Building Digital Resilience: Foundations of Digital Preservation Practice

This session introduces digital preservation as a set of practical strategies for building resilience in digital collections over time. The workshop will explore core concepts in digital preservation, common risks affecting digital content, and actionable strategies for maintaining file integrity and usability. Through examples and discussion, participants will learn how practitioners assess risk, make preservation decisions, and respond to emerging challenges and technologies shaping digital preservation work today.

 Learning Outcomes

  • Learn what digital preservation is and why it is important

  • Explore emerging digital preservation technologies and challenges

  • Understand the complexity of digital objects and the unique risks inherent in preserving them

  • Analyze practical approaches to mitigating these risks

Your Instructor

Grete Graf

Digital Preservation Librarian, Yale University

Grete Graf is a Digital Preservation Librarian at Yale Library, where she helps manage the library’s digital preservation system and collaborates with stakeholders across Yale’s libraries, archives, and museums to ensure the long-term preservation of their digital assets. Grete’s professional interests include digital preservation, data visualization, and web archiving. She is a member of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, the New England Archivists and the U.S. Northeast Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Grete has co-authored an article on automating digital preservation packaging and ingest processes in the Journal of Digital Media Management. She earned her MS in Library and Information Science with a specialization in data curation from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.