From Risk to Resilience: A Practical Introduction to Digital Preservation

This session introduces digital preservation, explores key concepts in the field, and discusses strategies to maintain the integrity of digital content over time. The course will also cover emerging technologies and challenges and their impact on digital preservation work. By the end of the course, participants will understand the complexity of digital objects, the unique risks facing digital content, and the practical approaches taken to mitigate these risks.

 Learning Outcomes

  • Learn what digital preservation is and why it is important

  • Explore emerging digital preservation technologies and challenges

  • Understand the complexity of digital objects and the unique risks inherent in preserving them

  • Analyze practical approaches to mitigating these risks

Your Instructor

Grete Graf

Digital Preservation Librarian, Yale University

Grete Graf is a Digital Preservation Librarian at Yale Library, where she helps manage the library’s digital preservation system and collaborates with stakeholders across Yale’s libraries, archives, and museums to ensure the long-term preservation of their digital assets. Grete’s professional interests include digital preservation, data visualization, and web archiving. She is a member of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, the New England Archivists and the U.S. Northeast Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Grete has co-authored an article on automating digital preservation packaging and ingest processes in the Journal of Digital Media Management. She earned her MS in Library and Information Science with a specialization in data curation from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.