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readiness activities that they can take. They
provide links to technical resources that
curators can either implement themselves or
work with their technical staff to implement (for
more, see How to Use the Guidelines below).
What is "Digital Preservation"?
It is important to understand at the outset what
we mean when we use the term "digital
preservation." Digital preservation is widely
understood as the "series of managed activities
necessary to ensure continued access to digital
materials for as long as necessary."' An
operative term in this definition is "managed
activities." Institutions seeking to preserve
digital materials must understand that
preservation requires planning, care, and
coordination over time. The definition does not
seek to quantify the purpose, scope, or duration
of preservation - only marking it "for as long as
necessary." Which is to say, institutions usually
do not have a mandate to preserve everything
forever. Digital preservation is instead an
ongoing process that can be undertaken
pragmatically and incrementally.
Understanding Standards for Digital
Newspapers
Digital preservation standards and practices
grow annually in number and complexity. As a
result, it is hard to know where to start, or how
to define workflows that will last a reasonable
length of time.
An institution that seeks to preserve its digital
newspapers may turn to various authoritative
sources to get its bearings. It might turn to
1 Digital Preservation Coalition, "Introduction -
Definitions and Concepts," available at:
http://www.dpconline.org/advice/preservationhand
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the Library of Congress2 or the newspaper
sections and working groups of various library
and archival professional associations such as
the Center for Research Libraries Global
Resources Network (CRL GRN),3 the American
Library Association (ALA),4 the Society of
American Archivists (SAA),5 or the International
Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).6 It
might also turn to various professional listservs
such as newslib,7 digi-pres,8 code41ib,9 or digital-
curation.10
Along the way, an institution almost certainly
will gain familiarity with the standards known as
2 Library of Congress, "Digital Preservation,"
available at: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/.
3 Center for Research Libraries Global Resources
Network, "Global Resources Program," available at:
http://www.crl.edu/grn.
4 Association for Library Collections & Technical
Services, "Newspaper IG," available at:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/ig/ats-dgnews.
5 Society of American Archivists, "Homepage,"
available at: http://www2.archivists.org/.
6 International Federation of Library Associations,
"Newspapers Section," available at:
http://www.ifla.org/newspa pers.
7 Newslib, "Homepage," available at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/NewsLib/newsliblyri
s.html.
8 American Library Association, "digipres- Digital
Preservation," available at:
http://lists.ala.org/svmpa/info/digipres.
9 Code4Lib, "Homepage," available at:
http://www. Isoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=CODE4LI B
&H=LISTS E RV.N D.EDU.
10 Google Groups, "Digital Curation-Google Groups,"
available at:
https://grou ps.google.com/foru m/#!foru m/digital-
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