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Small Steps - Long View: how a museum service turned an oral history headache into an opportunity

The benefits of digital preservation can be expressed in terms of new opportunities they create in the short and long term.  Even relatively simple steps can bring early rewards if properly embedded within the mission of an organization.

This case note examines Glasgow Museums' approach to its large and growing digital collections.  It describes how some simple steps in addressing digital preservation have created short and long term opportunities for the museums.  They used some very traditional simple and well know approaches - creating an inventory, assessing significance and promoting access - as the basis for building confidence to manage the wider challenges they face. 

Full text of the case note available here.