Personal Digital Archiving

Digital asset management (DAM) is a stewardship plan that mitigates the risk of loss by providing a strategy to curate and preserve digital assets. Large-scale DAM applications, like Amazon S3, incorporate a workflow for organizing, storing and retrieving digital materials in which databases interact with multiple storage systems to monitor and transform digital data.

On a personal scale, DAM workflows are hands-on, requiring regular maintenance and quality control.

Personal digital archiving encompasses six major strategies that are covered in the DMIA guide:

1. Scheduled format transformation.

2. Scheduled storage migration.

3. Metadata (documentation).

4. Scheduled fixity checks.

5. Redundancy.

6. Geographic dispersal.