Overview
Archival Arrangement and Description: Analog to Digital teaches the core functions of arrangement and description. A historical summary grounds new archivists to assess proposed changes for digital files. After presenting the basics of arrangement and description (processing) for analog materials, the text segues to digital materials incorporating the OAIS preservation model into a detailed, sample workflow. Although accessioning and technical appraisal precede processing, they are discussed because they are performed differently for digital materials and create a different starting point for processing digital files. Description is external to the OAIS model but linked to it. Recent advances in description and its delivery are presented along with concerns for the ability of smaller archives to participate in envisioned future developments that are technology reliant. New specialties like digital curation and data curation show the continued relevance of archival expertise for the digital future. Rich with extras, the text includes and points to many readily web accessible additional resources.
Full Product Details
Author: Lois Hamill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 17.60cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 25.80cm
Weight: 0.440kg
ISBN: 9781442279162
ISBN 10: 1442279168
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 15 October 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Lois Hamill's latest book is a compendium of current thinking on digital archival records that offers a range of advice for new and seasoned archivists. Practitioners can use this book to integrate digital object workflows into their more familiar procedures with analog records. Throughout the text, Hamill makes connections to archivists' long-standing practices of using knowledge of their repositories' needs to adapt to their ever-changing environment. -- Meg Miner, University Archivist & Special Collections Librarian, Illinois Wesleyan University
Author Information
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.
