This toolkit has provided a series of basic practical guidance to get you started on your digital preservation journey. If you would like to learn more about a particular topic or build on the processes you have already put in place, the resource list below is a good place to start. It has been split into the toolkit topic sessions for ease of searching.
General Guides - The resources here give an overview of a range of digital preservation tasks
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Novice to Know How – Digital Preservation Coalition |
Novice to Know How is an online digital preservation training basics course. The course covers basic digital preservation policy and procedure and gives guided demos of some software options. |
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Tech Watch Reports and Guidance Notes – Digital Preservation Coalition |
These are a series of reports and guidance notes on a wide range of digital preservation topics. They are in depth and can be quite technical in language and topics covered. |
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Digital Preservation Handbook – Digital Preservation Coalition |
The Digital Preservation handbook is a how- to guide for all things digital preservation. |
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COPTR helps practitioners find tools needed for long term digital preservation tasks. It describes 611 tools and 36 workflows. |
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Specific area of COPTR where practitioners upload their workflows for others to see and learn from or implement in their own groups. |
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Digital Repository of Ireland Guide to archiving digital records for volunteer and community groups |
Guide for volunteer, grassroots and community groups, created to assist them with cataloguing and preserving their digital records. |
Choose/ Create Your Content
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Guidance on how to select the content that will form your digital collections. |
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The National Archive UK Suggested Collecting Policy Elements |
Guidance on possible elements that you may want to include in your collecting policy. |
Organise Your Content
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Guidance and examples relating to how to name your files. |
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Simple explanation of how archival hierarchies are used. |
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Information and examples relating to archival hierarchies and levels of description. |
Who Does What
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Toolkit to help you create a digital preservation policy. |
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Toolkit with practical advice and guidance on how to make sure all group members are well trained to do the role they are doing. |
Understand Your Content
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Digital Preservation Coalition Digital Asset Register Training |
In dept training focused on why you should and how to create a digital asset register. |
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The complete standard and information about Dublin Core, the file information standard used in level 2 of this topic. |
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A tutorial showing you how to use DROID. DROID is a file identification tool that provides you with information about your files that you can transfer into your digital asset register. It is easy to install and use. |
Keep Your Content
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Guidance on storage and how to transfer your content to a new storage medium safely. |
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Scottish Council on Archives Getting Started with Fixity Pro |
A tutorial showing you how to use Fixity Pro. Fixity Pro is explained in level 3 of this topic. |
Control Your Content
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The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Good Migrations Checklist |
A list of things to do and issues to consider when moving digital materials and metadata to new digital preservation systems. |
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Toolkit providing practical advice on guidance on the steps to take when looking at new software systems. |
Make Copies
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Tutorial showing you how to use Teracopy. Teracopy is a tool which allows you to safely make and transfer copies of your digital collections. |
Plan to Share
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A range of easy-to-understand resources about Copyright. A good place for beginners to start. |
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Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Copyright Training |
A range of resources focused on Copyright |
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UK Information Commissioners Office GDPR Guidance and Resources |
Up to date advice and resources to help you navigate GDPR regulations and sensitive data sharing. |
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Advice on licensing your created content so it can be shared and with no restrictions. |
Preserve Your Website
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User Guide for ArchiveWeb browser extension from level 3 of this topic |
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User guide for the software required to play the files created using ArchiveWeb outside the browser extension (once the files are downloaded). |
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A guide to creating web pages which are easier to archive using web archiving methods. |
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An online tool which evaluates if a website will be archived correctly by web archives, such as the Internet Archive. |
Safeguard Your Content
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The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Levels of Digital Preservation |
Technical matrix which describes different levels of preserving digital content. |
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Comic strip that gives advice about creating passwords. |
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Model that allows you to benchmark your progress across a range of digital preservation topics. Level up with RAM contains a range of useful resources related to all of the topics in this toolkit. |