Museum Digital File Preservation: File Access
Basics of maintaining digital file integrity and access, tips for how museum staff can protect and preserve museum digital files.
Basics of maintaining digital file integrity and access, tips for how museum staff can protect and preserve museum digital files.
Museum expert primer on digital file integrity and how the museum can help to ensure museum digital files are as healthy and whole as possible.
There are three things to consider before making a digitization equipment purchase: fit, time, and budget; tips from a museum expert.
Training is critical to a successful digital project and is where using a consultant can yield a high Return on Investment (ROI).
With CMS selection led by a consultant, decision-makers can feel confident in the chosen tool and more easily agree to the financial investment.
A museum consultant digital project manager is a great investment, because they can help streamline project work and keep it on track.
A museum digital project framework blueprints how to get a successful project outcome, saving time and money while identifying and planning resources.
Highlights several digital project types where a museum consultant can be beneficial. Outlines how a consultant can help support museum staff.
Prioritizing a sustainable approach to your projects will help you get the important work done while also helping protect non-work time and wellbeing
Sustainability is a practice; improves work life balance, alleviates chronic stress, ensures work you perform receives the best of your attention.
Implementing project management principles and tools saves museum staff time, keeps projects on budget and on time, and helps avoid costly mistakes
Effective teams involving a hybrid of museum staff, interns, and volunteers require established communication patterns, unified training, and respect.
Museums are steadily transitioning from exploitative labor practices to more ethical labor practices; this should apply to interns and volunteers
It’s easy for museums to create term or contract positions to increase capacity but with minimal compensation; but it’s ethical to avoid exploitation
Museum digital projects are inherently complex and require an understanding of the technology involved. Staff, volunteers, and interns all play a role.
Museums have largely based their success on capitalist models, using for-profit values of power, productivity, and economic metrics of success.
Many disasters are driven by climate change; museums can use their nonpartisan credibility and communications skills to build climate policy consensus.
Mental health for both museum staff and the external museum community is important; museums can be good for our mental and physical health.
Analysis of some of society’s broader physical infrastructure issues that keep seniors from fully participating in the museum world.
Museums offer innovative educational experiences. The pandemic provided an opportunity for museums to fill a gap in educational programming;
Digitization is not a reason for disposal of the original, especially in archives. Digitization is a preservation tool, not a replacement tool.
When creating digital preservation policies, consider the file types used, where and how files are saved, and how they may be accessed in the future.
It’s a myth that digitizing museum collections is too expensive, slow, or hard from a technical perspective. Provides context and ideas.
Museum collection digitization is not cheap, not fast, not technically easy. Museum professionals should educate stakeholders about this myth.
There are five museum digitization myths, and it’s time to dispel them. The first myth is that we can or should digitize the entire museum collection