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Practical Preservation: West Yorkshire Archive Service accepts a digital collection

Nobody has the perfect answer to digital preservation for every case. If we try we may fail; if we don’t try we will certainly fail.

Digital Preservation can be intimidating for organizations which have previously been used to managing and collecting paper archives.  In this case note, staff from West Yorkshire Archives Service report on their experience in taking their first large digital archive.  This made them confront new problems and new ways of working, they conclude that If we try we may fail; if we don’t try we will certainly fail.

Full text of Case Note now available here.