We’ve been busy the past few months. Take the blog silence for the quiet of busy beavers rather than the absence of activity! As noted in the workflow diagrams, one of the tools that we are assessing both in terms of functionality and how it might fit into our workflows is BitCurator. The BitCurator Team […]
In the last blog post, I described the process and data flow for digital archives using the PAIMAS and OAIS roles, responsibilities, and a few of the functions. Since that diagram, I have received feedback from MIT colleagues and have over-laid onto it two important considerations. First, how the storage spaces for metadata and digital […]
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 this case, I am focused on the tasks with which the Institute Archives and Special […]
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 I’m referring to most often. Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories, released […]
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 for local attendees. While Mike’s presentation focused on digital images and digitizing to digital image […]
