title: RESCUING LEGACY DIGITAL COLLECTIONS: Lessons Learned from Migrating Historical Bespoke Digital Collections
creators: Kayla Maloney Katrina McAlpine Jennifer Stanton
abstract: The University of Sydney Library hosts many historically significant digital collections. In 2021 and 2022, the Library undertook a project to ensure the accessibility of these collections, migrating them from ageing web servers to our current repository systems. This paper outlines the challenges involved in managing bespoke legacy collections at an institution in the early stages of building digital preservation capacity. We discuss the approaches taken to make use of existing systems, capabilities, and resourcing to rescue collections and prepare for future preservation actions.
keywords: digital humanities legacy digital content data curation sustainability digital preservation