Introducing “Maintenance Culture: Sustaining Digital Creative Works”

 

We’re excited to announce the start of Myriad’s NEH-funded project to develop digital preservation training and resources, focused on preserving complex born-digital collections at small institutions.

 

Follow the project on Myriad’s website and at #MaintenanceCulture on social media. Sign up for Myriad’s newsletter for project updates and announcements including:

• Field Guide and Workbook for preserving digital creative works
• Zine about digital preservation for digital artists and creators
• White paper mapping past and current projects addressing the preservation of complex, born-digital works, and recommending strategies for sustainability
• 6 free digital preservation workshops and skill share events, in New Orleans, Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, and Baltimore, focused on smaller institutions and independent creators. If you live near any of these cities, sign up to get involved in your local community

 

Maintenance Culture will address challenges small institutions face in preserving and sustaining access to complex born-digital creative works such as digital art, podcasts, virtual publications, and other at-risk formats.

Stakeholders, including creators and culture workers, will collaborate to build on existing resources and develop free training and materials to help memory institutions and creators ensure the longevity of their digital works.

The project is funded by a Preservation Education and Training grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Myriad is a national nonprofit consulting firm that specializes in collections preservation and planning for small- to mid-sized cultural organizations. From digitization project planning to organizational strategy and facilitation, it’s our mission to bring you practical plans and solutions to help you transform the way you share, manage and preserve your collection and the stories it represents.

 

About the National Endowment for the Humanities: Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at: www.neh.gov.

 

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Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this message do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

 

 

Annie Peterson

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Project Director

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