Digital Preservation Services is supporting a multi-institutional initiative to establish a Greek Digital Journal Archive (GDJA) / Tο Αρχείο Ελληνικών Ψηφιοποιημένων Περιοδικών] (ΑΕΨΠ).  This effort ensures open online access via...

Dr. Stephen Abrams, Head of Digital Preservation Services at Harvard Library, is the recipient of the 2023 NDSA Excellence Award for Individual achievement. The Individual award is given to those that significantly impact the digital preservation community, through their advancements in theory and/or practice, and it was presented to Stephen at the annual NDSA Digital Preservation...

The first Thursday of every November is World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD2023). This year, Harvard Library’s Digital Preservation Services (DPS) team reflect on a question every library colleague must learn to...

Dr. Stephen Abrams, Head of Digital Preservation in Harvard Library Preservation Services, recently joined the Tech Policy Grind podcast to discuss digital preservation policies and strategy, challenges, opportunities, and more!  

The Tech Policy Grind podcast is hosted by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry. In episode 25 of season 4, Dr. Abrams is interviewed by...

On Tuesday, April 18th 2023, Digital Preservation Services and Library Technology Services gave a joint presentation about new email archiving tools and workflows at Harvard Library. This presentation was an update on the work originally introduced in February 2021, and you can...

Harvard Library is proud to announce a new membership in the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC). The DPC is an international charitable foundation which supports digital preservation and helps its members around the world to deliver resilient long-term access to digital content and services through community engagement, advocacy, training and workforce development, capacity building, research, and best practices and standards for effective preservation through good management and...

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. 

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Media Preservation Services audio engineer Bruce Gordon works to digitize and preserve analog content for Harvard.

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Every four years, the Digital Preservation team collaborates with Library Technology Services (LTS) to implement a storage refresh for Harvard’s digital preservation repository, the DRS. While this is an established routine, the teams took advantage of the timing of...

Digital Preservation Services is delighted to announce a new collaborative project between Harvard University, the University of Manchester, and Stanford University to enhance our collective capacity to archivally acquire, process, preserve, and make available email collections. As critical documentation of life in the digital age, the preservation of email is central to the mission and values of archives and archivists. This project, entitled ...

On February 18th 2021, the Digital Preservation team invited colleagues across Harvard Library to pull up their chairs, squint at their Zoom screens, and learn a bit about the email archiving at Harvard Library. Stephen Abrams, Head of Digital Preservation, and Tricia Patterson, Digital...

by Tricia Patterson, Digital Preservation Analyst

A scholar walks into an online discovery platform. The scholar says to the search bar, “Can I get the archived website of Harvard’s Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies from 2007?” The search bar looks confused; “Archived website? We don’t have any of those here – how about a Networked Resource or a Manuscript instead?” The scholar sighs in defeat, abandoning their research forever…

Okay, so maybe that’s overstating the ramifications.

But Harvard Library’s web archives collections have never been...