Archival Project Planning: The Essentials
Archival project planning should be collaborative and focused on ensuring project support and resources. Take enough time to plan an archives project.
Archival Project Scheduling Tips
Scheduling tips for archival projects include plan to achieve results within a specific timeframe but to offer flexibility add 10 percent extra time.
Getting Started on Archival Projects
Archival project managers must ensure the transition from planning to activity is smooth, while keeping archives project time, cost, quality, balanced.
How to Kick Off Your Archival Project
Archival projects must begin with a kickoff meeting so the archival project manager can set expectations, build commitment and define roles.
Developing Leadership Skills with Archival Projects
Archival project managers must be good managers and courageous leaders, committed to success and influencing. Tips for showing leadership in archival projects.
Characteristics of Effective Archival Project Managers
Traits of effective archival project managers. Archives project managers must both work and manage, and must have the authority to make decisions.
Digital Archives: How and Why to Write Digital Preservation Policy
Digital archives preservation works best with proper digital preservation policy, covering content, scope, file format, audience.
Preserving Digital Archives: Choosing Which Digital Archives to Preserve
Choosing which digital archives to preserve. Technical appraisal that considers how digital files are read, documented, processed, and preserved is critical
Readers’ Choice: Favorite Archives Blog Posts of 2018
Archives professionals reading Lucidea’s blog in 2018 showed a strong interest in digitization and related collections management issues.
Shifting Concepts of Preservation in a Digital World
Archival preservation practices are transforming in the digital environment; there are new principles that apply to digitized and born-digital materials.
Scalability of Digital Preservation: The Right Fit for All
Discoveries made in personal digital archiving, coupled with best practices of larger institutions, may provide smaller archives with solutions.
Skills Building for Digital Preservation
The need for training in digital preservation is high. Archivists require more digital preservation training and professional development opportunities.
The Data Economy: Funding Sustainable Digital Preservation
Continuous access to digital content requires sustainable preservation activities that necessitate both deliberate and ongoing resource allocation.
Integrating Digital Preservation into Your Archives Program
Archivists need to ensure digital preservation is embedded into business as usual. Today more archivists are addressing digital preservation concerns.
Eliciting Archival Project Requirements
Archives project management includes eliciting requirements from stakeholders through a variety of techniques including interviews, focus groups, surveys.
Developing Goals and Objectives for Archival Projects
Archivists support projects with SMART (specific, measurable, accurate, realistic, and time bound) goals and objectives, while staying flexible.
Archives Collection-Level Description: Pros & Cons
Archives collection-level description can be useful for images of the same subject, but problematic for collections with a variety of subjects.
Archives & Item-Level Description: An Integrated Approach
Archivists take integrated approach to digital initiatives, selection to description, access to preservation, connecting practical & cultural objectives.
The Current State of Description for Archives
Archival description combines traditional library and archival practice with more focused practices found in the museum and visual resources communities.
Metadata Best Practices
When digitizing archives, a metadata standard appropriate to the materials in hand and the intended end-users must be selected.
Metadata for Archival Collections: Challenges and Opportunities
Metadata is a significant cost of digital archives. Metadata creators must provide enough information to be useful but cannot afford to be exhaustive.
Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Considerations for Digital Archival Projects
Archivists must have a flexible policy framework with clear, documented digital archives processes reflecting legal, ethical and cultural considerations.
Archives: Values to Consider During Selection for Digitization
Selection criteria for archives digitization projects must include informational, intrinsic, artifactual and aesthetic values.
Archives: Digital Imaging and Resolution Recommendations
Archives digital imaging takes planning; image quality choices made when files are created have a profound effect on cost, research value, and usefulness.
Image Description Practices for Digital Archives Projects
Standards for describing archival materials exist but many archives use descriptive methods suited only to their holdings; description remains idiosyncratic.