1. Digital Archiving Without Preservation is Just Storage: Education is the First Step to Achieving Preservation Goals Sue Kriegsman Lee Mandell Harvard University Library Imaging Science & Technology – Archiving April 21, 2004 San Antonio, TX

3. Need for Education about Digital Preservation Without knowledge about digital preservation, industry will not create the necessary products essential for preservation, digital labs will not offer appropriate services for preservation, and consumers and collection managers will be left with a bucket of undifferentiated bits.

5. Informal, Non-scientific, Poll Do you use a film or digital camera? How do you store digital images? How long will digital images last? Do you think digital images will need maintenance? Have you heard of the phrase “digital preservation?”

7. Poll Results 63% use digital or both film and digital cameras 67% of those who only use film cameras still have digital images 80% believe digital will last at least as long or longer than film 63% think digital images will need maintenance within 10 years 31% have heard the phrase “digital preservation”

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20. 9 Things to Teach and Learn (1-5) Select what should be preserved. All media is ephemeral. Plan for format obsolescence. The expectations for quality will change over time. Look around now and then predict the future.

21. Things to Teach and Learn (6-9) Don’t forget the “M” word: metadata. Open vs. proprietary formats must be considered for digital preservation. Lossy compression actually degrades digital images. Specialized repositories are needed for preservation.

25. Resources Sue Kriegsman suzanne_kriegsman@harvard.edusuzanne_kriegsman@harvard.edu Lee Mandell lee_mandell@harvard.edulee_mandell@harvard.edu Soapbox and pie images by V VanSant Domesday Redux: Ariadne Issue 35 (2003) Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/tna/http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/tna/ http://ois.harvard.edu/~lee/preservation