Vermont Folklife Center: Digital Preservation Storage Planning

Abstract

In spring 2017 AVPreserve (AVP) consultant Bertram Lyons was supported by the AFS Consultancy and Professional Development Program to work with the Vermont Folklife Center (VFC). The goals of the NEA-funded project focused on an assessment of VFC’s digital preservation procedures and hardware, and the formulation of recommendations for improving their efforts and upgrading storage systems. On April 10–11, 2017 Lyons traveled to Middlebury and met with Kolovos for the on-site portion of the consultancy. During this visit Lyons gathered data to assist VFC with both the NEA-funded aspects of his work and the AFS-supported project. Lyons conducted additional work off site over the course of the next month.