Digital Preservation – John Michael Dewees

Preserving the Personal Landing Page

In going through my CV on this very landing page this year I came across the same problem that so many of us digital preservationists deal with in our day-to-day professional lives: linked content was starting to get wonky. The Blog Posts section of my CV has a series of posts I put together forContinue reading “Preserving the Personal Landing Page”

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 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 workflow documents, among them our MetadataContinue 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)”