What Were We Thinking? Successes and Lessons Learned after Going Live with our Digital Preservation Program

Keywords

J. Willard Marriott Library, digital preservation program, SIMP, DAMS

Abstract

The J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah began to
seriously investigate preserving its digital assets in 2008 and went
live with a digital preservation system (DPS) in 2014. This chapter
serves as a case study of the library’s overall digital preservation program, and
discusses the investigation into and eventual implementation of the DPS. The
installation process, which took more than one year, ended with the library’s
in-house developers creating the Submission Information Metadata Packaging
(SIMP) Tool, a workflow management tool that changed the way content is
ingested into the library’s digital asset management system (DAMS) and DPS.

Original Publication Citation

Keller, T. and Myntti, J. (2018). What Were We Thinking? Successes and Lessons Learned after Going Live with our Digital Preservation Program. In Myntti, J. and Zoom, J. (Eds.), Digital preservation in libraries: Preparing for a sustainable future. Chicago, IL: ALA Editions. https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jd96st

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2018

Publisher

Chicago

Language

English

College

Harold B. Lee Library

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

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