Webinar: Sustainable Community-Owned Partnerships in Digital Preservation

Webinar: Sustainable Community-Owned Partnerships in Digital Preservation

Join the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative for a webinar on values-driven, community-supported distributed digital preservation!

By Educopia Institute

Date and time

Friday, June 14 · 8:30 - 10am PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • 1 hour 30 minutes

Community-supported, values-driven digital preservation services operate in a landscape where the increasing economic, labor, and climate challenges are too big for any one organization to tackle alone.

Educopia Institute and the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative (APTrust, Chronopolis, CLOCKSS, lyrasis, the MetaArchive Cooperative, and Texas Digital Library) would like to invite you to a webinar exploring the findings, recommendations, and opportunities illuminated by the IMLS-funded Sustainable Community-Owned Partnerships in Digital Preservation: DPSC Planning Project Final Report.

The Digital Preservation Services Collaborative was funded by the IMLS to reaffirm the need for—and to establish a shared vision for—the sustained viability of values-driven, community-supported approaches to distributed digital preservation (DDP). Beyond gaining a better understanding of the current DDP landscape and conditions in organizations, what emerged was that some non-technical requirements across the information management continuum warrant more attention from our shared services. Those non-technical requirements are “advocacy-as-a-service,” best deployed at the institutional preservation strategy-forming moment; and “readiness-as-a-service,” assisting stewardship organizations that have recently formed their preservation strategy to identify the content, preservation needs, budget realities, etc., as they begin to research the digital preservation services landscape.

Beyond individual organizations, readiness-as-a-service is also a call for collective strategy among values-driven, community-supported bit-level service providers to anticipate and be prepared to respond to change (and to shocks) in a nimble, coordinated, collaborative way. In this webinar, the DPSC asks respected advisors and service users, as well as anyone interested in the future of collaborative digital preservation efforts, questions like:

  • What is the collaborative advocacy you would like to see? How could advocates organize? Who are the targets of this advocacy?
  • What is collective readiness? How can readiness be addressed collectively?
  • What collective funding models help to reduce the impacts of membership fatigue?
  • Together, we will describe the vision for the workshop series described in the findings, as
    well as the resulting common agenda for collective impact in digital preservation.

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Educopia Institute

The Educopia Institute empowers collaborative communities to create, share, and preserve knowledge.

We believe in the power of connection and collaboration. In all of our work, we encourage knowledge sharing and network building across institutions, communities, and sectors. Our strengths include training, neutral community facilitation, and administrative backbone support services for collaborative communities. Educopia also develops and manages applied research projects that benefit our affiliated communities and the broader information fields of libraries, archives, and museums.

We help information stakeholders including researchers, archivists, curators, publishers, and students to establish common ground, work toward shared goals, and ultimately achieve system-wide transformations.

Since its founding in 2006, the Educopia Institute has laid a foundation for sustainable growth and programmatic success by:

  • Maintaining a minimal and flexible staff, enabling us to serve clients with maximum effectiveness at low cost.
  • Working with community leaders to harness state-of-the-field research while developing organizational frameworks, governance structures, and economic models that provide the foundation for community-driven growth and sustainability.
  • Engaging and partnering with diverse stakeholders from public and private spheres representing libraries, archives, presses, research centers and scholars, as well as cultural and scientific non-profits, government agencies and fellow meta-organizations.

Growing beyond its initial support of the MetaArchive Cooperative, the Educopia Institute has entered into program development partnerships with affiliated communities, such as the Library Publishing Coalition and the BitCurator Consortium.