Course overview
This course will give students the skills to analyse and critically evaluate the complex challenges and the key principles and strategies to safeguard digital collection assets throughout their lifecycle. Challenges and risks to digital collections' continuity throughout their lifecycle and the complexities of developing a digital preservation program. Application of preservation principles to the management of digital collection assets. Application and evaluation of digital preservation strategies including, tools and technologies such as digital preservation systems standards and frameworks. Management and resourcing considerations for digital preservation programs that require interrelated and interdependent parts, including environmental sustainability, legal, ethical and cultural issues, interoperability with risk management and information systems, as well as interconnecting with non-digital preservation programs in order to effectively safeguard digital collection assets.
Course learning outcomes
- Critically analyse the complex challenges and risks in safeguarding digital collection assets.
- Critically analyse and synthesise the key principles in selecting what to preserve.
- Critically analyse and interpret the current major international technological strategies and systems used in digital preservation programs.
- Identify and critically analyse the complex issues relating to the ongoing management and resourcing of digital preservation programs.
- Interpret the inter-relationships with broader preservation risks across the information environment, including information systems and interconnections with non-digital preservation programs.
- Synthesise and apply preservation principles and strategies in an industry context to identify key risks and make appropriate recommendations to develop preservation plans and strategies for digital collection assets.
Availability
Class details
Online
Class number 2149
Section 01OL
Size 30
Available 18
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