Preservation Video Rodeo Roundup, pt. 3 (Digital Preservation)

Welcome to part three of our Preservation Week video roundup. Today, some videos on preserving digital content. If you have favorite videos on this topic, please let us know about them in the comments section.

Team Digital Preservation always brings humor to the complicated issues of digital preservation. Tune in for their wacky, yet insightful, adventures.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGFOZLecjTc

Abby Smith Rumsey recently gave a lecture at Yale University titled “But Storage is Cheap…Digital Preservation in the Age of Abundance.” Well worth the time to view, and thanks to Yale for posting their Preservation Lecture Series videos online.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk9ccNP9xTk

The Library of Congress presents basic issues of preserving digital content in this short video. Great for the non-preservation professional audience.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEmmeFFafUs&feature=relmfu

The Library of Congress talks to teens about longevity of digital media. We all need to do more to reach out to youth to get them interested now. Have you had success with this dear reader?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fhu7s0AfmM

Just for fun: What would the help desk have looked like back when books were the new technology?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