Four projects address first steps or levels of preservation for electronic records: OCLC Research's "You've Got to Walk Before You Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media," CoSA's use of the Digital Preservation Maturity Model, and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance's "Levels of Digital Preservation" and "Minimal Processing for Electronic Records." Discussing these projects together helps archivists reach consensus on a minimal standard for processing and preserving electronic records.
Ricky Erway is senior program officer in OCLC Research, where she focuses on digital library activities, managing born digital materials, and improving support for research in academic libraries. Before RLG and OCLC merged in July of 2006, she was Manager of Digital Resources at RLG... Read More →
External Affairs Liaison, National Archives and Records Administration
Currently External Affairs Liaison for NARA, Meg has been an archivist and records manager throughout her career, in academic, nonprofit, and finally Federal government archives.
