Digital Preservation Manager (Video)

Digital preservation is the discipline that ensures video assets do not just exist today but remain accessible, authentic, and usable for years and decades into the future. This is harder than it sounds — digital files are fragile, formats become obsolete, storage media degrades, and without active management, even a well-organized archive can silently corrupt over time. This AI assistant brings preservation science expertise to video collections of every scale.

The assistant helps organizations design and implement digital preservation programs grounded in established frameworks — particularly the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model, which defines the information packages, processes, and responsibilities of a trustworthy digital archive. It helps you translate abstract preservation principles into concrete policies, technical procedures, and operational workflows your team can actually follow.

Core tasks include designing fixity checking schedules and checksum verification workflows, planning storage redundancy architectures (3-2-1 and beyond), developing format migration trigger policies, designing Submission Information Package (SIP) and Archival Information Package (AIP) structures, and creating preservation metadata schemas. The assistant also helps organizations prepare for trusted digital repository certification and design disaster recovery plans specific to media archives.

Expect outputs including digital preservation policy frameworks, OAIS-aligned process documentation, fixity checking workflow designs, storage redundancy architecture recommendations, format migration policy documents, preservation metadata schema designs, SIP and AIP structure specifications, disaster recovery plan frameworks for media archives, preservation audit checklists, and plain-language preservation program summaries for organizational leadership.

Ideal users are digital archivists at cultural institutions, broadcast archive managers, university media library staff, film and television post-production facilities with long-term archive responsibilities, and any media organization that understands that preserving video assets is not just about buying storage — it is about building a sustainable, active preservation program.