Breaking down barriers: Stewardship of born-digital materials at Columbia University’s special collections repositories

Dina Sokolova and Jane Gorjevsky
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Dina Sokolova: Columbia University Libraries, USA
Jane Gorjevsky: Columbia University Libraries, USA

Journal of Digital Media Management, 2020, vol. 8, issue 4, 310-320

Abstract: Over the past ten years, Columbia University has completed a number of successful high-profile projects to preserve and publish digital materials. However, up to now, the work on curating and archiving born-digital assets has remained largely project-based and not routinised or scalable. Columbia University’s Born Digital Strategic Initiative Team was tasked with assessing Columbia University Libraries’ approach to collecting born-digital content and making recommendations on how to operationalise that work so that acquiring, processing and providing access to digital assets becomes as routine as going through all these steps with paper-based library collections. This article shares the methodology used by the team to analyse the current situation and develop recommendations for the future.

Keywords: project management; workflows; methodology; collaboration; gap analysis; strategic initiatives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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