Week 3: Processing Born-Digital Archives

Slides

Due

In class we will start the Week 3 activity, Corrupting a Bitstream. Submit your completed activity summary in Brightspace by Sunday night.

Read

• National Best Practices for Archival Accessioning Working Group. Archival Accessioning Best Practices: ABP v.1.0.1. November 2024. GitBook, https://accessioning.gitbook.io/archival-accessioning-best-practices/accession-record-elements. Note: For this reading, use the search bar to locate and read just the sections addressing born-digital materials.
• Faulder, Erin. “Module 16: Accessioning Digital Archives.” Appraisal and Acquisition Strategies, edited by Michael Shallcross and Christopher J. Prom, Trends in Archives Practice series, Society of American Archivists, 2016, https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Module_16_CaseStudy3_MaxEckard.pdf.
• Arroyo, Elvia. “Invisible Defaults and Perceived Limitations: Processing the Juan Gelman Files.” On Archivy, Oct 30 2016, https://medium.com/on-archivy/invisible-defaults-and-perceived-limitations-processing-the-juan-gelman-files-4187fdd36759
• Arroyo-Ramírez, Elvia; Bolding, Kelly; Charlton, Faith; and Hughes, Allison (2018) “Tell Us about Your Digital Archives Workstation”: A Survey and Case Study,”Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 5 , Article 16. https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol5/iss1/16
• Jacquarie, C., Berdini, A., Peltzman, S., & Tasker, K. (2018). Describing Digital: The Design and Creation of a Born-Digital Archival Description Standard at the University of California Libraries. Journal of Western Archives, 9(1), 1-24. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol9/iss1/10/