About POWRR

Since its inception in 2012, the Preserving digital Objects With Restricted Resources (Digital POWRR) Project has endeavored to make digital preservation more accessible to a wider range of cultural heritage professionals.

In 2022, Digital POWRR was awarded funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to put on five 2.5 day professional training institutes. Please see this page for the official announcement, and details about upcoming events.

Thanks to generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Digital POWRR is also currently operating a peer assessment program, which provides training and support for individuals looking to learn how to utilize digital preservation assessment-based work into their digital stewardship practices. Please see this page for information on the program.

Current funding for the Digital POWRR Project comes from major grants from both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Phase one, three and four sponsor

Phase two and five sponsor

Last Modified: 10/1/2024

Data Accessioner 1.2 Released!

The Digital POWRR Project is pleased to announce the latest release of Data Accessioner 1.2. Data Accessioner is an open source application, free for anyone to use or extend, providing a simple Java Swing GUI which allows archivists and digital preservationists to safely migrate data off external media and onto a file server for basic …

Welcome to our Phase 2 Peer Assessment Program Cohorts!

Selection for the second phase of the POWRR Peer Assessment Program has concluded, and we’re pleased to announce the participants in our three new cohorts. Participants in the program are selected through a competitive application process, and are drawn from a mix of institutional types from across the United States.

The team received well over …

Welcome to our first three cohorts!

Selection for the inaugural phase of the POWRR Peer Assessment Program has concluded, and we are extremely excited to announce the participants in our first three cohorts! Participants are drawn from a mix of institutional types from across the United States.

Choosing participants was extremely difficult, as we received a large number of impressive applications …

Announcing the POWRR Peer Assessment Program

The “Digital POWRR Peer Assessment Program: Empowering Collective Evaluation and Action” project was recently featured on the ASU News website as well as ASU’s Library Channel. Thank you to Britt Lewis, ASU Library Communications Specialist, for the opportunity to talk about this new phase of work for Digital POWRR!