Medalta Museum Digital Asset Retention and Disposition Schedule

The following document is a copy of Medalta Museum’s Digital Asset Retention and Disposition Schedule, a working document which was current at the time of publication, February 2016, and which has been modified for web accessibility. It is published as part of CHIN’s case study of digital preservation work at Medalta Museum and is one of many digital preservation resources available in CHIN’s Digital Preservation Toolkit

Digital Asset GroupNumber of years to retain

Group 1 – Access DB - soon to be PastPerfect

Indefinitely

Group 2 – Medalta newsletters

Indefinitely

Group 3 – Other Medalta publications

Indefinitely

Group 4 – Word documents of collections

Indefinitely

Group 5 – Archaeology collection: Talva

Indefinitely

Group 6 – Interviews

Indefinitely

Group 7 – Future 3D scanning 

Indefinitely

Group 8 – Future digitization (photographing) of museum holdings

Indefinitely

Group 9 – Historical corporate documents

Indefinitely

Group 10 – Medalta Museum operational documents, including retail data

Minimum of 7 Years

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