Digital Preservation Q&A - Recent questions tagged aprasial

When should Archives Complement the Acquisition of a Personal Papers Collection with Web Archiving?

Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:26:01 +0000

At this point, authors, scientists, politicains and others who's papers are aquired by archives, share photos on flickr, write blogs, have personal websites, etc. That is, asside from their papers stored and organized in their physical or digital files, or their corraspondance in their email accounts, and other sets of private unpublished materials they also have a range of ephemerial likely at risk materials that are currently avalible on the public web. In what situations does it make sense for an archives to use something like Archive-It to aquire these sites? As a plus, it would be great to have actual examples of cases where archives have decided it made sense to complement the aquisition of a personal papers collection with web archiving.

What makes for well defined selection criteria for an Archive-It Web Archive collection?

Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:08:31 +0000

Tools like Archive-It make it relaitvly easy to archive the web. However, given how heterogeneous the web and web content is it becomes a challenge to pin down and define what web content matters to a particular organization and how to identify that content's place in seed URLs. To this end, I am curious to hear what people think make for the core requirements for selection criteria for an Archive-It collection. Idealy, answers here could point to some Archive-It collections that clearly follow through on well defined selection criteria.

What format questions to ask and considerations to make in acquisition of born digital photography collections

Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:16:26 +0000

Libraries and Archives that collect and aquire the collections of photographers often collect both sets of negatives, proofs, and prints. As photographers move to incresingly sophisticated workflows for managing, organizing and describing photographs in a range of flavors of RAW and digital negative formats what kinds of questions should curators be working through when making decisions about how to ingest and store the collection.

In particular, I would be interested in what questions and considerations a curator should think through regarding 1) sustainability of formats and 2) authenticity to documentation of the process of a particular photographer.