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Digital Disaster Planning: Get the Picture Before Losing the Picture

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The following is a guest post by Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellow.

Frequency of occurring? Rare. Impact of occurring? Huge. I’m talking about digital disasters.

Zine Symposium - Russell Square London 2006, by szczel, on Flickr
Zine Symposium - Russell Square London 2006, by szczel, on Flickr

Stewards of digital content, like stewards of analog content, must plan for catastrophe in advance in order to minimize loss and recover quickly. True, digital disasters may occur infrequently. But at the scale that institutions