Week 8: Automation and Scripting

Due

• In class we will start the Week 8 activity, Scripting Reflection. Submit your completed activity summary in Brightspace by Sunday night.

Read

• Cocciolo, Anthony. “Unix Commands and Batch Processing for the Reluctant Librarian or Archivist.” Code4Lib Journal: Issue 23, 2014-01-17. https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9158
• Martin, Nicole. “Why Use The Command Line For Digital Archiving And Preservation?” twobit Digital Preservation. June 21, 2020. https://twobitpreservation.com/blog/2020/6/11/why-use-the-command-line-for-digital-archiving-and-preservation
• Berish, Amy. “Learning Python as a Processing Archivist: A Reflection” Bits & Bytes: The Rockefeller Archive Center Blog. April 6, 2016. https://blog.rockarch.org/learning-python-as-a-processing-archivist-a-reflection
• Colloton, Eddy. “THAT DAM PROJECT”. June 14, 2019. http://eddycolloton.com/blog/2019/1/10/that-dam-project
• Potter, Abbey. “Automating Digital Archival Processing at Johns Hopkins University” May 9, 2017. https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2017/05/automating-digital-archival-processing-at-johns-hopkins-university/
• Libraries, University of California Systemwide. UC Guidelines for Born-Digital Archival Description. Oct. 2017. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cg222jc
• Tammi Kim; Karla Irwin. “Learning from Las Vegas: Adapting Workflows for Managing Born-Digital Design Records.” The American Archivist (2021) 84 (2): 355–373. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-84.2.355