Texas Levels of Preservation

I applied the NDSA levels of preservation framework at the state level to observe and magnify Texas institutions' digital preservation efforts and inspire them to work towards shared goals. To do so, I conducted interviews with 15 Texas Digital Library member institutions managing digital material. Beyond the five accepted functional areas of Storage, Integrity, Security, Metadata and File Formats, I followed Hull University Archives example and included the two extra areas that have been proposed, Access (proposed by the Library of the University of California) and Physical Formats (by the United States Geological Survey). My poster illustrates where Texas institutions fall in the four level framework which I intend to use to guide collaborative efforts in Texas and to revisit annually.