A Word About Digital Files and Acquisition Negotiations
As we begin to bring into the MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections born-digital material from personal archives, we are reviewing our guidance documentation for language that supports our...
View ArticleBe Prepared … and Flexible
As we are going into the field to collect digital files from people’s homes and offices I am learning what items I should bring with me in my Digital Archivist’s toolbox. Based on our most recent...
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Defining the Role of Digital Archivist
Recently, I was asked to present at the MIT Libraries all-staff meeting on the topic, “Defining the Role of Digital Archivist.” It was a great opportunity to share with colleagues examples of what we...
View ArticleDocumenting Process Flow
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...
View ArticlePersonal 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...
View ArticleResources 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...
View ArticleResources for archiving your personal digital data
Today I had the pleasure of contributing to the Radio Boston program, hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti and with Bina Venkataraman as her guest. For information about how to preserve your digital data...
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