Archival Work

in the Digital Era

Kate Tasker

February 27, 2014

Out of the Box

Information in the digital age

• Ubiquitous

• Personal and professional

• 99% of today’s records created

in digital form

New challenges: preservation, access, priorities, and collaboration

Preservation• End of era of “benign neglect”

• Criteria for Trusted Digital Repositories

• Secure storage

• Multiple backups

• Authentication and validation

• Standardization

• Institutional support

Access

• XML-encoded EAD finding aids

• Online digital collections

• Questions of copyright, fair-use, and privacy

Priorities

• Making processing more efficient (More Product, Less Process: MPLP)

• Bigger focus on digitization

• Exploring new ways of making content discoverable

Collaboration

• Partnering with other institutions and vendors

• Sharing resources and collections

• Standardized description and metadata

Thank you.Questions?