This contents page provides an "at a glance" view of the major sections and all their component topics.

You can navigate the Handbook by clicking and expanding the "Explore the Handbook" navigation bar or by clicking links in this contents page.

The contents are listed hierarchically and indented to show major sections and sub-sections. Landing pages provide overviews and information for major sections with many sub-sections.

Maintenance and additions to the new Handbook will be ongoing. Any new sections agreed for the next DPC publications plan will be shown as "coming soon".

Status  Digital Preservation Handbook [landing page]
tick4 Complete tick4 Introduction
Coming soon tick4 How to use the Handbook
  tick4 Development and acknowledgements
  tick4 Digital preservation briefing [landing page]   (PDF of this section)
  tick4 Why digital preservation matters
  tick4 Preservation issues
  tick4 Getting started    (PDF of this section)
  tick4 Institutional strategies [landing page]   (PDF of this section)
  tick4 Institutional policies and strategies
  tick4 Collaboration
  tick4 Advocacy
  tick4 Procurement and third party services
  tick4 Audit and certification
  tick4 Legal compliance
  tick4 Risk and change management
  tick4 Staff training and development
  tick4 Standards and best practice
  tick4 Business cases, benefits, costs, and impact
  tick4 Organisational activities [landing page]   (PDF of this section)
  tick4 Creating digital materials
  tick4 Acquisition and appraisal
  tick4 Decision tree
  tick4 Retention and review
  tick4 Storage
  tick4 Legacy media
  tick4 Preservation planning
  tick4 Preservation action
  tick4 Access
  tick4 Metadata and documentation
  tick4 Technical solutions and tools [landing page]   (PDF of this section)
  tick4 Tools
  tick4 Fixity and checksums
  tick4 File formats and standards
  tick4 Information security
  tick4 Cloud services
  tick4 Digital forensics
  tick4 Persistent identifiers
  tick4 Content-specific preservation [landing page]   (PDF of this section)
  tick4 e-Journals
  tick4 Moving pictures and sound
  tick4 Web-archiving
  tick4 Glossary

 

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