Executive Guide on Digital Preservation

The Executive Guide on Digital Preservation provides practitioners with a combination of generic and specific messages and motivators designed to communicate with senior executives, legislators and budget holders, as well as decision and policy makers with a view to embedding the value of digital preservation at the core of every organization.

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Get Started with the Executive Guide on Digital Preservation

Find out how to use the Executive Guide on Digital Preservation by reading the brief introduction.

• What is your Organisation type?

  Choose from generic statements and tailor them to your own organisation, or select statements specific to a range of organisation types.

• What are your Organisation's Motivators?

  Motivators are topics or issues that are particularly relevant or important to your organization. 

   

• What is Digital Preservation?

  "Digital Preservation is a series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary."

• What are the Risks of not preserving digital materials?

  "Failing to preserve digital materials renders them unusable"

• What Opportunities do preserved digital materials create?

  "Preserving digital materials creates opportunities that align with the key motivators in your organization"

• What does Digital Preservation need?

  "Digital Preservation needs an enabling policy and regulatory environment including organisations and technical infrastructure which is appropriately resourced."

• Facts and Figures

  Add evidence which supports the case for Digital Preservation to your templates

• Templates

  Download editable PowerPoint and Word templates and customise them with statements from the Executive Guide.