In 2020-1 the Digital Preservation Coalition engaged in a project with The National Archives and the University of Warwick to establish a collaborative approach to manage digital preservation risk and bring statistical risk management methods into the digital heritage sphere.
Safeguarding the Nation’s Digital Memory created a structured evidence base to map and explain risk and developed a tool (DiAGRAM - the Digital Archives Graphical Risk Assessment Model) to enable archivists to prioritise threats and select suitable actions to mitigate them.
The DPC supported the project by hosting a number of online dissemination events.
- Quantifying Digital Preservation Risk: introducing a new tool for decision making (online workshop 1) - 16th June 2020
- Quantifying Digital Preservation Risk: introducing a new tool for decision making (online workshop 2) - 17th July 2020
- Quantifying Digital Preservation Risk: introducing a new tool for decision making (online workshop 3) - 27th July 2020
- Quantifying Digital Preservation Risk: the story so far - 15th October 2020
The DPC also carried out an evaluation of the project:
- Safeguarding the Nation's Digital Memory. Project Evaluation Report for the National Archives - February 2021 (http://doi.org/10.7207/op21-01)
The project was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Visit Safeguarding the Nation’s Digital Memory project website for further information about this project.