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.

Co-Chair: Heather Staines (Delta Think), 20/22
Co-Chair: Michelle Polchow (University of California, Davis), 21/23

Members:
Narine Bournoutian (Columbia University), 21/23
Yael Fitzpatrick (PNAS), 20/22
Tessa Minchew (NC State), 21/23
James Phillpotts (Oxford University Press), 20/22
Jessica Rigg (Georgia Southern University), 21/23
Wendy Robertson (University of Iowa), 20/22
Kelly Sheeran (Catholic University of America), 20/22
Frances Steele (Wisconsin Historical Society), 20/22
Abeni Wickham (SciFree), 21/23
Alicia Wise (CLOCKSS), 21/23

Board Liaison:
Katy Divittorio

Guides:

Please send comments to the Committee.

• Digital Preservation 101 - (PDF)
• Guide to the Keepers Registry - (PDF)
• Talking Points and Questions to ask Publishers about Digital Preservation - (PDF)

Report:

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

Presentations:

• Licensing E-Resources: Is your Publisher a Preservationist? – Slides (PDF), NASIG webinar 18 March 2021
  • James Phillpotts, Oxford University Press
  • Michelle Polchow, University of California, Davis
  • Moderator: Shannon Regan, New York Public Library
• Open Access Content Under Threat: Internet Archive and Portico – NASIG webinar 19 November 2020
  • Stephanie Orphan, Director of Content Preservation for Portico
  • Jefferson Bailey, Director, Web Archiving and Data Services at Internet Archive
• Where do we keep that? The new Keepers Registry and the digital content in your collection – Slideshare | YouTube, NASIG Online Conference, June 11, 2020
  • Willa Tavernier
  • Ted Westervelt
• Exploring Perpetual Access – Slideshare | YouTube, NASIG Online Conference, June 11, 2020
  • Michelle Polchow
• Demystifying Digital Preservation: Recommendations for Organizations, Libraries, and Information Professionals – NASIG - 6 June 2019
  • Shannon Keller
• Seasons of Change: Digital Preservation in an Ever-Changing Digital Environment (PDF) – Charleston Conference, 8 November 2018
  • Heather Staines
  • Shannon Keller
  • Bob Boissy
• Digital Preservation Task Force Update – NASIG, 9 June 2018
  • Shannon Regan Keller
  • Wendy C. Robertson
  • Kim Steinle
• Digital Preservation for Library Publishers: Raising Awareness – Library Publishing Forum, 22 May 2018
  • Heather Staines presented "NASIG Digital Preservation Task Force"
  • Wendy C. Robertson presented "Digital Preservation and Small Library Publishers"
  • Jeremy Morse presented "Preservation Policies, And Why Every Publisher Needs One"

Other NASIG presentations relating to preservation:

• Stewardship of the Digital Scholarly Record – Ted Westervelt (2017)
• Building a Social Compact for Preserving E-Journals – Anne Kenney  (2015)
  
• From a System of Journals to a Web of Objects – Herbert Van de Sompel (2014)
  
• Tracking Perpetual Access: A Survey of Librarian Practice – Chris Bulock (2013)
  
• Preserving Content from Your Institutional Repository – Wendy C. Robertson and Carol Ann Borchert (2013)