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Archival Arrangement and Description: Analog to Digital includes historical background, touches on accessioning, standards, technical appraisal for digital formats, incorporates the OAIS preservation model with processing of digital formats, offers a step-by-step workflow and helpful appendices. It concludes with a future possibility and challenge.
List of contents
Chapter 1 A Brief History of Arrangement and Description
Chapter 2 Performing Arrangement and Description
Chapter 3 Introduction to Digital Records
Chapter 4 Appraising Digital Records
Chapter 5 Accessioning Archival Records
Chapter 6 Archival Arrangement of Digital Records
Chapter 7 Digital Description
Chapter 8 Digital Access to Description and Records
Chapter 9 Parting Thoughts
Appendices
A - Chronology of Technology Changes Impacting Digital Files
B - Software Tools for Digital Tasks
About the author
Lois Hamill is the university archivist and an associate professor at Northern Kentucky University's Steely Library. She has been a practicing archivist for over seventeen years. Her last book, Archives for the Lay Person, was well received, winning a 2013 Kentucky History Award. Hamill is a certified archivist, holds the SAA Digital Archives Specialist certificate, speaks on archival topics at archival library, and history conferences, and is a successful grant writer.
Summary
Archival Arrangement and Description: Analog to Digital includes historical background, touches on accessioning, standards, technical appraisal for digital formats, incorporates the OAIS preservation model with processing of digital formats, offers a step-by-step workflow and helpful appendices. It concludes with a future possibility and challenge.
