As noted in the main ticket for this project, a review of the website was performed with the faculty involved, and Mike Durbin team reviewed the status of the site.

It is clear that this website meets the standard for a preservation review: no active editing or additions to the site itself are to be made; only updates that stabilize existing content and/or link to resources that will support search and access within library systems. Updates to the website as described in the main ticket are moving forward.

The final steps for preservation review are:

1) Location (if possible) of the original images used for the website to determine if there are preservation-quality images that should be preserved, along with those used for the website itself.

Preservation update (2/2019) on image components and location that comprise the website:

a. The images of printed materials (journals, bulletin):

Southern Collecting Trip Book #1

Southern Collecting Trip Book #2

Southern Collecting Trip Routes

In Search of Native Azaleas, Morris Arboretum Bulletin

Were all digitized in [tracksys as tifs as per their standard|https://tracksys.lib.virginia.edu/admin/master_files?q%5Bmetadata_id_eq%5D=9253. These materials are also represented in XTF in Virgo.

b. The photographic images/scans of the actual flower images have proved much more difficult to locate locally, due to the age of the project and the various sources of the photographic images. It is likely, given the review below, that the images seen on the website are not held locally at UVa, and stem from various sources (many named on the website). These images, their location, and any additional information about them were pursued via:

-Conversations and legacy email chain exchanges with Bradley Daigle (former head of the current DPG) and other members of the team thanked on the "about" page of the website. From Bradley:

"Those were done by DLPS (way before they were merged into my unit) and a previous search for those original files came up empty. I do recall that we did not own them...Neither the Etext folks (once Kendon retired) nor Special Collections saw themselves as owners. I have an email from Edward stating that SC did not own the site." 

-Search of all tracksys and system information, conversations with Mike Durbin related to the website and collection materials for storage locations from Papers of Henry T. Skinner and the American Rhododendron Society Papers (10533).

-Conversations with Special Collections & Archives about this website and online collection as it relates to both the Papers of Henry T. Skinner and the American Rhododendron Society Papers. It should be noted that this MSS number (10533), which encompasses both of these collections, is part of a much larger effort the organization and description around multiple accession collections. The manuscripts archivist is not aware of images like those on the website being in the collection, and is not interested/does not see the website as something that would be considered part of this collection.

-Review of legacy email chains that depict the website creation from the Middle Atlantic Chapter of the Rhododendron society, which funded digitization of the journals, and notes that those who were part of the chapter "contributed photographs of examples of the azalea species that Skinner found and documented during his travels."

Based on this information gathering and barring any new information about the photos on the website, it is likely that the images depicted are not owned by UVa and that master copies are not held locally in physical or digital form.

The jpeg copies that exist on the website should be preserved in context with the website, but no preservation plan is needed separately for the master images of photos, as it does not appear we have ever owned them.

2) Determine how we should package, deposit and make accessible the entirety of the website itself, though we are currently committed to providing ongoing access to the live website. This could be a tarball or zipped copy potentially findable through library systems. Need input from Mike Durbin team, and Glendon, Ivey (img7u) [X] team on feasibility of this approach

3) These two steps will then be examined as a whole for the project, and Levels of Preservation storage will then be determined with DCT.

4) All of this will also then be reflected in an MOU presented to Jeanne, et al.