Processing Room Recommendations
A processing room provides a separate workspace from storage areas where archivists examine, sort, arrange, describe, and rehouse archival materials.
A processing room provides a separate workspace from storage areas where archivists examine, sort, arrange, describe, and rehouse archival materials.
Archival storage should incorporate only the materials required to house and store the collections. Detailed recommendations and best practices.
Metadata provides users with a standardized means of intellectual access to digitized materials.
Digitizing archival materials requires describing them to aid users in discovering them. Description is challenging due to detail required.
Description of archival collections assumes archivists should increase the number of access points to materials to help users navigate their collections
As part of a digitization project, some post-production is necessary to obtain surrogates that match the original’s detail, sharpness, and tonal range
Archives and archivists should consider both in-house and outsourced labor options for digitization projects; guidance on weighing the options.
Organizations rely on best practices to justify the investments made in digitization projects; strategic planning, management, realistic cost estimates
Aesthetic, evidential, informational, intrinsic, and artifactual values, influence selection for archival digitization.
Prior to archival digitization, archivists should address areas of concern: publicity, privacy, copyright, legal matters, including international laws
Selection is an indispensable tool for digitization because maintaining collections is expensive, and expenses for digital materials are significant.
Technical post, digital archives. Converting physical information to electronic form requires archivists to understand digitization fundamentals
Technical post; archival digitization; additive and subtractive light mixtures differ; this complicates reproduction of images on monitors or in print.
Archivists embrace the digital world as they transform their physical holdings into electronic records through digitization projects.
Archivists have entered the digital decisive moment; digitized and born-digital images have substantially departed from the legacy of analog materials.
Archivists can accelerate gains from digitization by presenting a business case for digital transformation to those who lead their organizations.
Increases in remote working, changing needs, and user preferences for remote research have made digitization of archival holdings a priority.
Archival digitization projects are complex but when managed successfully their benefits outweigh the skills, costs, and time required
The history of a business is a key to its identity; keeping the memory of its strategic path via corporate history helps focus that identity over time.
Organizations evaluate records and set retention periods based on records lifecycles; there are 3 stages: active use, semi-active use, and disposition
The functions of records maintenance include organizing and filing records and identifying which records to retain and for how long.
The purpose of a records survey is to determine records categories users create, receive, process, or maintain in operational or project-based work.
Archivists transform complex groupings of primary sources into insightful and succinct information through arrangement and description; principles
Organizations benefit themselves and the public by preserving records, organizing them, and making them available within and outside the institution.
Archivists can identify advocacy content that fits into customer service interactions, represents the archives’ perspective, and articulates its needs