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Engineering the Future of the Past shares information on what the MIT Institute Archives is doing about acquiring and managing born-digital and digitized collections.
Kari R. Smith, Digital Archivist [smithkr [at] mit.edu] is the primary Blog author.Links
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Author Archives: Kari R. Smith
Visualizing PAIMAS and OAIS
Part of the work with implementing a digital archives program is being transparent within the organization and also to external stakeholders. This diagram attempts to convey the PAIMAS and OAIS functions and responsibilities of the Producer and the Archives. In … Continue reading
Resources we’ve been reading
There have been a lot of really good and relevant publications recently that we’ve been reading and referring to in our on-going development of our digital archives program. In this post, I am calling out a few of the ones … Continue reading
Personal Digital Archiving
The past couple of weeks I’ve been thinking about personal digital archiving and how to talk about it to non-archivists. For Preservation Week, the MIT Libraries hosted the ALCTS webinar by Mike Ashenfelder. I provided a Question and Answer session … Continue reading
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