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Digital Preservation

Digital preservation and its important modules: Identify, Select, Store, Protect, Manage, and Provide. Based on the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Train the Trainer Workshop, and in support of Staff Day 2017

Planning and Assessment Tools

Digital Preservation Collaboratives

MetaArchive, http://www.metaarchive.org/ 
Chronopolis, http://libraries.ucsd.edu/chronopolis/
Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust), http://aptrust.org/
Digital Preservation Network (DPN), http://www.dpn.org/
 

Digital Preservation Organizations

Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG), http://www.asis.org/Pasig/
ALA – ALCTS – PARS – Digital Preservation Interest Group, http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/pars
Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), http://www.asis.org/
Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) – Archiving, http://www.imaging.org/ist/index.cfm
Digital Preservation Coalition, http://www.dpconline.org/
National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/
Digital Curation Centre (DCC), http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ 
Digital Curation Exchange, http://digitalcurationexchange.org 

Electronic Discussion Lists

American Library Association Digital Preservation Discussion List, http://lists.ala.org/wws/info/digipres
JISC DIGITAL-PRESERVATION Email List, https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=DIGITAL-PRESERVATION
Digital Curation Google Group, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/digital-curation