This workshop will focus on building strategies to providing access to born-digital material.
Designed as an opportunity for practitioners and beginners to learn from one another, the workshop will take a collaborative approach with a morning of group discussions on relevant topics guided by workshop facilitators, following by a hands-on afternoon with demonstrations of born-digital access systems and breakout discussion sessions.
Topics will be selected through surveying workshop participants and through forum discussion, but will ultimately address how policies, copyright/risk assessment, user needs, reference interactions, processing workflows, donor relations, advocacy, and other archival functions affect how, when, and what we provide access to, with an emphasis on user-driven access throughout.
Facilitated by Alison Clemens (Yale University) and Gregory Wiedeman (University at Albany).
Co-sponsored by the Digital Archivists of Philadelphia (DAP) and Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), with support from the Delaware Valley Archivists Group (DVAG) and Swarthmore College Libraries.