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Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks
May 5, 2009

Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks

Over the past six years, the members of the MetaArchive Cooperative have worked to identify a series of best practices for distributed digital preservation readiness. These best practices can benefit ongoing initiatives as well as start-up programs which have not yet established regular procedures and standards for directory structures, metadata, and file naming conventions. We … Continue reading Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks