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About the MDPN

The Michigan Digital Preservation Network is a member-centered, collaborative organization dedicated to preserving Michigan’s digital cultural memory materials and leveraging shared resources to make digital preservation accessible to all institutions.

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Our Mission

The Michigan Digital Preservation Network protects the state’s digital cultural memory through a cooperative distributed digital preservation model and fosters a community of practitioners from collecting institutions across the state.

Our Vision

The Michigan Digital Preservation Network strives to provide an accessible and reliable “gold standard” for digital preservation technology to collecting organizations across the state and cultivate a vibrant and knowledgeable community of diverse stakeholders engaged in advancing digital preservation practice and discussion throughout Michigan.

Become an MDPN member today to take advantage of our benefits:

  • Secure preservation of digital content across multiple, geographically distributed sites
  • Retrieval of the Member’s content in case of a local disaster
  • One-on-one assistance with software installation, documentation of workflows, and technical support
  • Preservation readiness supportfor assessment and benchmarking, digital preservation policy writing, and appraisal and selection guidance.
  • On-demand reports about the Member’s submitted content and about the overall Network
  • Service opportunities within MDPN Committees, Interest Groups, and Affinity Groups
  • Weekly Office Hours and other opportunities to ask questions in an open and non-judgmental environment.
  • Opportunities to  collaborate with and learn from experienced digital preservation administrators, librarians, technologists, and others at Member Institutions across the state
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The MDPN is hosted by MCLS.

 

Support for the MDPN is provided in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library of Michigan.

 

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