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Fri, Nov 01, 2013
Briscoe Library
San Antonio, TX
What do you need to know to preserve born-digital materials successfully once they’ve crossed the archives threshold? With an emphasis on modern records and technology, you’ll learn about the concepts and competencies you need to construct and administer digital archives. You’ll examine accepted digital archives models and implementations and emerging standards of practice, as well as preservation metadata schemas and their use in digital archives.
Upon completion of this course you’ll be abel to:
- Explain what it means to preserve digital materials and describe how these concepts map onto traditional archival practice;
- Consider significant properties of modern digital materials (such as e-mail and IM); social networking media, websites, blogs, and wikis; word processing documents, spreadsheets, and databases and the challenges associated with preserving them; and
- Apply digital preservation concepts to specific archives collections through case studies and exercises.
| Course Format: | On Site |
| Address: | Briscoe Library San Antonio, TX |
| Duration: | 8 Hours |
| Audience Category: | Archivists, records managers, and other information professionals who are or will be responsible for the preservation of born-digital materials. |
| Level: | Intermediate |
| Instructor(s): | Kelcy Shepherd |
| Maximum Attendees: | 30 |
| Cost Range: | $185-285 |
| Provider: | The Society for American Archivists |
| Sponsored by: | The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Briscoe Library |
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This information is provided as a convenience for informational purposes only; it does not constitute an endorsement by the Library of Congress.
