Wikipedia:WikiProject Digital Preservation

WikiProject Digital Preservation

Userbox	{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Digital Preservation/Userbox}}

Welcome to WikiProject Digital Preservation. This project was formed to improve Wikipedia's coverage of digital preservation and the organization of information and articles on this topic. It was initiated by members of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), but participation by digital preservation practitioners everywhere is encouraged. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the open tasks below.

Scope

The topics included under the scope of this project include:

• Digital preservation terms, concepts, theories, strategies and history
• Standards, best practices and common methods for:
  • Packaging, transferring or modeling digital content
  • Preserving the usability of digital content long-term
  • Encoding and wrapping digital content using file formats, compression schemes, etc.
  • Describing digital content using metadata
• Preservation repository architecture, operations and policies
• Certifying the trustworthiness of preservation repositories
• Related large-scale initiatives

Open tasks

There are many things to do here. The following is a start of a list. Here are some specific things needed:

• Improve the digital preservation article (this article acts as a portal to the articles tracked by this project)
• Assess the quality of the unassessed pages

Here are some more general things needed:

• Spread the word about this project
• Identify or create missing articles
• Add your expert knowledge to improve an article
• Expand a stub
• Add or improve references in an article
• Help to resolve a dispute
• Ask or answer a question
• Assess an article's quality

Completed tasks:

• DONE Create quality pages for the bot
• DONE Create a banner for this project
• DONE Create or select an image for the project.

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here if you'd like to participate. You can add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Digital Preservation/Userbox}} to your user page to show that you are a member of this project.

1. A goethals (talk · contribs)
2. Davissp (talk · contribs)
3. Pcaplan (talk · contribs)
4. Edsu (talk · contribs)
5. LoriLee (talk · contribs)
6. Nullhandle (talk · contribs)
7. David Underdown (talk · contribs) (Involved with PRONOM and other digital preservation activities at The National Archives (UK) 15:49, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
8. AndrewNJackson (talk · contribs) (Particularly interested in aligning/interlinking Wikipedia with other relevant resources, e.g. PRONOM) 09:44, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
9. Sjhnumber1 (talk · contribs) (Sharing knowledge recently gained at DPTP from ULCC) 05:07, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Review and assessment

Assessment of Digital Preservation Articles

Articles are assessed using the system and definitions developed as part of Wikipedia 1.0. This project rates articles by quality but not by importance. This scale is useful for tracking the progress of articles from the low end of unassessed or stubs through the high end of featured articles.

Articles are assessed by placing or updating a quality assessment on the talk page of an article. Anyone can rate an article. The only exceptions are the Good Article and Featured Article quality grades. These should only be added to articles which have been through the standard Wikipedia Good Article Nomination and Featured Article Candidacy procedures.

Statistics

Digital Preservation pages by quality
Quality
	Total
B	4
C	24
Start	59
Stub	9
List	4
Category	49
Project	4
Template	2
NA	4
Assessed	159
Total	159
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 457			Ω = 4.76

Categories

This is a holding spot for categorizing articles in different ways (thematically or by quality or both).

Templates

• Project banner - for use when assessing the quality of articles
• Project Userbox - for project members to include on their user pages to indicate participation in this project
• File format Infobox - for use on all file format articles. See for example Broadcast_Wave_Format.

Resources

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Libraries
• WikiProject GLAM