DT #443 Organizing your Office and Digital Files with Laura Farley

<p dir="ltr">In this episode, Dennis is joined by Laura Farley Digital Curation Librarian at the People’s Archive at DC Public Library to discuss organizing and preserving your organization's digital files. Laura shares her digital preservation mantra, start small, start now.</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauramfarley/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauramfarley/</a> </p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">What is digital preservation?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Best practices</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Concepts:</p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="3"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Inventory: Documents, usable, available, scalable, current</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="3"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Use familiar software, be consistent, comprehensive, and concise</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="3"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">You choose the level of detail</p> </li> </ul> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="3"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">You can’t and don’t want to keep everything - storage can be cheap but management is not</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="3"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">How to select: Review and prioritize, define, document, implement</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="2"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Identify: what do you have</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="2"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Select: what to preserve</p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="4">Store: <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="4">long term storage of materials</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="3"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">File format, access</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="3"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Access needs: online, near-line, offline storage, -- it depends on how quickly you need to access your files.</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-