In-house and Outsourced Archives Digitization
Archives digitization can be done either in-house or outsourced; both alternatives should be considered when starting a digital archives project.
Archives digitization can be done either in-house or outsourced; both alternatives should be considered when starting a digital archives project.
Digital archives projects require new skills and collaboration is increasingly a factor in archives, bringing a need for training in a hybrid environment.
The American College of Surgeons uses Eloquent Archives to manage their ~400 linear feet of multimedia materials and make them available for research.
Libraries, archives & museums (LAMs) may be physically separate but digitally aligned. Collections management systems enable sharing & collaboration.
This post describes elements of a formal archives collection development policy and guidance on strategic issues of advocacy, planning and measurement.
Planning a digital archives project involves serious considerations and questions which can be used to determine feasibility and likelihood of success.
Ensuring longevity of digital data is complicated and costly; they need routine preservation to survive; archivists must adopt 3 preservation strategies.
Most people don’t understand copyright complexity. Archivists must educate users, colleagues, leadership teams about copyright as applied to collections.
Author, archivist, and records manager Margot Note describes how and why digital archives collections management expands access to archives holdings.