by Ann Kaste
Quick Summary
Spend Tuesdays this summer learning about funds for digitization, the importance of digital content metadata and transferability into different environments, workflow of processing born-digital records, best Practices in digitization, and digital preservation.
The following sessions are brought to you by Minitex partners in the Professional Development Alliance. Click on the links to each session to learn more and to register.
Grant Opportunities with the National Historic Publications and Records Commission
June 4, 2024, 10:00 a.m. Eastern
In this session, the Director for Publishing Programs will talk about their program to support Collaborative Digital Editions. The goal of this program is to provide access to, and editorial context for, the historical documents and records that tell the American story. Projects may focus on broad historical movements in U.S. history, including any aspect of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American history, such as law (including the social and cultural history of the law), politics, social reform, business, military, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience.
Processing Born-Digital Materials
June 11, 2024, 11:00 a.m. Eastern
This presentation will detail the workflows used by the team at University at Buffalo's Special Collections to process born-digital record, such as working with donors, initial collection review, describing digital records, and working with hybrid collections.
Digital Preservation Basics with Storage Media and Digital Forensics
June 18, 2024, 11:00 a.m. Eastern
This workshop will introduce you to the basics of digital preservation. It will empower those without a background in computers or coding to feel confident doing digital preservation in archives! The presentation will help identify different storage media encountered in archival collections, as well as introduce digital forensics tools to help with data integrity and authenticity. Finally, participants will have an opportunity to experiment with Library of Congress’s Bagger software, to demonstrate how you might transfer files safely off hardware and generate metadata while you do it!
