Digital Preservation – John Michael Dewees

File-Naming Till the End Times

At my organization we are in a lengthy process to set up a digital preservation service and naturally, during that process one issue that has been tackled is file-naming best practices. Since this is something that I’ve been immersed in lately, I had the thought to perhaps see about writing an article on the topic,Continue reading “File-Naming Till the End Times”

Using PREMIS for Administrative Metadata

In my role as Repository Services Team Lead (née Digital Asset Management Lead) for the University of Rochester I’m helping to orchestrate the creation of a new Digital Preservation Service (DPS), using Preservica as the primary digital preservation platform. To date this has involved the creation of a seemingly endless number of policy and workflowContinue reading “Using PREMIS for Administrative Metadata”

Migrating Digital Assets from Islandora to Preservica

About four months ago I was hired as the Digital Asset Management Lead at the University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries. One of the big areas of work that I am responsible for is establishing a sustainable digital preservation service using (among other resources) Preservica Cloud Professional edition. The organization currently holds digital assets inContinue reading “Migrating Digital Assets from Islandora to Preservica”

Quick-and-Dirty Email Archiving (But Different)

In 2019 myself and a colleague endeavored to find a straightforward way to collect email newsletters being regularly distributed by Toledo/Lucas County-area organization such as the art museum or city government to keep their audiences informed. The initial formulation of this was to use Zapier to create a lightweight action where an email would beContinue reading “Quick-and-Dirty Email Archiving (But Different)”

Quick-and-Dirty Email Archiving

I was charged by my organization’s executive director with preserving the emails that he has been regularly sending to staff members to keep us up to date on everything that has been happening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Born digital records continue to be an area that I need to professionally develop (using some of thatContinue reading “Quick-and-Dirty Email Archiving”