1. START EARLY Save time Image : Alan Cleaver on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alancleaver/ 4293345631/

2. Make a plan for how what you are going to do with your material (digital and analogue)… … both during the project and once it’s finished

3. Make plans to: STORE IT SAFELY SHARE ITEXPLAIN IT www.shareaholic.com/openshareicon Colin_K on flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/colinkinner/ 2200500024/ Cennydd via flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/cennydd/2687237902/

4. …it will save you time in the end Get into good habits early in your research… By jemsweb on flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/jemsweb/4363548805/ Image: Beth Kanter www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/ 260004685/

5. The perfect is the enemy of the good ~ Voltaire

6. Start Early Make a plan for how you will manage your research material both during and after your research project Consider how you will: –Explain it –Store it safely –Share it Get into good habits early in your research Ask for advice –Talk to repositories and data centres

7. Open Access Teaching Materials for Digital Preservation Produced by Anna Collins (2012) for the JISC- funded PrePARe project This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License