Cooperative Approaches to Digital Preservation

In this panel, representatives from four archives – the MetaArchive Cooperative, Alabama Digital Preservation Network, Data-PASS, and the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System – discuss the versatility, low cost, and compelling benefits of using cooperative distributed digital preservation networks to safeguard categories of digital content that define our culture, identity, and history and that might otherwise be lost as a result of natural disaster, human error, or neglect.