Digital Preservation Committee

Charge

The charge of the Digital Preservation Committee is to identify ways in which NASIG can educate and inform its members and the community at large in the ways they can work to ensure digital scholarly content in all formats remains available to future users. The committee will identify and publicize the roles and responsibilities needed for librarians and publishers and will develop some best practices for the industry, including open access. The committee will work collaboratively with other organizations with an interest in digital preservation to ensure that we are working in partnership and broadening the range of our efforts, extending the marketing of appropriate digital preservation activities to a broad range of library administrations and publishers.

Committee Members

Co-chairs

Ella Hitchcock (Stanford University), 23/25
James Phillpotts (Oxford University Press), 23/25
Julie Shi (University of Toronto), 23/25
Erica Zhang (UCLA), 23/25

Members

Amy Carlson (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), 24/26
Shannon Keller (US Dept of State), 24/26
Jeremy Morse (University of Michigan), 24/26
Michelle Polchow (University of California, Davis), 23/25
Abeni Wickham (SciFree), 23/25
Alicia Wise (CLOCKSS), 24/26

Ex Officio

Wendy Robertson (University of Iowa), Keeper's Registry Liaison, ex officio

Board Liaison: Heather Staines (Delta Think)

We want to hear from you! The Digital Preservation Committee is always interested in connecting with the larger NASIG community to learn more about members’ needs, questions, and concerns around the topic of digital preservation. That’s why we’re so excited to launch a new survey for the NASIG community to share their thoughts on this important topic with the committee. The DPC will use the responses submitted through this survey to inform future programming and educational opportunities. Thank you in advance for your ideas and thoughts!
Survey (Google form)

Publications

Model Digital Preservation Policy

Guides

Please send comments to the Committee.

• Digital Preservation 101 - (PDF)
• Talking Points and Questions to ask Publishers about Digital Preservation - (PDF)
• Guide to Keeper's Registry - (PDF)
  

Report

• NASIG Digital Preservation Task Force Survey Results, May 1, 2019 (PDF)

Presentations

Presentations listed below were either presented by individuals serving on the committee, presented at NASIG-sponsored events, or were included in this list due to their being informative for the study and understanding of digital preservation. NASIG webinars on Preservation are now clustered.

• Digital Preservation for Books (Webinar, 24 September 2024)
  Claire Holloway, Ruth Jones, Neil Jefferies, Alicia Wise, Mikael Laakso
  [YouTube]
  
  
• Using the ISSN Portal to Check the Status of Your Journal Collections Regarding Digital Preservation (NASIG 2024)
  Bequet, G., Polchow, M. & Keller, S., (2024), NASIG Proceedings 38. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/nasig.6737
  
  
• Publishers Preserving Publishing (NASIG Digital Preservation Webinar, November 28 2023
  Carol Tullo and Ruth Frendo, The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers ; Martin Maw, Oxford University Press
  [YouTube]
  
  
• Creating a Publishing Preservation Policy (Library Publishing Forum, 24 May 2023)
  Corinne Guimont, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Virginia Tech
  [YouTube]
  
  

• Launch of the NASIG Model of Digital Preservation Policy (NASIG 2022, 6 June 2022)
  Heather Staines ; Abeni Wickham ; Willa Liburd Tavernier
  [Sched Listing | Slides]
  
  

• Integrating Preservation into Librarian Workflows (NASIG Digital Preservation Webinar, 29 March 2022)
  Jill Emery ; Sunshine Carter
  [YouTube]
  
  

• A Model Preservation Policy for Digital Publishers & Preservers (NASIG Webinar, 16 September 2021)
  Jennifer Regala ; Jeremy Morse ; Corinne Guimont
  [YouTube]
  
  

• Ensuring Continuity of Access: Best Practices in Digital Preservation and Content Transfer (NASIG 2021, May 21, 2021)
  Emily Elliot
  [Proceedings Article | YouTube]
  
  

• Heeding the Call: Finding At-Risk Electronic Titles in University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiian Collection (NASIG 2021, May 21, 2021)
  Amy J. Carlson ; Jodie Mattos
  [Proceedings Article | Slides ]
  
  

• From the Cradle to the Digital Vault: Tracking the Path of E-journals (NASIG 2021, May 19, 2021)
  Gaëlle Béquet
  [Proceedings Article | Slideshare]
  
  

• Licensing E-Resources: Is your Publisher a Preservationist? (NASIG Webinar, 18 March 2021)
  James Phillpotts ; Michelle Polchow
  [Slides (PowerPoint)] (link broken)
  
  
• Open Access Content Under Threat: Internet Archive and Portico (NASIG Webinar, 19 November 2020)
  Stephanie Orphan ; Jefferson Bailey
  
  
• Where Do We Keep That? The New Keepers Registry and the Digital Content in Your Collection (NASIG 2020, June 11, 2020) 
  Willa Tavernier ; Ted Westervelt
  [Proceedings Article | Slideshare | YouTube]
  
  
• Exploring Perpetual Access (NASIG 2020, June 11, 2020)
  Michelle Polchow
  [Proceedings Article | Slideshare | YouTube]
  
  
• Demystifying Digital Preservation: Recommendations for Organizations, Libraries, and Information Professionals (NASIG 2019, 6 June 2019)
  Shannon Keller
  [Proceedings Article | Slides (PDF)]
  
  
• Seasons of Change: Digital Preservation in an Ever-Changing Digital Environment (Charleston Conference, 8 November 2018)
  Heather Staines ; Shannon Keller ; Bob Boissy
  [Slides (PDF)]
  
  
• Digital Preservation Task Force Update (NASIG 2018, 9 June 2018)
  Shannon Regan Keller ; Wendy C. Robertson ; Kim Steinle
  [Proceedings Article | Slides]
  
  
• Digital Preservation for Library Publishers: Raising Awareness (Library Publishing Forum 2018, 22 May 2018)
  Heather Staines, "NASIG Digital Preservation Task Force" ; Wendy C. Robertson, "Digital Preservation and Small Library Publishers" ; Jeremy Morse, "Preservation Policies, And Why Every Publisher Needs One"
  [Slides]
  
  
• Stewardship of the Digital Scholarly Record and of Each Nation’s Published Heritage (NASIG 2017, 10 June, 2017)
  Peter Burnhill ; Gaëlle Béquet ; Alan Darnell ; Ted Westervelt
   [Proceedings Article | Slides (PowerPoint) | Slideshare]
  
  
• Vision Session: Building a Social Compact for Preserving E-Journals (NASIG 2015, 30 May, 2015)
  Anne Kenney
  [Proceedings Article | YouTube]
  
  
• Vision Session: From a System of Journals to a Web of Objects (NASIG 2014, 3, May, 2014)
  Herbert Van de Sompel
  [Proceedings Article | YouTube]
  
  
• Preserving Content from Your Institutional Repository (NASIG 2013, 8 June, 2013)
  Wendy C. Robertson and Carol Ann Borchert
  [Proceedings Article | Slideshare]
  
  
• Tracking Perpetual Access: A Survey of Librarian Practice (NASIG 2013, 7 June 2013)
  Chris Bulock
  [Proceedings Article | Slideshare]