This is a guest post from Elizabeth England, National Digital Stewardship Resident, and Eric Hanson, Digital Content Metadata Specialist, at Johns Hopkins University.
Elizabeth: In my National Digital Stewardship Residency at Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries, I am responsible for a digital preservation project addressing a large backlog (about 50 terabytes) of photographs documenting the university’s born-digital visual history. Since 2004, the campus photography unit, Homewood Photography, has used an exclusively digital workflow and the photographs have been stored on optical media. Before I arrived, the Ferdinand Hamburger University Archives had already taken physical custody of thousands of these DVDs, but needed someone who could be devoted to processing this large-scale collection.