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Starting with the Digital Preservation Policy Framework, minted in 2013, there are several principal documents listed in the aforementioned "Documentation" that needed to be reviewed for currency, as well as to benchmark progress and levels of success of the various recommendations made within the reports. While, a lot of the content of these documents go beyond just digital preservation practices, it is their intersectionality with digital preservation that is important. The following exploration reviews these key documents, identifying their importance to a digital preservation ethos, providing an analysis as to where we have been effective, as well as less than successful, and proposes recommended action items.The action items are listed as:
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- Key action items will be the completion of Tasks #2 and #3, Repository Review and Content Review respectively.
- Assigned to: Digital Preservation Librarian
- Distinctive Collections' collecting policies need to be reviewed for preservation intents, in conjunction with prior MOM priorities determinations, metadata readiness, and adherence to standards to guide further MOM actions and dispositions. Further, they need to be integrated into the Digital Content Documentation Portal.
- Assigned to: Digital Preservation Librarian for intial documentation review and recommendations for further action.
Digital Reformatting Guidelines for 2D Imaging (2016)
"The Ohio State University Libraries is committed to creating high-quality, high-value digital content that is made as widely accessible as rights permit and that is securely managed and preserved for the long term...The following guidelines are based on published standards and are recommended Libraries-wide for all digital reformatting, regardless of which unit or department within the Libraries performs the digitization or scanning [emphasis added] . Adherence to community standards for the creation of good digital collections helps the Libraries ensure that content can be efficiently and effectively managed, preserved and made accessible over the long-term. This document was created in response to the need for a policy around Content Standards identified in the White Paper entitled “Implementation of a Modern Digital Library at the Ohio State University Libraries”, produced by the Strategic Digital Initiatives Working Group. These guidelines apply to scanning and still digital imaging of 2- and 3-dimensional works; guidelines will be developed in the future for reformatting of time-based, dynamic and multimedia collections, and for 3-dimensional scanning and modeling...Standards for digital reformatting are numerous and, of necessity, complex. A digital file is a multipart construction whose encoding fixes decisions about access and long-term preservation into the file itself. The appropriate standards to employee can vary from one project to the next, and from one object to the next. These guidelines address some of the most common factors affecting the accessibility, usability, and long-term viability of digital objects..."
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