In its second year, the University of Minnesota’s Electronic Records Task
Force is working on processing electronic records previously acquired and
ingested into the digital processing workstation and determining how to
make them available to the public. As with most digital materials the
answer is often “it depends” and the Task Force has found itself saying
this almost every day. Some accessions are well organized while others
have come to us with extraneous materials that need to be culled prior to
preparing for access. We are exploring who is best suited to do this work
and are assigning levels of processing to assist in better understanding
what must be done to a collection prior to it being made available, whether
online or in the reading room. Methods for providing access are still
being developed and a main goal this year is to determine what holes exist
in providing access to materials using currently available methods. This
poster highlights the work done around the areas of defining processing
levels, minimal requirements for AIPs, processing workflows, and
documenting access mechanisms.