Digital Preservation Lifecycle Management for Multi-media Collections

Increasingly, intellectual content is “born digital.” In order to make it as easy as possible for content creators to preserve their content for the long-term, preservation processes should be integrated into the content production lifecycle. Our project takes an existing video production workflow and integrates it with a digital preservation life-cycle management process that will enable the digital content to be archived for long-term preservation. The collection, “Conversations with History,” is produced at the University of California, Berkeley, edited by University of California, San Diego–TV (UCSD-TV), and broadcast and Web-cast through UCTV. The proposed system will demonstrate an effective preservation methodology by demonstrating a standard reference model for digital preservation lifecycle management that can be integrated into active production workflows.