A team effort: Overcoming digital appraisal anxiety through communication and collaboration

Alexa Hagen, Hyeeyoung Kim and Olga Virakhovskaya
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Alexa Hagen: Herman Miller, USA
Hyeeyoung Kim: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, USA
Olga Virakhovskaya: Bentley Historical Library, USA

Journal of Digital Media Management, 2020, vol. 8, issue 3, 229-241

Abstract: The University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library (BHL) collects physical and born-digital archival records of the University of Michigan as well as of the State of Michigan, its organisations and its people. To streamline and better inform its processes in order to provide efficient and effective access to digital archival materials, the BHL’s curation team analysed its processes for the technical and intellectual appraisal of records. This article describes the challenges associated with the technical and intellectual appraisal of digital records, analyses the work of a cross-team group of BHL archivists, and makes recommendations for the expedient and informed appraisal of large sets of born-digital records.

Keywords: electronic records; archival appraisal; collaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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