Workbook on Digital Private Papers
Workbook on Digital Private Papers
01 Introduction
02 Collection development
- Introduction
- Regular snapshot accessions
- Post-custodial approach
- Combining snapshots & post-custodial approaches
- The traditional approach
- Transfer via retired media
- Self-archiving
- Conclusions
03 Working with record creators
- Introduction
- The nature of personal digital archives
- Donation and deposit agreements
- Surveying collections
- Accessioning digital and hybrid personal archives
- Accessioning common types of personal digital record
- Sample how-to guides
- Useful resources
04 Appraisal and disposal
- Introduction
- Introduction to disposal
- Appraising digital records: a worthwhile exercise?
- Issues to consider when making appraisal decisions
- Appraisal-related issues encountered by Paradigm
- Recommended approaches to appraising personal archives
- Practical solutions advocated by the Paradigm Project
- Useful appraisal tools
- Useful resources
05 Administrative and preservation metadata
- Introduction
- Persistent identifiers
- Preservation metadata
- Using METS for the preservation and dissemination of digital archives
- Rights metadata for personal archives
- Metadata for authenticity: hash functions and digital signatures
- Useful resources
06 Arranging and cataloguing digital and hybrid archives
- Introduction
- Standards for archival description
- Indexing and authority files
- A proposal for intellectual access to hybrid archives
- EAD templates for a personal archive
- Arranging and cataloguing emails
- Arranging and cataloguing websites
- Useful resources
07 Digital repositories
- Introduction
- Comparing repository software for preserving personal digital archives
- Useful resources
08 Digital preservation strategies
- Introduction
- Degree of preservation
- File formats
- Selecting the right preservation strategy
- Preservation strategies for personal digital archives
- Useful resources
09 Legal issues
- Introduction
- Public Records Acts
- Proposed archival legislation for England and Wales
- Human Rights
- Data protection
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Policy and legislation aimed at enhancing access to information
- Defamation
- The impact of legal issues on the timing and conditions of access experienced by researchers
- Useful resources
Appendices
- Model gift agreement
- Guidelines for creators of personal archives
- Paradigm records survey
- Transfer list
Sections specific to the Online Workbook
- Glossary
- Creating screenshots
- Capturing directory structures
- Harvesting websites with Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0
- Exporting email from Microsoft Outlook email clients
- How-Tos
- Constructing Library of Congress Subject Headings
- NCA Rules
- International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families: ISAAR CPF
- Installing - Fedora 2.1
- Installing - DSpace
- Troubleshooting METS files and Fedora's Directory Ingest Service
- Downloadable PDFs of the printed Workbook
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