Chapter 7. Maintaining Digital Materials over Time
Authors
Erin Baucom
Abstract
Chapter 7 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 57, no. 4), “Creating Adaptable Digital Preservation Workflows,” sums up the required resources and processes needed to maintain digital content over time with a focus on the National Digital Stewardship Alliance’s “Levels of Digital Preservation” functional areas of storage, integrity, and control, as well as how to manage organizational infrastructure and resource allocation to maintain a sustainable digital preservation program.
Author Biography
Erin Baucom
Erin Baucom is an associate professor and the digital archivist at the University of Montana. She is responsible for developing strategies, workflows, and policies for ingest, management, and preservation of born-digital materials acquired archives. She provides digital asset management instruction to the students, faculty, and staff of the university. She earned her master’s degree in library science with a concentration in archives and records management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016. She also holds a BA in history from Old Dominion University.
