Elements of a Records Survey Worksheet
A records survey worksheet is vital; it helps to systematically identify, organize, and describe records to ensure proper management.
A records survey worksheet is vital; it helps to systematically identify, organize, and describe records to ensure proper management.
A records inventory includes identifying, organizing, and describing records; its steps include surveying, analyzing, and classifying records
Digitization projects based on careful review, analysis, and planning are functional and faithful to the archival sources and support new scholarship
Archival digital projects offer greater efficiency, opportunity costs, increased institutional prestige, build staff expertise, and improve morale.
Archivists strategize before a digitization project. Digitization requires a significant investment, and assessing costs and benefits is essential.
An archives reading room should provide reader comfort with optimum security for historical 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.
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