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Orking With Producers: Ntroduction

This chapter discusses working with producers of digital heritage materials to help with preservation efforts. It aims to provide guidance on standards and practices that can either help or hinder preservation. Program managers should look for ways to positively influence producers as early as possible in the digital lifecycle, which often requires a willingness to work with producers. Digital materials are often created without consideration of long-term availability, so intervention is needed to help materials be produced in a way that minimizes costs and barriers to preservation. However, seeking to work with producers can be challenging as producers may have different goals and constraints than preservation programs.

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Orking With Producers: Ntroduction

This chapter discusses working with producers of digital heritage materials to help with preservation efforts. It aims to provide guidance on standards and practices that can either help or hinder preservation. Program managers should look for ways to positively influence producers as early as possible in the digital lifecycle, which often requires a willingness to work with producers. Digital materials are often created without consideration of long-term availability, so intervention is needed to help materials be produced in a way that minimizes costs and barriers to preservation. However, seeking to work with producers can be challenging as producers may have different goals and constraints than preservation programs.

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Chapter 13.

Working with producers

INTRODUCTION
13.1 Aims

This chapter aims to encourage programme managers to consider ways of working with the
producers of digital heritage, and to provide some guidance on practices and standards that
will make the preservation task easier.

13.2 In a nutshell
Digital heritage is often created without consideration of ongoing use and accessibility.
However, there are definitely standards and practices that producers can use that either help or
hinder preservation. Programme managers need to look for ways of exerting a positive
influence from as early in the digital heritage life cycle as possible. This often requires a
willingness to work with producers.

13.3 Terminology
Producers has been used in this chapter to refer to all those involved in design, authoring,
creation and dissemination of digital materials before they enter a preservation programme.
Digitisation programmes fit very squarely in the category of producers whose digital output
must be managed for ongoing accessibility by preservation programmes.

KEY MANAGEMENT ISSUES


13.4 The prehistory of digital heritage
Digital materials are created by producers who are not necessarily concerned with long-term
availability: creation of digital heritage may not be part of their intention. Even those hoping
to make something of enduring value may not have the knowledge or the means to do so, or
be constrained by other impediments in their working environment.

Without some kind of intervention, it is unlikely that digital heritage materials will
automatically be made in ways that will minimise costs and remove barriers to preservation.
Many practices in fact make preservation much harder.

13.5 Difficulties in dealing with producers


In seeking to work with producers to overcome preservation barriers, programmes are like to
encounter challenges:
In many cases, the producer is a layered concept, made up of a number of agents
performing quite different functions, such as software developers, creators (often

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