Some of our focus group attendees have shared further information about their own documentation practices, and a number of other helpful case studies are also included below:
Presentations given at launch event
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Developing Deaccession Procedures at the Archaeology Data Service - Olivia Foster, Digital Archives Officer, Archaeology Data Service
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Documentation at the British Film Institute - Lucy Wales, Digital Preservation Manager and Jennifer Macmillan, Collections Systems Specialist, British Film Institute
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Making Cooperative Digital Preservation Documentation Sustainable - Cliff Landis, Co-Chair, MetaArchive Cooperative Documentation Committee
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Versioning your Documentation: Remembering Why You Used to Do Something ‘That Way’ - Nathan Tallman, Digital Preservation Librarian, Penn State University Libraries
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Developing procedures for processing incoming digital acquisitions at State Library Victoria - Carey Garvey, Senior Digital Preservation Specialist, State Library Victoria
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Documenting digital preservation workflows and procedures across multiple teams at the State Library of NSW - Matthew Burgess, Lead Digital Archivist, State Library New South Wales
Interviews with focus group attendees
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James Doig, Assistant Director, Digital Archiving Innovation and Research, describes approaches to digital preservation documentation at the National Archives of Australia.
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Leo Konstantelos, Senior Assistant Archivist (Digital), describes approaches to digital preservation documentation at the University of Glasgow.
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Ziggy Potts, Digital Preservation Technical Assistant, describes approaches to digital preservation documentation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Other community case studies
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In the Information Maintainers November 2020 meeting, Kaitlin Newson from Scholar’s Portal discusses the actions, routines, and communities that are needed to support and maintain the documentation needs of information systems:
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The DPC’s annual Workflow Webinar series can be a rich resource for learning about digital preservation workflows. These webinars sometimes touch on documentation and often include workflow diagrams as a part of the presentation. One interesting case study (using GitHub as a public documentation platform) can be found in a presentation from Julia Miller from the PARADISEC archive from 2023. This is an interesting presentation in which she shares some of the organization’s online documentation and also related questions about documentation in the Q&A session at the end.