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New Workflows for Born-Digital Assets: Managing Charles E. Bracker's Orchid Photographs Collection
In this article, authors, Hurford and Runyon, describe the series of tasks and types of collaboration needed to create a digital collection. These tasks include strategies for classifying and managing files, developing metadata, establishing criteria…
The forensic imagination: interdisciplinary approaches to tracing creativity in writers' digital born archives.
Explores how archivists, authors, and researchers might collaborate so that digital preservation and digital scholarship may thrive
Defining "born digital": an essay
Erway provides a succinctly defined list of fundamental tasks and issues to consider when creating and preserving digital collections. Born-digital resources are simply “items created and managed in digital form.” Erway begins his essay by describing…
The evolution of web archiving
Analyzes results of two surveys, finding patterns and trends in web archiving practices around the globe indicating significant growth in the practice of web archiving
Digital Ephemera and the Calculus of Importance
In this blogpost, Dan Cohen, executive director of the Digital Public Library of America, argues that square root sampling, a mathematically developed method for crime prevention, can help archivists make acquisition decisions, especially when large…
Challenges to born-digital institutional archiving: the case of a New York art museum.
This article focuses on the challenges institutions such as the New York Archive Museum (NYAM) face when dealing with born-digital institutional archives. The findings are presented through a case study of NYAM using three data sources: analysis of…
Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in the Digital Age
In this text Clough uses the example of the Smithsonian museum to ask and then answer the question, "How can we prepare ourselves to reach the generation of digital natives who bring a huge appetite-and aptitude-for the digital world?" His text…
What Not To Save: The Future of Ephemera
In her presentation to the 2009 Media in Transition 6 Conference, Alison Byerly appeals to scholars of all disciplines to take an interest in web archiving and preserve the born digital byproducts of their daily online transactions. Byerly…
Archiving
“Archiving” by Digital Writing and Research Lab is a family-friendly podcast episode released and published March 18th, 2014. In this episode of the archive the host, Megan Eatman, speaks to members of the Digital Writing and Research Lab’s Digital…