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Working with Legacy Media: A Lone Arranger's First Steps

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PTA Issue 6 (2016)
Author
Charlton, Elizabeth
Abstract

[Excerpt] In 2013, a naked hard drive from Fiji arriving in my small religious archives (an equivalent full-time staff of 2.5 – one archivist and two archives’ assistants) started me off on the path of digital preservation and, in particular, the digital forensics practices that are beneficial for archivists. With such a small staff, outsourced IT services, and no digital preservation policy in sight, it was time to start exploring how institutions of my size could manage legacy media and start planning for the born-digital archives that will continue to arrive. Since I hold a part-time position, I was able to undertake this exploration in my own time through the support provided by a scholarship from the Ian McLean Wards Memorial Trust in 2015.

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Practical Technology for Archives
Volume & Issue
Iss. 6
Date Issued
2016-06
Keywords
digital collections
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legacy media
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preservation
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article

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