Hi, I’ve been asked to find a platform for permanent storage of digital documents of a professional association. The documents include published articles and reports and unpublished business documents. We will need at least some of these to be freely accessible to the public (if not all; I’m not sure yet as I don’t have all the material to assess what’s there). We’re looking for a storage solution that will allow long-term preservation and access. I’ve been looking at the National eDeposit, which seems promising, but not so much for the unpublished documents. I don’t think there’s much of a budget. There are so many commercial archiving programs out there, I’m a bit stumped and would appreciate some suggestions and advice – both on specific programs and what to look out for. Thanks!
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Would like to follow this discussion generally as archival responsibilities bleed into daily life by way of DAMS discussions. Yours' would be a common example, increasing as such (all) groups go digital over the last two decades.
(I am involved in a housing co-op and we hold physical records from a 20 year defunct association to develop co-op housing in TAS... social history in boxes in a cupboard)(nice honours project anyone?).
Commercial solutions tend to be commercial solutions answering business needs/outlooks at the time, and I would expect little by way of use of archival standards in first design approaches, but I have not looked at _all_ the commercial offerings... shoe-horn it yourself tends to be the approach even with Museum industry databases, this is good for the trained Archivists looking for a job, but not so great where these approaches would help in the general community, but the computer / programming industry sector is so much bigger than the archival sector this is probably to be expected, just thinking aloud here...
and of course commercial offerings are as likely to become orphanware as anything else
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Operations on a collection of digital assets require the use of a computer application implementing digital asset management (DAM) to ensure that the…
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Would like to follow this discussion generally as archival responsibilities bleed into daily life by way of DAMS discussions. Yours' would be a common example, increasing as such (all) groups go digital over the last two decades.
(I am involved in a housing co-op and we hold physical records from a 20 year defunct association to develop co-op housing in TAS... social history in boxes in a cupboard)(nice honours project anyone?).
Commercial solutions tend to be commercial solutions answering business needs/outlooks at the time, and I would expect little by way of use of archival standards in first design approaches, but I have not looked at _all_ the commercial offerings... shoe-horn it yourself tends to be the approach even with Museum industry databases, this is good for the trained Archivists looking for a job, but not so great where these approaches would help in the general community, but the computer / programming industry sector is so much bigger than the archival sector this is probably to be expected, just thinking aloud here...
and of course commercial offerings are as likely to become orphanware as anything else