The following is a list of additional resources that can help with planning, building, and maintaining your DAR. Use this as a reference point for further reading on the subject.
General Resources
Novice to Know-How: Digital Preservation for Beginners training – A training course offering a practical introduction to digital preservation.
https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/prof-development/n2kh-online-training
The Digital Preservation Handbook – An authoritative and practical guide to digital preservation.
https://www.dpconline.org/handbook
Awesome Digital Preservation – A community-owned list of resources for digital preservation.
https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation#get-started
DPC RAM – A broadly-scoped maturity model for digital preservation that supports benchmarking of current capabilities and future planning.
https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/implement-digipres/dpc-ram
NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation – A maturity model focusing on the more process-orientated elements of digital preservation.
https://ndsa.org/publications/levels-of-digital-preservation/
DPC Topical Notes Series – A set of 2-page introductions to key digital preservation issues written in plain English for use in advocacy and when talking to non-specialists.
https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/discover-good-practice/tech-watch-reports#topical-notes-series
The National Archives (UK) Digital Preservation Workflows – Guidance on how to establish digital preservation processes at your organization.
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/advice-and-guidance/managing-your-collection/preserving-digital-collections/digital-preservation-workflows/
Advocacy
Executive Guide on Digital Preservation – A guide containing messages and motivators that can be used to communicate with senior executives, legislators, and budget holders, as well as decision and policy makers, about digital preservation.
https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/implement-digipres/dpeg-home
Business Case Toolkit – A toolkit to help with preparing a business case for securing resources.
https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/implement-digipres/business-case-toolkit
The Bit List – A list of “digitally endangered species” that can aid with advocacy.
https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/champion-digital-preservation/bit-list
Characterization Tools
DROID - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/manage-information/preserving-digital-records/droid/
FITS - https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits
Siegfried - https://www.itforarchivists.com/siegfried/
JHOVE - https://jhove.openpreservation.org/
Data Accessioner - https://github.com/digitalpowrr/DataAccessioner
Risk Management
DiAGRAM – A tool to help with managing risks to your digital content.
https://diagram.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
SPOT – A model for understanding technological risks.
https://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/vermaaten/09vermaaten.html
DRAMBORA – A model and tool to allow practitioners to audit digital preservation risks.
https://www.dcc.ac.uk/tools/drambora
Metadata
Dublin Core - https://www.dublincore.org/