General overviews:

Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, maintained by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.--most materials date to 2000 or later; this is the current (2012) version.http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb.htm

Materials pertaining to process in the class: Reflective practice

The links below point to materials on reflective/critical journaling as an assistance in helping you learn through surfacing what you are thinking, what is going on, etc., so you can come to grips with it. Each was prepared for a specific context, but they provide ideas for how to get started. In general, think narrative rather than checklist, though checklists can help you consider things to write about.

http://www.audiencedialogue.net/journal.html

David Boud, "Using Journal Writing to enhance reflective practice: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ace.16/pdf

Project-oriented resources for 2018 and past years (note: if you find project-specific useful resources, please let me know so they can be included here):

Videogame Preservation

Note that videogames as composite objects will also draw on many other preservation processes.

Jerome McDonough et al., Preserving Virtual Worlds Final Report (2010). Find the PDF at: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/17097

Email

The Future of Email Archives, CLIR: https://www.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/08/CLIR-pub175.pdf

Christopher Prom, Preserving Email, DPC Technology Report 11-01 (2011), Find the PDF at: http://dx.doi.org/10.7207/twr11-01 This document also contains a generous bibliography.

This is the 2003 document from the Dutch national archives about preserving email: From Digital Volatility to Digital Permanence: Preserving Email: volatility-permanence-email-en

Websites

The Digital Curation Center's latest report on the state of the art in Web Archiving is here: http://dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/reports/sarwa-v1.1.pdf

The International Internet Preservation Consortium includes all the major players in this space and is beginning to move forward with interesting models for Internet preservation: http://www.netpreserve.org/

The latest version of the Web Curator tool, which incorporates parts of Heretrix and Wayback but adds a more user-friendly GUI and the ability to set harvesting limits, is available here: http://webcurator.sourceforge.net/ and additional information (history, experience, etc) can be found by searching by its name.

Jinfang Niu, "An Overview of Web Archiving," D-Lib Magazine 18, 3/4 (March/April 2012). This is a useful and relatively recent lit review: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march12/niu/03niu1.html.

SAA Archiving

Here is the LoC Twitter white paper on Twitter (which says access is an unsolved problem--interesting to see why, though): https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/files/2017/12/2017dec_twitter_white-paper.pdf

Digital Archaeology Lab history and ideas

Frankenstein II Project Report on pacer at: https://ford.ischool.utexas.edu:8443/xmlui/handle/2081/23117

Ricky Erway, "Swatting the Long Tail of Digital Media: A Call for Collaboration," OCLC (2012): http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2012/2012-08.pdf

Porter Olsen, "Digital Curation Workstation" (2012): http://mith.umd.edu/digital-curation-workstation/

Doug Reside, "Digital Archaeology: Recovering your Digital History" (2012): http://www.nypl.org/blog/2012/07/23/digital-archaeology-recovering-your-digital-history

Most recent DSpace database schema (1.7.0): http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2012/spring/INF392K/db-schema1.7.0.png

Collaborative Electronic Records Project: Evaluation of Tools: http://siarchives.si.edu/cerp/RAC_SIA_CERP_tools_V2.pdf

Staff Papers, National Library of Australia. https://www.nla.gov.au/our-publications/staff-papers

Batch processes

National Library of New Zealand, Metadata Extraction Tool User Guide 3.5: http://meta-extractor.sourceforge.net/meta-extractor-user-guide-v3.pdf

"Document Metadata Extraction," a list of resources: http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Document_Metadata_Extraction

General Resources:

Many significant resources for digital preservation exist online and should be actively used.

NDIIPP Partner Tools and Services contained descriptions of available products of NDIIPP-funded projects; alas many of them have, after the money ran out, been abandoned, but you can see them thanks to the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20120316234719/http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/tools/index.html

The Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) site (http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/), maintained by the National Library of Australia (although discontinued in summer 2010, the site is still maintained and is rich in resources), is indispensable and its cooperative notion of "Safekeeping" is worth study in itself.

The British National Archives PRONOM file-format registry site is available at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/ It includes a collection of useful tools from all over the planet for extracting metadata, detecting file formats, etc.

Chris Lacinak, "A Primer on Codecs for Moving Image and Sound Archives," https://www.avpreserve.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/AVPS_Codec_Primer.pdf

You may also want to check the contents of several online publications regularly, as they tend to carry useful articles on developments in digital preservation (and they also should be venues in which you aspire to publish)--many of these have been discontinued but have been archived.

D-Lib: http://www.dlib.org [Stopped July 2017, but preserved from 1995-2017]

Journal of Digital Information (JoDI): http://journals.tdl.org/jodi [Stopped 2012]

RLG DigiNews: moved in the OCLC merger, but if you have a citation to track down or want to browse, see: http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/newsletters/diginews.htm [Stopped 2007 but maintained by OCLC]

First Monday: http://www.firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/613

Richard Pearce-Moses, A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology, is on the SAA website: http://www.archivists.org/glossary/index.asp

Resources for specific problems or formats:

Digital Video

Dave Rice, Sustaining Consistent Video Presentation (Tate UK, 18 March 2015): http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/sustaining-consistent-video-presentation

Digital Audio

Library of Congress information formats includes digital audio: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/intro/intro.shtml

National Archives information on audio file formats (such as it is): http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/initiatives/dav-faq.html

And a pretty encyclopedic entry from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format

David Rosenthal, Thomas Lipkis, Thomas Robertson, Seth Morabito, "Transparent Format Migration of Preserved Web Content," D-Lib Magazine, January 2005. This article focuses on a method used in the LOCKSS system. Available at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/rosenthal/01rosenthal.html

Faculty Papers

SHERPA site listing the self-archiving policies of many journal publishers: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

Nancy Foster and Susan Gibbons, "Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories," D-Lib Magazine, January 2005. Available at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/foster/01foster.html

Important Digital Preservation Projects

Reagan Moore et al., "Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives--Part 1," D-Lib Magazine ( March 2000): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march00/moore/03moore-pt1.html and "--Part 2," D-Lib Magazine, (April 2000): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april00/moore/04moore-pt2.html

William E. Underwood, "Analysis of Presidential Electronic Records: Final Report," available at: http://perpos.gtri.gatech.edu/perpos/Final_Report.pdf This is a notable example of a very visible digital archaeology project (carried out for NARA).