I am actively working with born digital records in a special collections archives right now, and one of the issues I continue with is how best to provide online access for researchers to view born digital records. Although we receive digital images, I am more focused on databases, textual documents like e-mail and items created in word processing software like Microsoft Word.
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#1 by Lauren Pressley on March 2, 2011 - 9:16 pm
I am very interested in this idea. I’m not in archives, but I do work in a library, and I think this is one of the major information issues libraries should be thinking about today. I could see it expand, too, to how do we collect digital records, and how can we create institutional/organizational strategies for planning what to collect.
#2 by randygue on March 3, 2011 - 6:27 am
I am also very interested in this idea. I would like to know about the practical (well – impractical) side of your work – are you thinking about redacting email addresses (and things like that) before you provide access to the emails and other bothersome born digital details.