SESSION 5: "Connect the Dots: Build Digital Preservation into Your Public Records Lifecycle"
OVERVIEW: This Forum session will provide real life examples of how government archivists and records custodians are modernizing the management of long-term and permanent electronic records by integrating digital preservation practices and technology into the records management life cycle.
Attendees will hear about web harvesting and preservation in near-real time (Kate Telford, Rhode Island State Archives), automation of normalization and preservation workflows for large scale County real property records (Preservica), integration of preservation action with content management systems (Tanya Marshall, Vermont State Records and Archives Administration), and creative ways to facilitate citizen search and retrieval in digitized historical collections (Rebekah Davis, Limestone County Archives).
In this session, attendees will also learn:
- Innovative ways to automatically capture and preserve Twitter
- Simple steps you can take today to advance your digital preservation capabilities
- How to make active digital preservation a seamless part of your Office 365 ecosystem
GARA COMPETENCY AREAS: "Records and Information Management Basics" OR "Electronic Records and Information Management" OR "Archives and Long-term Preservation"
SPEAKERS: Facilitated by Lori Ashley, Principal Consultant, Tournesol Consulting, with panelists Rebekah Davis, Archivist, Limestone County Archives, Tanya Marshall, Vermont State Archivist and Chief Records Officer, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration, Office of Secretary of State, and Kate Telford, Senior Digital Archivist, RI Department of State