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The "Best Practice Guidelines for Digital Collections" provides the essential, critical standards that all digital librarians, archivists and scholars should implement when designing a digital collection. The article also includes guidelines for…

This website was designed and produced by the UK Archaeology Data Service and Digital Antiquity in the US over the course of a two-year collaborative project. Designed to be a guide for good standards to follow in the world of digital archiving, it…

The article, “Archaeological Digital Archiving in Turkey,” provides an in-depth look behind the curtain of the digital archiving scene across the globe. Found through the University of Central Florida Library, this article is available online at no…

The climate crisis has altered many facets of life and has not neglected digital archiving. In her book, From Handwriting to Footprinting Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis, Anne Baillot calls attention to the digital practices of…

Baylis counters the idea that there are too many digitized historic photographs for public use by stating that there is too little information contextualizing these photographs. Using the Larcom Albums of 19th century Irish prison photographs housed…

Besek explains how the collecting and preserving of digital content poses challenges to the intellectual property rights that libraries and archives are use to following. A balance between copyright owners and users is an ongoing process; therefore,…

Selecting and appraising archives and manuscripts is an introductory text describing the challenges and processes in selecting and appraising archives and manuscripts to ensure the maintained quality of an archive.

The book Archiving Websites: General Considerations and Strategies by Niels Brügger is mainly for researchers, students, and others without special technical knowledge who wish to save a website for further study. This is for those who wish to start…

A new policy directive establishing the internal NARA structural, environmental control, fire safety, preservation, and security standards for appropriate archival storage conditions in NARA archival facilities

This book equips non-professional archivists with the skills to tackle one of the most challenging tasks of archiving: arranging and describing archival materials. Carmicheal offers step-by-step guidance to understanding the purpose of organization…