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Introduction

During our activities in the SCAPE project concerning the creation of the Policy Framework, we collected several real life policies.  Some other sources, like the report in the Signal by M. Sheldon http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/08/analysis-of-current-digital-preservation-policies-archives-libraries-and-museums/  were also of help in creating this overview of published preservation policies.

The policies are showed in alphabetical order and divided by

  • Libraries
  • Archives
  • Data Centers
  • Miscellaneous

In practice policies are published under different headings and sometimes not all policies are also "preservation policies". Categorizing the policies to Libraries or for example Data Centers is not always as straightforward, so please look under the different headings.

Is your digital preservation policy not mentioned in this list and are you willing to share it with your colleagues, please send an email to [email protected] and we will add yours to this list.

Libraries

  • Bavarian State Library

Digital Preservation Policy  [in German] http://www.babs-muenchen.de/content/dokumente/2012-11-22_BSB_Preservation_Policy.pdf

  • British Library

Digital Preservation Strategy http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/collectioncare/digitalpreservation/strategy/BL_DigitalPreservationStrategy_2013-16-external.pdf 

  • Boston University Library

Digital Preservation Policy http://www.bu.edu/dioa/openbu/boston-university-libraries-digital-preservation-policy/

  • Cornell University Library

Cornell University Library Digital Preservation Policy Framework http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/11230

  • Dartmouth College Library

Digital Preservation Policy http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/digital/about/policies/preservation.html?mswitch-redir=classic

  • Deutsche National Bibliothek

Langzeitarchivierungs-Policy der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek [in German]  http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101-2013021901

  • German National Library of Economics [ZBW]

Preservation policy: guidelines for digital preservation at ZBW (2015http://zbw.eu/en/about-us/key-activities/digital-preservation/preservation-policy/*

  • Hathi Trust Digital Library

Digital Preservation Policy http://www.hathitrust.org/preservation

  • John Hopkins Sheridan Libraries

Digital Preservation Policy  http://old.library.jhu.edu/collections/institutionalrepository/irpreservationpolicy.html

  • National Library of Australia

Digital Preservation Policy 4th Edition http://www.nla.gov.au/policy-and-planning/digital-preservation-policy

  • National Library of Finland

Preservation Policy  http://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/attachments/5v5daJ8e3/5pzFQo6pJ/Files/CurrentFile/NLF_Preservation_Policy.pdf

  • Archives New Zealand  and National Library of New Zealand

Digital Preservation Strategy http://archives.govt.nz/sites/default/files/Digital_Preservation_Strategy.pdf

  • National Library of Scotland

Digital Preservation Policy (2014) http://www.nls.uk/media/1117184/2014-digital-preservation-policy.pdf

  • National Library of Wales

Digital Preservation Policy and Strategy http://www.llgc.org.uk/fileadmin/documents/pdf/2008_digipres.pdf

  • North Carolina State Library

North Carolina Digital Preservation Policy (april 2014)  http://digitalpreservation.ncdcr.gov/digital_preservation_policy_dcr.pdf _

  • Ohio State University Library

Digital Preservation Policy Framework: A Case Study: http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/digital-preservation-policy-framework-case-study 

  • Portico

Preservation Policies (2013) http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/about-us/portico-resource

  • Purdue University Research Repository

Digital Preservation Policy https://purr.purdue.edu/legal/digitalpreservation

Preservation Support Policy https://purr.purdue.edu/legal/preservation-support-policy

  • The Royal Library: The National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen University Library

Policy for long term preservation of digital materials at the Royal Library http://www.kb.dk/export/sites/kb_dk/da/kb/downloadfiler/DigitalPreservationPolicy-KB-DK-2014.pdf

Strategy for long term preservation of digital collection materials at the Royal Library: http://www.kb.dk/export/sites/kb_dk/da/kb/downloadfiler/PreservationStrategyDigitalMaterials-KB-DK-2014.pdf

