1. Dispensing with Digital Curation Smoke & Mirrors
Aaron Collie
MSU Libraries

2. What is your best-practice for identifying and implement best-practices?
Which best practice is best?

3. DO YOU EVEN CHECKSUM, BRO?

4. Everybody is talking about it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.
- Dan Ariely

5. But, is there a digital-preservation-shaped-hole in your repository architecture?

6. software development estimates.”
“there are lies,
damned lies, and
software development estimates.”
Braithwaite, R. (2011). What I’ve Learned From Failure. Leanpub. Retrieved from

7. “best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea. And this is the age of the idea”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

8. Culture eats strategy for breakfast
-Peter Drucker