The AABC Archivist's Toolkit: Electronic and Born-digital Records

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Revised February 2010   MH

GENERAL RESOURCES  (Online)

Electronic Records (National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA), 2009)

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)  

Model Plan for an Archival Authority Implementing Digital Recordkeeping and Archiving (Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative, 2007)

Canadian Digital Information Strategy (Library and Archives Canada, 2005-)

Electronic Records: A Workbook for Archivists (ICA Study 16) (International Council on Archives, Committee on Current Recordsin an Electronic Environment, 2005)

PRESERVING AUTHENTICITY  (Online)

eRecords Research (Report 2) : Functions, Activities, Resource Requirements (Simon Fraser University Archives and Records Management Department, 2005)

How to Preserve Authentic Electronic Records (InterPARES Task Force, 2002)

Requirements for Assessing and Maintaining the Authenticity of Electronic Records (InterPARES Task Force, 2002)

Preserving the Long-Term Authenticity of Electronic Records: The InterPARES Project (Heather MacNeil, University of British Columbia, 2000) AABC Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring 2000

The Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records (Duranti, Eastwood and MacNeil, School of Library, Archival & Information Studies, University of British Columbia, 1997)

PHYSICAL PRESERVATION  (Online)

Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Program Technical Guidelines (Library of Congress, 2011)

Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, 2009)

Born Digital Photographs: Acquisition and Preservation Strategies (Presentation developed by Rosaleen Hill and delivered at the 2006 AABC Annual Conference)

PUBLICATIONS

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"Moments of Risk: Identifying Threats to Electronic Records" / David Bearman, Archivaria 62 (Association of Canadian Archivists, 2006)

"Managing the Long-term Preservation of Electronic Archives or Preserving the Medium andthe Message" /  Jacques Grimard, Archivaria 59 (Association of Canadian Archivists, 2005)

Access to Information in a Digital World  / Karen Adams and William Birdsall (eds.) (Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, 2004)

Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records / Luciana Duranti, Terence M. Eastwood and Heather MacNeil (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002)

Managing Electronic Records, 2nd ed. / William Saffady (Kansas: ARMA International, 1998) 

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