  • State Library of Queensland

Digital Preservation Policy  http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/109550/SLQ_-_Digital_Preservation_Policy_v0.05_-_Oct_2008.pdf

  • Statsbiblioteket State and University Library, Denmark

Digital Preservation Strategy for State and University Library, Denmark, version 3.0  https://en.statsbiblioteket.dk/about-the-library/DigitalPreservationStrategy_v3.pdf

Digital Preservation Policy for State and University Library Denmark, version 3.0  https://en.statsbiblioteket.dk/about-the-library/DigitalPreservationPolicy_2014.pdf

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

IDEALS Digital Preservation Policy (2009) https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/2383/IDEALS_PreservationPolicy_Nov2009.pdf?sequence=4

  • The University of Manchester Library

Digital Preservation Strategy (2012) http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/strategy/_files2/Digital-Preservation-Strategy.pdf

  • *University of Massachusetts Amhurst Libraries*

Digital Preservation Policy http://www.library.umass.edu/assets/aboutus/attachments/University-of-Massachusetts-Amherst-Libraries-Digital-Preservation-Policy3-18-2011-templated.pdf

  • University of Minnesota

University Digital Conservancy Preservation Policy http://conservancy.umn.edu/pol-preservation.jsp

  • University of South Carolina Libraries

Digital Preservation Policy Framework http://library.sc.edu/digital/USC_Libraries_Digital_Preserva.pdf

  • University of Utah J. Willard Marriot Library

 Digital Preservation Policy (2012) http://www.lib.utah.edu/collections/digital/DigitalPreservationPolicy2012.docx

  • Wellcome Library

_Preservation Policy for Materials held in Collections http://wellcomelibrary.org/about-us/library-strategy-and-policy/preservation-policy/  

  • Yale University Library

Digital Preservation Policy (2007) http://www.library.yale.edu/iac/DPC/revpolicy2-19-07.pdf

Yale University Library’s Digital Preservation Policy Framework (2014) http://web.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/YUL%20Digital%20Preservation%20Policy%20Framework%20V1%200.pdf 

  • York University

Preservation Policy (2014) _https://digital.library.yorku.ca/tags/digital-preservation-policy

Archives

  • Archives New Zealand  and National Library of New Zealand

Digital Preservation Strategy http://archives.govt.nz/sites/default/files/Digital_Preservation_Strategy.pdf

  • Cheshire Archives (2010)

Digital Preservation Policy http://archives.cheshire.gov.uk/record_care/digital_preservation/digital_preservation_policy.aspx

  • Danish National Archives

Digital Preservation Policies  http://www.sa.dk/media%284826,1033%29/Strategy_for_archiving_digital_records.pdf (English version) or  http://www.sa.dk/media%284658,1030%29/Statens_Arkivers_strategi_for_arkivering_af_digitalt_skabte_arkivalier.pdf (Danish version)

  • Hampshire Archives at Hampshire Record Office (2010)

Digital Preservation Policy http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives/hro-policies/hro-digital-preservation-policy.htm

  • London Metropolitan Archives

Interim Digital Preservation Policy (2010) http://217.154.230.218/NR/rdonlyres/6466F6FA-2F04-4E3E-8D8D-9158FD303425/0/DigitalPreservationPolicyJun2010.pdf

  • National Archives of Australia

Digital Preservation Policy (2011) http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/organisation/accountability/operations-and-preservation/digital-preservation-policy.aspx

  • National Archives of Estonia

Preservation Policy (2007) http://www.ra.ee/public/Sailitamine/preservation_policy_en.pdf

  • National Archives of the Netherlands

Preservation Policy (2015) http://www.nationaalarchief.nl/sites/default/files/docs/preservation_policy_nationaal_archief_1_1.pdf (in Dutch)

  • National Records of Scotland

Digital Preservation Strategy (2014) _http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files/record-keeping/nrs-digital-preservation-strategy.pdf  

