"DIY Digitization & Preservation" presented by Bethany Davis, Digital Processing Coordinator Librarian, for the Iowa City Genealogical Society on October 26, 2013. Materials presented on Personal Digital Archiving can be found at www.digitalpreservation.gov/you.

1. DIY
Digitization &
Preservation
Iowa City Genealogical Society
Presented by Bethany R. Davis
October 26, 2013

2. Who am I?
Bethany Davis
Digital Processing Coordinator Librarian
bethany-davis@uiowa.edu
Phone: (319) 384-2419

3. Outline
* DIY Digitization
* Personal Digital Archiving
* Your Questions Answered

4. DIY Digitization
Don’t scan just because you can.
Scan to share.
Scan the simple things.

5. Do this:
photographs
Frederick W. Kent Photograph Collection - Subseries: Theatre

6. Don’t do that:
scrapbooks
Keith/Albee Vaudeville Theater Collection - Scrapbook 48

7. What resolution?
Typed
Documents
300-400 ppi
Handwritten
documents
400-600 ppi
Photographs
400-600 ppi

8. Left to
Right:
200 ppi
300 ppi
400 ppi
500 ppi
600 ppi
700 ppi
Images from the
ALCTS Minimum
Digitization Capture
Recommendations.
Manuscripts.

9. Capture Resources
Association for Library Collections &
Technical Services (ALCTS)
Minimum Digitization Capture Recommendations
http://www.ala.
org/alcts/resources/preserv/minimumdigitization-capture-recommendations

11. Personal Digital Archiving
* Identify
* Decide
* Organize
* Copy
* Manage

12. 1. Identify your digital files.
Where are they?
Creative
Commons
license.
Digitpedia
Creative Commons license. Graham Ballantyne.
Google and the Google logo are registered trademarks of Google Inc.,
used with permission.

13. 2. Decide what’s important.
What files have long-term value?
- ex) e-filed tax returns.
Keep the highest quality file.
Know why you’re keeping it.

14. 3. Organize your files.
Create useful file names.
P4210024c.jpg
2010_BamPhoto.jpg

15. 3. Organize your files.
* 1 space to
keep files.
* Print screen
* File
descriptions
(good for photos)

16. 4. Copy your digital files.
LOCKSS
Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe
Multiple locations; Multiple types:
Desktop/laptop
Flash drive
External hard drive
Home
Work
Friend’s house

17. 5. Manage your digital files.
* Check your files regularly.
* Schedule updates to add new files
(or to remove files).
* Consider replacing media every 5
years or as necessary.

18. Resource Links
Helpful links compiled by yours truly:
Capture Resources
https://wiki.uiowa.edu/display/DigiDoc/
Capture+Resources
Equipment List
https://wiki.uiowa.edu/display/DigiDoc/
Equipment+List

19. Digital Archiving Link
Library of Congress
Personal Digital Archiving Resources
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/you

20. Who am I?
Bethany Davis
Digital Processing Coordinator Librarian
bethany-davis@uiowa.edu
Phone: (319) 384-2419

21. "DIY Digitization & Preservation"
for the Iowa City Genealogical Society
Find this presentation at
Slideshare.net/BethanyDavis
Presented by Bethany Davis
October 26, 2013