On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Will Hansen <willhansen2(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The Council on Library and Information Resources
(CLIR) has published Born
Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival
Repositories<http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub159>59>.
The report provides recommendations to help ensure the physical and
intellectual well-being of materials created and managed in digital form
("born digital") that are transferred from donors to archival repositories.
Ten archivists and curators from institutions in the United States and
United Kingdom collaborated on the report. The lead author, Gabriela
Redwine, is digital archivist at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library at Yale University. Additional authors are Megan Barnard, of the
Harry Ransom Center; Kate Donovan, of the Tamiment Library & Robert F.
Wagner Labor Archives at New York University; Erika Farr, of the
Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University; Michael
Forstrom and Nancy Kuhl, of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
at Yale University; Will Hansen, of Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein
Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Jeremy Leighton John, of the Department of
Digital Scholarship at the British Library; Seth Shaw, of Clayton State
University, and Susan Thomas, of the Bodleian Library’s Western Manuscripts
Department.
The report is presented in four sections, each of which provides an
overview of a key area of concern: initial collection review, privacy and
intellectual property, key stages in acquiring digital materials, and
post-acquisition review by the repository. Each section concludes with two
lists of recommendations: one for donors and dealers, and a second for
repository staff. Appendixes provide more specific information about
possible staffing activities, as well as a list of resources and
ready-to-use checklists that incorporate recommendations from throughout
the report.
The report is available as a PDF download free of charge at
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub159.
An earlier draft of the report with capabilities for readers to add
comments, questions, and suggestions remains available at
http://mcpress.media-commons.org/borndigital/ .
Thanks,
Will Hansen
Assistant Curator of Collections
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Duke University
Box 90185
Durham, NC 27708-0185
Phone (919) 660-5958
william.hansen(a)duke.edu