AIC's 52nd Annual Meeting

Registration required - add this session to your Annual Meeting registration
$165 registration fee; maximum 30 registrants

Do you create and maintain digital records (e.g., condition images, x-rays, data, treatment reports, artist interviews, audiovisual documentation, etc.) at your institution or private practice? According to principle VII in the AIC Code of Ethics, conservators must create “permanent” documentation, but most documentation generated today is digital.
If you’ve ever wanted to know the basics of planning for the long-term availability of your digital conservation records and collections, this workshop is for you. It will not only cover the fundamentals of digital preservation and storage, but will also include a visit to the University of Utah’s Marriott Library Digitization and Digital Preservation departments. Participants will have the opportunity to learn some common tools and techniques for file management and preservation through a series of guided hands-on exercises and will leave with a roadmap for incrementally advancing their own digital preservation efforts. This is an entry-level workshop; no previous experience with digital preservation is necessary.

Attendees will gain an understanding of:

• fundamentals of digital preservation, including what digital files are, the risks to their long-term preservation, and strategies for managing those risks.
• digital preservation storage, how it differs from "back-ups," and how to use key resources developed by the digital preservation community as a roadmap to advance digital preservation efforts.
• digital preservation community, and how conservation professionals and institutions can engage with that community for mutual benefit.
• key tools and techniques that can be immediately applied.