Digital Long Term Preservation (DLTP)

Where to begin?

Imagine you find a digital copy of a media file that you want to use…

Step by step

You want to use/open it:

• What is it stored on?
• What do you do?
• What do you expect?
• What do you think is necessary for that to be possible?

Components to deal with?

• Which carrier?
• Which format?
• Which properties?
• Which player/tools?
• Which storage?
• Which catalog/database?
• For whom?

Layers / Components

Layers / Components

• Physical carrier (+drive?)
• Hardware interface (controller, cables, schematics, …)
• Software interface (driver, protocols, …)
• Filesystem
• The File
• Container format
• Content format(s) (codecs, MD formats, etc)
• The actual content.

The other direction

You were looking for something specific in a collection…

Okay, Digital:

Layers / Components

• A Collection
• A tool to search & find
• Retrieve data from storage
• Access a copy
• The File

The Challenge Begins