MACinars: 2025 Annual Meeting Session Encore - "Recipes for Digital Preservation Workflows"
Thursday, August 21, 2025
10-11:30 AM EDT / 9-10:30 AM CDT
Missed this session in Minneapolis or weren't able to attend the Annual Meeting at all? You're in luck! At the request of the MAC Education Committee, 2025 MAC Annual Meeting attendees identified this session in the post-conference survey as well-suited for a virtual encore presentation.
Please register at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QB0Wa5qTSIyqabSZ-NV3zg
Description: To conduct digital preservation activities, it is helpful to have a recipe or workflow. One can purchase a ready-to-bake off-the-shelf product, follow an existing recipe step-by-step, or one can improvise. We will hear from representatives of several institutions who will regale us with the progress they have made in developing/adapting their recipes for digital preservation workflows. University of Kentucky will discuss their efforts to define, streamline, and adapt existing workflows for born-digital materials that are elements of large hybrid collections, demonstrating decision trees and automation tools that have helped them fully-bake their workflows. Notre Dame will articulate their efforts to identify tools and develop workflows for born-digital processing/preservation that will work with existing infrastructure. Their work−not yet operationalized−has focused on a number of use cases regarding different media carriers/formats, and how to document handoffs, record actions taken, and other activities for multi-format collections that require input from their archival team. Ohio State will describe the evolution of their newest digital preservation repo−Gray−and how they cooked-up a homemade workflow adapting existing open-source and proprietary tools. Finally, Wayne State will discuss the challenges/opportunities of designing a digital preservation program, while navigating many enterprise-level IT transitions to collaborate on sustainable workflows, accounting for born-digital and digitized materials, their description and appropriate access strategies. While these "recipes" have been developed at medium to large academic institutions, we believe they are adaptable to institutions of all sizes and backgrounds.
Presenters:
Daniel Noonan, The Ohio State University
Jason Kauffman, University of Notre Dame Archives
Scott Kirycki, University of Notre Dame Archives
Ellen LeClere, Wayne State University
Andrew McDonnell, University of Kentucky