Engineering the Future of the Past » working draft http://libraries.mit.edu/digital-archives Blog about MIT Libraries' Digital Archives Work Wed, 09 Oct 2013 18:42:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Documenting Process Flow http://libraries.mit.edu/digital-archives/documenting-process-flow/ http://libraries.mit.edu/digital-archives/documenting-process-flow/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:11:45 +0000 Kari R. Smith http://libraries.mit.edu/digital-archives/?p=161 Continue reading →]]> As we are working on developing our digital archives capacities we have been testing, evaluating, and trying out processes for managing digital archival material. Towards this end we have documented and created templates for acquisition, submission and archival processing tasks.

Shared here [PDF files] are our latest working-drafts of templates, visual process flows, written workflows, and task guides. We welcome your feedback and comment. These are created under a CC-BY-NC license as product of the MIT Libraries, Institute Archives and Special Collections staff.

Digital Archives Transfer and Ingest workflow Guide

On-Site Data Transfer Documentation
Form for collecting information about on-site transfer of digital content.

README_template for Digital Archives Processing Tasks

Process Flow Diagrams for Digital Archives Transfer, Validate, and Ingest
Transfer Process Flow diagram
Validate Process Flow diagram
Ingest Process Flow diagram

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