Digital Preservation Policy
DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICY
Last updated October 21, 2025
1. PURPOSE
This Digital Preservation Policy describes how Jono Borden, through his official website, Jono Borden: Picture of a Ritualist, located online at https://jonoborden.com, manages and preserves digital content to support its long-term accessibility, integrity, and usability.
The website serves as Jono Borden’s online home for his creative and business activities—a living archive of current and past projects spanning book publishing, music, cinema, and related artistic and professional endeavours. This policy establishes a practical framework for responsible digital stewardship while acknowledging the evolving nature of creative practice and technology; this policy gestures toward continuity without promising immortality.
2. SCOPE
This policy applies to digital materials created, maintained, or published by Jono Borden through his affiliated legal entities, including, in order:
Jono Borden Publishers, Inc.
Jono Borden Records, Inc.
Ritualistic Pictures, Inc.
Aquilifer the Urban Hermit Spiritual Services, Inc.
Poeta Non Grata Music, Inc.
These entities collectively reflect Jono Borden’s activities as a poet, novelist, lyricist, screenwriter, and filmmaker, as well as his work in book publishing, recorded music, film production, occult or spiritual services, and music publishing.
This policy encompasses digital content hosted on https://jonoborden.com, as well as related digital assets maintained in supporting storage systems or repositories.
3. PRESERVATION PRINCIPLES
Digital preservation activities are guided by the following principles:
3.1 Accessibility
Reasonable efforts will be made to ensure that preserved digital materials remain accessible and usable over time, despite changes in technology.
3.2 Authenticity and Integrity
Preserved materials should accurately reflect the original work and creative intent. Actions that alter format or structure (such as migration) will seek to preserve meaning, function, and context.
3.3 Security
Digital materials will be protected against loss, corruption, unauthorized access, and accidental deletion through appropriate technical and administrative safeguards.
3.4 Sustainability
Preservation decisions will balance long-term cultural, creative, and commercial value with available resources, technical feasibility, and ongoing maintenance requirements.
4. CATEGORIES OF COMMITMENT
In recognition that digital preservation is an ongoing and resource-dependent endeavor, different levels of preservation commitment are assigned to distinct categories of digital materials associated with his official website.
4.1 Born-Digital Creative Works
This category includes original digital works created by Jono Borden and published on or through https://jonoborden.com, including literary works, poetry, musical compositions and recordings, screenplays, films, audiovisual projects, visual art, and project documentation.
A strong and sustained effort will be made to preserve these materials for the long term. Preservation strategies may include:
Maintaining multiple secure and redundant backups
Periodic review and migration of file formats to mitigate obsolescence
Retention of master files or highest-quality source materials where available
Documentation of significant versions, releases, or revisions
These materials constitute the core creative output represented on the site and are treated as primary preservation priorities.
4.2 Digitized Works with Physical or Analogue Originals
This category includes digital representations of works that also exist in physical or analogue form, such as scanned manuscripts, photographed artwork, digitized recordings, or transferred film and video materials.
In most cases, the physical or analogue version is considered the ultimate preservation copy. Digital versions are preserved primarily to support access and reference, with efforts generally limited to:
Local and redundant backups
Use of stable, widely supported file formats
The ability to re-digitize if necessary
Where analogue originals are fragile, obsolete, or at significant risk of loss—particularly in the case of audiovisual media—the digitized versions may be treated as preservation masters and maintained with the same level of care as born-digital works.
4.3 Published and Commercially Distributed Works
This category includes works that are formally published, licensed, or distributed through third-party platforms, such as books released by publishers, music distributed via streaming services, or films distributed commercially.
While creator-owned source files or reference copies may be retained when legally permitted, no guarantee is made that externally hosted or commercially distributed versions will be preserved by his official website. Preservation efforts focus instead on:
Retaining creator-owned production or master files when possible
Preserving descriptive, contextual, and bibliographic information
Documenting the existence, release history, and versions of the work
4.4 Web-Native, Iterative, and Ephemeral Content
This category includes content created specifically for the website that may evolve over time or be intentionally temporary, such as blog posts, project pages, drafts, announcements, experimental works, and time-bound materials.
Reasonable efforts will be made to preserve representative versions of this content; however:
Not all revisions may be retained
Content may be updated, reorganized, consolidated, or removed
Some materials may exist only for the duration of a particular project or phase
This approach recognizes https://jonoborden.com as a living creative space in which revision, experimentation, and impermanence are integral to the work.
4.5 Legacy Digital Materials
Legacy digital materials include older digital files created prior to the establishment of current workflows, standards, or infrastructure. These materials may exist in obsolete formats, on outdated media, or with limited documentation.
When feasible, efforts may be made to recover, evaluate, and preserve these materials. However:
Recovery is not guaranteed
Some materials may be incomplete, corrupted, or inaccessible
Preservation decisions will be guided by creative significance, legal considerations, and available resources
5. PRESERVATION ACTIONS
To support the commitments outlined above, preservation activities may include:
Routine backups and geographically separated storage
Periodic review of file formats and storage systems
Controlled migration of files to maintain usability
Creation and maintenance of basic metadata to support identification and context
Specific technical methods may change over time as tools and standards evolve.
6. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Jono Borden, through his affiliated legal entities, is responsible for implementing and maintaining this policy, including decisions regarding selection, preservation priority, access, revision, and retirement of digital materials.
Contributors, collaborators, or contractors who provide digital materials may be asked to follow basic guidelines that support long-term preservation objectives.
7. RIGHTS AND ACCESS
Digital preservation activities are conducted in accordance with applicable intellectual property, contractual, and privacy obligations. Access to preserved materials may be limited or restricted based on rights, sensitivity, spiritual or personal considerations, or business requirements.
8. LIMITS OF COMMITMENT
While Jono Borden, through his affiliated legal entities, is committed to responsible stewardship of digital materials associated with his official website, no guarantee is made that all content can be preserved indefinitely. Preservation priorities, methods, and scope may evolve in response to changes in technology, creative practice, legal context, and available resources.
9. REVIEW AND UPDATES
This policy will be reviewed periodically and updated as necessary to reflect changes in technology, organizational structure, or preservation priorities.
Effective Date: October 21, 2025
Last Reviewed: October 21, 2025