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Digital Archivist

Digital Archivist

Oct 05, 2015

DRAFT 8/5/15 from meeting with Donna

ACTION ITEM:  set up meeting with Ashley Adair.  Orientation meeting with aaa staff, kp, stephanie t, tim k

To do:  determine role of digital archivist in the AAA & APL

 

Need scheduled time dedicated to DA, set up a workspace

 

AAA list of expectations of DA:

  • determine centralized workflows

  • born digital - from acquisition to access.  ex. meeting with donor shepherd through the DOG and facilitate accessioning; processing; all the way up to access points.  

  • training staff to support the work (ex. data entry)

  • legacy work with iSchool - run it through utl's new workflow to retrieve and expose files

  • iSchool liaison (Pat Galloway, Unmil)

  • digitized work - incoming and legacy - preparing it for DAMS

  • documenting rates of work (for assessment - processing calculator ex. time/cost to process 200,000 digital images...)

 

Action items:

  1. begin embedding metadata in reformatting (ex. holding institution, copyright & use)