The course blog for Digital Preservation a graduate seminar at the University of Maryland. One of the explicit goals of this course is for us to develop as communicators on the public web. So please do join our conversation, but please do so respectfully. We are all learning how to do this together.
The American Association of Geographers sounds like a really cool institution. It sounds like they will really benefit from working on a digital preservation plan with them. Do they have any active digital repositories for their digital content to be stored or accessed? Do they have a staff big enough to handle a hands on approach to digital preservation, or would a digital management system, like ArchivesSpace or Preservica, help them take care of the heavy lifting? It sounds like you may have a lot of freedom in exploring the many ways you can carry out digital preservation and that could be exciting having so much currently undecided.