It’s Preservation Week, and you can’t forget about the importance of preserving the multitude of digital memories and records you create throughout your lifetime. 

By understanding the inherent risks to the sustainability of your precious digital content, you can implement some quick and easy solutions to prevent them. 

Assess Your Skills 

Start your journey to digital immortality by evaluating how well you are currently doing. Take this quiz to see where your personal digital archiving skills stand: https://bit.ly/DigiPresQuiz 

Know the Risks 

What would keep your memories from being accessible in 10 years, or 50 years, or next century? Storage media failure, personal error, bit rot, technological obsolescence... there are many threats breathing down the the neck of your digital files. 

Check out this YouTube playlist to enjoy some shorts, cartoon, and music videos and learn more about digital preservation risks and solutions: Digital Preservation! 

Preserve Your Digital Life 

Spend some time implementing these simple steps for your digital content, and you can ensure the future accessibility and usability of all your wonderful digital memories and important records.  

And remember - it’s a journey, not a destination. Nothing is ever preserved; it’s being preserved.