Material presence of digital objects

• Digital content occupies space in the physical world
• Digital content lives somewhere
• Digital content is maintained by someone

Recovery Procedure

• Identify 
• Notify
• Assess
• Salvage
• Purchase
• Rebuild

Biggest Challenge

• It's our stuff, but it's not our stuff
• Coordination

Suite of Recovery Plans

Credit: Heidi Uphoff: 

http://hauphoff.com/home/assets/Uphoff_GalvinPresentation.pdf

• Element for each location
  • DCL
  • Main library 416b (server room)
  • Advanced Computation 
  • Amazon Glacier