Slides from the presentation Stephanie Taylor, the senior Digital Preservation Consultant at CoSector University of London, gave at the DPASSH2017 conference

1. The Future Is Hybrid
DPASSH Conference
University of Sussex
15th June 2017
Stephanie Taylor, Senior Consultant, Digital Preservation Team
stephanie.taylor@London.ac.uk
@CoSector_DP

2. What is hybrid?

3. Hybrid is…
Some digital
Some hard copies/analogue
Not ‘perfect’
Useful

4. Hybrid survives because it works

5. Keeping our heads…

6. Not everything will be digital…
We can’t digitise the backlog
We don’t want to digitise the backlog
Not everything will be born digital from
now on

7. Hybrid Archivists

8. Just another set of formats…
Archivists have most of the skills we need
We can develop hybrid archivists with –
□Training
□Collaboration
□Encouragement

9. We’re all archivists now…

10. Learning from archivists...
Selection + appraisal
What ‘long-term’ means
Curation of content
Why backing up is NOT preservation(!)

11. Re-imagining what we all do…

12. Flickr Commons Credits
Platypus – British Library, Flickr Commons
□ http://bit.ly/2rzr1My
Hydra – Internet Archive, Flickr Commons
□ http://bit.ly/2svq38W
Unicorn - Internet Archive, Flickr Commons
□ http://bit.ly/2tpWsKt
Squirrels – Miami University Libraries, Flickr Commons
□ http://bit.ly/2tpzmUc
Phoenix – British Library, Flickr Commons
□ http://bit.ly/2rk8lB2
Flying Sea Dragon – Tasmanian Archive & Record Office, Flickr
Commons
□ http://bit.ly/2svEfPo

13. Digital Preservation Training &
Consultancy Services
More about our work –
www.cosector.com/digital-preservation/
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