  • North Carolina State Archive

North Carolina Digital Preservation Policy (april 2014)  http://digitalpreservation.ncdcr.gov/digital_preservation_policy_dcr.pdf _

  • Parliamentary Archives

A digital preservation policy for Parliament (2009) http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/digitalpreservationpolicy1.0.pdf

  • Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Digital Preservation Strategy (2013) http://www.proni.gov.uk/digital_preservation_strategy.pdf

  • Swiss Federal Archive

Digital Archiving policy (2009) http://www.bar.admin.ch/themen/00876/index.html?lang=en&download=NHzLpZeg7t,lnp6I0NTU042l2Z6ln1ad1IZn4Z2qZpnO2Yuq2Z6gpJCDdYB,fmym162epYbg2c_JjKbNoKSn6A--

  • The National Archives (UK)

Preservation Policy (2009) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/tna-corporate-preservation-policy-2009-website-version.pdf

  • West Yorkshire Archive Services

Digital Archives Policy (2007) http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/documents/archives/WYAS%20Digital%20Archives%20Policy.pdf

Data Centers

  • Digital Repository of Ireland

DRI Preservation Policy (2018) https://repository.dri.ie/catalog/zw13bm274

  • Florida Digital Archive

FDA Policy and Procedures (2011) https://fclaweb.fcla.edu/uploads/FDAPolicyGuideversion3.0.pdf 

  • GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Digital Preservation Policy (2014http://www.gesis.org/fileadmin/upload/institut/wiss_arbeitsbereiche/datenarchiv_analyse/Digital_Preservation_Policy.pdf (in German) and http://www.gesis.org/fileadmin/upload/institut/wiss_arbeitsbereiche/datenarchiv_analyse/DAS_Preservation_Policy_eng.pdf (in English)

  • CenterData, Tilburg,  The Netherlands

Preservation and Dissemination Policy of the LISS Data Archive  (2013) http://www.lissdata.nl/assets/uploaded/reservation%20and%20Dissemination%20Policy%20of%20the%20LISS%20Data%20Archive_1_0.pdf

  • DANS (Data Archive and Networked Services), the Netherlands

Preservation Policy (2014) http://dans.knaw.nl/sites/default/files/file/EASY/20140220%20Preservation%20Policy%20v1_0.pdf

  • University of Michigan

ICPSR Digital Preservation Policy Framework http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/datamanagement/preservation/policies/dpp-framework.html

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science

Digital Preservation Policies (2011) http://www.irss.unc.edu/odum/contentSubpage.jsp?nodeid=629

  • UK Data Service

Preservation Policy (2012) http://data-archive.ac.uk/media/54776/ukda062-dps-preservationpolicy.pdf 

Miscellaneous

  • Brazilian Congress (Chamber of Deputies), Brazil

Digital Preservation Policy (2012, in Portugese)

http://www2.camara.leg.br/legin/int/atomes/2012/atodamesa-48-16-julho-2012-773828-publicacaooriginal-137097-cd.html

Explanation (in English)  how this policy was created can be found athttp://bd.camara.gov.br/bd/bitstream/handle/bdcamara/13557/digital_preservation_bode.pdf?sequence=1 

  • Irish Film Institute

Digital Preservation and Access Strategy (2015) http://ifi.ie/2015/06/digital-preservation-and-access-strategy/

  • National Museum Australia

 Digital Preservation and digitisation policy (2012) http://www.nma.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/1453/POL-C-028_Digital_preservation_and_digitisation-2.2_public.pdf

  • Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

(de Jong, A) Digital Preservation Sound and Vision: Policy, Standards and Procedures (2016) http://publications.beeldengeluid.nl/pub/388/ (English) and http://publications.beeldengeluid.nl/pub/387/ (Dutch) 

  • Public Governance Flanders (Belgium)

Against digital Alzheimer's:Policy on Digital Preservation (2013) http://www.governance-flanders.be/sites/default/files/Against_Digital_Alzheimers_Flemish_Government.pdf

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