1. Al Cornish, cornish@wsu.edu Systems Librarian Washington State University Libraries Preserving Access to Multimedia Collections

2. Preservation example – Early Washington Maps Collection

20. Bit preservation of Master TIFF files:  Online storage (RAID array, with scheduled backups)  Optical media storage (CD-R, DVD-R)  Considering outsourcing options

23. Preservation support – Networking The three contributing Early Washington Maps collection libraries (University of Washington, Washington State University, Tacoma Public Library) are actively working with the National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA, URL http://www.ngda.org/) to support collection preservation. http://www.ngda.org/

24. Preservation support – Networking The National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA) is one of eight projects funded through the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP, URL http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/). http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ The NGDA host institutions are Stanford University and the University of California-Santa Barbara.

25. Preservation support – Networking Early Washington Maps content will be contributed to the NGDA repository. Some issues to be resolved:  NGDA will develop technical specifications for content.  Agreements between host and contributing institutions.

26. Example: OCLC/DiMeMa CONTENTdm’s Full Resolution capability  Assists with the storage and archiving of full resolution files.  Formats supported include TIFF and MrSID; JPEG2000 support also available in CONTENTdm. Preservation support - Software

47. “Preservation is a collection management, or digital life cycle management, activity with a technology component but also associated policies and procedures.” Mackenzie Smith, “Exploring Variety in Digital Collections…”, Library Trends, Summer 2005 The Preservation Task

48. Preservation example – WSU Oral History Project Public web site using CONTENTdm (URL http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/oralhistoryproject/) http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/oralhistoryproject/ Content includes described, streamed audio files in RealAudio format; use of SMIL technology to create synchronized audio/transcript display WAV format files serve as the preservation master