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- Introduction to Archives - Establishing an Archives - Acquisition, Appraisal & Accessioning - Arrangement & Description - - Preservation & Emergency Planning - Reference & Access - Automation & Digitization - Electronic & Born-Digital Records - - Grants, Fund-raising & Projects - Other Resources - Publication Sources - |
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Automation and Digitization |
▪ Automation / Digitization Projects Revised February 2010 MH |
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GENERAL RESOURCES
(online) Reference list, part 1 \ Reference list, part 2 Storytelling in the 21st Century and Beyond: Preserving Digital Records for the Ages Presentation to the BCMA conference by Lara Wilson, Kelly Stewart and Rosaleen Hill, Victoria, BC, November 20, 2008 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2008)
(Archives Society of Alberta, 2004)
Recent Developments in Standards for Archival Description and Metadata: What is metadata? (Adrian Cunningham, National Archives of Australia, 2001)
Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation & Access, First Ed. / Maxine K. Sitts, ed. (Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000)
Archives and Automation: Issues and Trends / Rob Weiner (Education Resources Information Centre – ERIC, 1995)
Chip Monks at the Gate: The Impact of Technology on Archives, Libraries and the User / Hugh A. Taylor, 1991 Republished: AABC Newsletter, Vol. 15, No. 4, Fall 2005 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2005)
DIGITAL REFORMATTING (online)
(NAGARA: National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators, 2010)
(Council on Library and Information Resources, 2009) Sample reports: Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization, A White Paper / Oya Y. Rieger. February 2008. Pub 141 Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation / Gregory W. Lawrence, William R. Kehoe, Oya Y. Rieger, William H. Walters, and Anne R. Kenney. June 2000. Pub 93 Authenticity in a Digital Environment. May 2000. Pub 92 Why Digitize? / Abby Smith. February 1999. Pub 80 Digitization as a Method of Preservation? / Hartmut Weber and Marianne Dörr. October 1997. Pub 69
(Collaborative Digitization Program, BCR, 2008)
Creating and Managing Digital Content (Canadian Heritage Information Network, 2008)
Digital Output: Inkjet & Laser Printers (or Life and Death in the Digital World) / Rosaleen Hill (Delivered at the 2008 AABC Annual Conference)
Archival Community Digitization Program (ACDP) : An Invitation to Archives in BC / Fred Farrell AABC Newsletter, Vol. 17, No. 4, Fall 2007, p.2 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2007)
Best Practices for Digitization (resource list) (BC History Digitization Program, 2007)
(Colorado: Bibliographical Center for Research - BCR, 2007)
A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (National Information Standards Organization, 2007)
Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get into the Flow / Ricky Erway and Jennifer Schaffner (Ohio: Online Computer Library Center, 2007)
(Online Courses and Best Practices, Canadian Heritage Information Network, 2006)
Creating and Preserving Digital Collections: Selected Bibliography (Southeastern Library Network - Solinet, 2006)
Digitization and Archives / CCA Preservation Committee (Canadian Council of Archives, 2002)
(National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, 2002)
Capture Your Collections: A Guide for Managers Planning and Implementing Digitization Projects (Canadian Heritage Resources Network, 2000)
Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access / Maxine K. Sitts (ed) (Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000)
(Council of Nova Scotia Archives, 200-)
(Archives Council of Prince Edward Island, 200-)
Digitizing Historical Pictorial Collections for the Internet / Stephen E. Ostrow (Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998)
Selecting Research Collections for Digitalization / Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell and Jan Merrill-Oldham (Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998)
AUTOMATION / DIGITIZATION PROJECTS (online)
Northwood Photographic Fonds Digitization Project / Erica Hernández and Ramona Rose AABC Newsletter, Vol. 17, No. 4, Fall 2007 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2007)
Collaborative Digitization Program (Colorado: Bibliographical Center for Research - BCR, 2007)
A Perspective on Archival Network Development / Bill Purver AABC Newsletter, Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring 2002 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2002)
Raising CAIN in Alberta / Geraldine Harris ASA Newsletter / Volume 21 Number 3, Winter/Spring 2002 (Archives Society of Alberta, 2002)
Pacifica Millennium Project / Trevor May AABC Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 3, Summer 2000 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2000)
SOFTWARE AND DATABASES (online)
Directory of Archival Suppliers: Software (Archives Canada, Canada Archival Information Network, 2010-)
ICA-AtoM (Access to Memory) is free, open-source, web-based archival description software that is based on International Council on Archives (ICA) standards. It is multi-lingual and supports multi-repository collections. See the online user manual for a full description of features. User manual: ICA-AtoM User Manual Developer: Artefactual Systems Inc. Example: Memory B.C. – B.C. Archival Information Network (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2009) Tutorial: ICA-AtoM Tutorial (ICA-AtoM Project, 2010)
The ICA-AtoM Project and Technology / Peter Van Garderen(ICA-AtoM Project, 2009)
Andornot Archives Online (add-on for InMagic DbTextworks) (Andornot Consulting Inc., 2009)
Andornot Archives Starter Kit (add-on for Inmagic WebPublisher PRO) (Andornot Consulting Inc., 2009)
Cinemage (ACT Inc.) Example: Cinemage database ▪ Archives Network of Alberta -- Alberta InSight -- Alberta InWork (Archives Society of Alberta, 2008)
DB Text Works and Web Publisher
(Inmagic,
Inc.) Regional distributor: Andornot Consulting Inc. Examples: Inmagic web version databases ▪ Bowen Island Historians Museum and Archives (Bowen Island Historians, 2009) (City of Vancouver Archives, 2009) (District of West Vancouver, 2008) (City of Burnaby, 2008)
Eloquent Archives (Eloquent Systems) Example: Eloquent database ▪ North Vancouver Archives database
(North Vancouver Museum and Archives, 2008)
SEE ALSO: Online Finding Aids (samples) and Networks
PUBLICATIONS (for sources click here)
“The Effect of the Web on Archives” / Sylvain Senécal (Archivaria 59, The Association of Canadian Archivists, 2005)
Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager (FACET, the imprint of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 2004)
Enhancement of Document Legibility Using Spectroscopic Imaging / E. Michael Attas (Archivaria 57, The Association of Canadian Archivists, 2004)
Introduction to Imaging / Howard Besser (Getty Research Institute, 2003)
Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives / Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (Ohio: Online Computer Library Center, Research Libraries Group, 2000)
Please send your suggestions for corrections, revisions or additions, using the subject heading "Toolkit", to the Archives Association of British Columbia at: info@aabc.ca. Your input is appreciated! Thank you.
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