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Digital Preservation Policies: Technical Considerations

3 Suggestions. Consider your preservation policy a work in progress. Version and date your preservation policy. Separate the more volatile components of your preservation policy from the more stable components.Keep in mind the fact that computers can be time-savers. Automate, Automate, Automate..

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Digital Preservation Policies: Technical Considerations

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    1. Digital Preservation Policies: Technical Considerations SAA Boston: 08-06-2004 Andrea Goethals, FCLA

    2. 3 Suggestions Consider your preservation policy a work in progress. Version and date your preservation policy. Separate the more volatile components of your preservation policy from the more stable components. Keep in mind the fact that computers can be time-savers. Automate, Automate, Automate.

    3. SOME of the technical considerations See your handout for the list� Focus for today: file format decisions

    4. File Format = A usually-documented way a single file structures digital content and possibly metadata about that content. File content := (internal metadata) * (content)+

    5. 3 File Format Examples

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