The course blog for Digital Preservation a course at the University of Maryland College Park. 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.
You’re right, Mallory – the lines of communication we set in place really do have “real-world consequences.” I think this really gets at what one of the main messages in the class, which I think can be summed up as “Yes, digital preservation is a thing and, yes, you can do it.”
Getting stakeholders involved with the conversations, going through the NDSA Levels, and having our clients articulate *what* and *why* they were preserving their materials is a huge project in and of itself. I found that just establishing those lines of communications was harder than writing up the individual documents!