Digital preservation encompasses all activities involved in managing digital materials and stewarding them into the future. This involves preservation strategies such as migration, file normalization, and emulation, as well as activities surrounding disaster planning, preservation metadata capture, etc. Materials to be preserved include those that are created through digitization projects and those created and maintained digitally (born-digital). Learn more about digital preservation including links to resources, initiatives and professional organizations.
Digital Preservation Services are available to collection managers across Indiana University and include consultation on file and media migration, file format recommendations, and overall project guidance. If you are a collection manager interested in learning more about Digital Preservation Services, please contact Digital Collections Services.