository, reproductions service, and digitization. Annabel earned a master of science degree in library and information science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.