The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Open Discussion of Digital Preservation Approaches and Challenges

This Roundtable Discussion will bring together those responsible for digital preservation to talk about the pros and cons of their approach and to get ideas and advice on digital preservation approaches from their peers. This will provide a candid space for digital preservation practitioners to discuss vendor relationships, tools that have been helpful, frustrating setbacks, system workarounds they have found, mistakes they have made that others could learn from, and issues they are having including how shrinking budgets and staffing have affected their digital preservation program. Discussion will be guided but include space for new topics and attendees will have the opportunity to seek out advice on digital preservation issues they may be having.