OMA Webinar | Caring for Digital Collections

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Registration deadline: September 20, 2024

Museums are essential institutions that we trust to steward, preserve, and care for our

collective cultural heritage - but the collections and heritage of tomorrow are being created

today in digital formats. How can museums ensure that the digital collections they are

creating and collecting today continue to be available and accessible in the future? The

simple answer is: Start now. Don’t wait. Whether you are digitizing your physical collections to

increase access or creating digital assets in the form of virtual programming, almost all

museums have some amount of digital materials that are in need of care and preservation.

Even with a full-time staff of one or two people, there are steps that museums can take to

start caring for the valuable digital materials in their collections. This webinar will provide an

overview of these initial steps, and will include:

• An overview of digital preservation concepts and challenges
• How to create an inventory to know what digital materials you have
• Basic strategies to protect and preserve digital collections
• Resources to learn more and help you get started
  
  

About our speaker:

Sam Meister is an archivist and educator based in Columbus, Ohio who has been working in and

with libraries, archives, museums, galleries, artists, and nonprofit organizations for over 15 years.

With his consulting practice, Future Access For All, he is seeking to expand archival thinking and

practice to new contexts, to guide and support people in taking action to ensure the digital materials

they are creating continue to exist for as long as they need them. He is drawn to this work because

he sees the potential for people to create their own archives for their creative practices, their

organizations, and their communities. He also teaches courses and workshops on digital

preservation. Previously, Sam served as the Preservation Communities Manager at the Educopia

Institute, and before that as the Digital Archivist at the University of Montana. He received his M.L.I.S

from San Jose State University, and B.A. in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego.

When: Monday, September 23, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Where: Online – complete webinar login details will be sent to participants after registeringCost: $10 – OMA Members; $15 Non-members

TAM Members: Use code TAMMEMBER at checkout to receive the OMA member rate.

Please contact Johnna McEntee at oma@ohiohistory.org or 614.361.5613 if you do not see

the $10 member rate after using the code, or run into any issues when registering.

Register: Click here to register

Registration deadline: September 20, 2024