Digital Preservation Essentials is part of the series Trends in Archives Practice. It includes two modules by Erin O'Meara and Kate Stratton:

Module 12: Preserving Digital Objects
Explores concepts of digital preservation in the archival context, focusing on standards and metadata required to make digital objects accessible and understandable over time.

Module 13: Digital Preservation Storage
Provides an introduction to digital storage best practices for long-term preservation, including terminology, hardware, and configurations.

As University of Illinois Preservation Librarian Kyle R. Rimkus notes in the introduction, "The successful archivist needs a grounding in the fundamental concepts of digital preservation, a command of its key terminology and practices, and an ability to build effective programs and practices. These modules provide an excellent point of entry."

Erin O’Meara is head of the Office of Digital Innovation and Stewardship at the University of Arizona Libraries. Her research interests include ethnographic approaches to data management and recordkeeping, digital preservation, and archives leadership. She has previously worked at Gates Archive, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Oregon. O’Meara received her master of archival studies from the University
of British Columbia in 2004. While at UBC, she conducted research for the InterPARES 2 Project pertaining to archaeological records managed
in Geographic Information Systems.

Kate Stratton is the collection development archivist at Gates Archive in Seattle, Washington, where she oversees donor relations and acquisitions.
Prior to joining Gates Archive in 2013, Stratton worked at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. She
earned a master of science in library science from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010.

INTRODUCTION
Digital Preservation:
A Challenge for Our Time • 1
Kyle R. Rimkus

MODULE 12
PRESERVING DIGITAL OBJECTS • 5
Erin O’Meara and Kate Stratton

MODULE 13
DIGITAL PRESERVATION STORAGE • 75
Erin O’Meara and Kate Stratton