Digital Preservation

In Part 1 of this story , we left off with DAP (Digital Accessioning Program) having been burned by the dual-headed dragon known as Degralescence, and further whapped by it’s moldy tail, leaving degraded disks damaged and a new mold problem to face...

This is a long due post about the Digital Accessions Program (DAP), the new service DPS started building in spring of 2024 and has finally been able to launch (check out our wiki for more). DAP is a central service that works with our library partners to...

From January to April 2025, Digital Preservation Services partnered with Harvard University IT (HUIT) Arts and Humanities Research Computing on a pilot to reduce the resource load for maintaining Harvard’s digital humanities projects. The four-month...

World Digital Preservation Day is an annual event sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition to bring international attention to the critical challenges and opportunities of digital preservation stewardship. The theme of this year’s celebration is...

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Digital Preservation Repository. The DRS is Harvard Library’s centrally-supported platform for long-term preservation of Harvard’s deep, broad, and unique digital collections. These materials span all genres and...

Starting a career in libraries often begins with a couple of years of formal education and internships. Then you launch onto the professional scene, where you grasp at continued professional training wherever possible – sometimes through institutional...

Written by: Julianna Barrera-Gomez (Digital Accessions Specialist), Digital Preservation Services Many of us enjoy or even rely on the use of historical web collections – maybe we’re reminiscing about the early web design era (getting inspired by those...

I feel massively privileged to have had the opportunity to intern with EDIBA and the library Conservation/Preservation teams at Harvard, especially with my lack of experience in that particular field. Before my time with EDIBA, I had a few years of...

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 JSTOR to 19th and early...

Julianna Barrera-Gomez has been a valued member of the Digital Preservation Services team for the past 18 months , providing excellent support for the Digital Repository Service ( DRS ) and its stakeholders, coordinating Library-wide web archiving...