Pacific Islands Anthropology: Archiving Field Materials: Digitzing

Digitization Guidelines & Best Practices:

• University of California Libraries Digital Reformatting Guidelines
• Library of Congress - Personal Digital Archiving (includes instructional videos)
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
  • Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials
• NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials
• Stanford Library - Data Best Practices including filenaming, formats
• Yale University Library - Digital Capture and Retention Guidelines
• Oral History in the Digital Age (IMLS)
• Activits' Guide to Archiving Video (Witness)

Format Types:

• California Digital Library Digital File Format Recommendations (CDL DFFR, August 2011)
• Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications

Digital Preservation, Storage & Back-ups:

• Digital Preservation Handbook - Digital Preservation Coalition
• Digital Preservation 101
• Planning for Digital Preservation: 20 Questions for Providers of Digital Storage Services (NEDCC 2007).

Born-Digital:

• Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Instituional Model for Stewardship (AIMS, 2011)
  • Donor Survey
• Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories (CLIR 2013)
• Erway, Ricky.  Defining Born Digital.  OCLC, 2010.
• Erway, Ricky. 2012. You’ve Got to Walk Before You Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Research. http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-06.pdf.
• Barrera-Gomez, Julianna and Ricky Erway, 2013.  Walk This Way: Detailed Steps for Transferring Born-Digital Content from Media You Can Read In-house, Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Research.  http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2013/2013-02.pdf.
• Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Richard Ovenden, Gabriela Redwine.  Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections (CLIR, 2010).
• Lee, Christopher A., Kam Woods, Matthew Krishenbaum, and Alexandra Chassanoff.  From Bitstreams to Heritage: Putting Digital Forensics into Practice in Collecting Institutions.  2013.

UC San Diego Library Research Data Curation Program

Digital Curation Centre (DCC)