Gordon Arnold CURATEcamp 2015

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Arrangement & Description for Born Digital Materials Bonnie Gordon & Hillel Arnold Rockefeller Archive Center

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Arrangement & Description for Born

Digital MaterialsBonnie Gordon & Hillel Arnold

Rockefeller Archive Center

Overview

★ Overall workflow

★ Forensic Toolkit (FTK) to ArchivesSpace

★ Archivematica to ArchivesSpace

★ ArchivesSpace to DIMES (XTF)

Institutional context

★ “Regular” archivists work with born digital

★ Digital archivists (D-Team) provide support

Overall workflow

Taconic Foundation records

★ Paper & digital from 1958 - 2013

★ 96.6 cubic feet

★ 1.2 GB, 898 files

FTK to ArchivesSpace

FTK reports

To ArchivesSpace

★ XSL:FO to EAD

★ Series & file level description

★ Extent

★ Restrictions

Archivematica to ArchivesSpace

Archivematica transfer and ingest

★ Transfer and ingest microservices

★ UUIDs generated

Creating PREMIS rights statements

“Officers’ diaries are open for scholarly research provided that (1) the diarist is deceased and (2) the volume to be examined is at least twenty years old. All reasonable efforts will be made to determine the fate of the diarist(s), but if such efforts are fruitless then the material will remain closed to scholarly research until 100 years after the officer’s year of birth.”

Creating PREMIS rights statements

★ Google form to capture structured data

★ Local PREMIS implementation documentation

Matching to existing description

★ Archivematica integration via ArchivesSpace API

★ Associates digital object with existing description in ArchivesSpace○ Digital Object record○ Digital Object link (instance)

ArchivesSpace to DIMES

Linked exports

EAD

★ Contextual description★ Physical instance containers

METS

★ Born-digital/digitized file structure★ Descriptive metadata (MODS)

Public discovery

★ EAD and METS indexed in DIMES (XTF)★ Born-digital and digitized objects hosted

on separate VM★ Archivematica UUIDs link images to

description

Linked via Archivematica UUIDs

METS display (very preliminary)

Resources

★ Archivematica/ArchivesSpace/DIMES screencasts: http://bit.ly/rac-screencasts

★ Bonnie: [email protected]★ Hillel: [email protected]