Digital Preservation Policy Framework: A Case Study

The Ohio State University Libraries created an organizational policy for digital preservation, shared here to address the policy development process and its importance to an organization, and to provide an outline of repeatable best practices. By developing and adopting a policy, set of best practices, and standards, a university or library does not need to wait for an out-of-the-box solution, instead taking incremental steps to provide a better digital preservation environment. A successfully crafted and adopted digital preservation policy is a major accomplishment — it is an institution/organization putting a stake in the ground or drawing a line in the sand to say, "Digital preservation is important to us."What Is Digital Preservation? -- Why Is Policy Important? A Literature Review -- How Did OSUL Get Here? Journey toward a Digital Preservation Policy -- What Do You Plan to Do? Proposing a Policy Development Process -- What Is the Plan? The Policy Development Process -- Authority and Buy-in: The Policy Approval Process -- Other Ways to Do It and Lessons Learned -- ConclusionPublisher allows immediate open acces