Videos

Session 2.2 - Next generation of digital archives William Magarey West. Adelaide Oval (Australia) 00:00:00 - 00:22:34 a. A Pacific Digital Archive. Designing to connect diverse and dispersed people and taonga. Presentation Slides: https://www.archivists.org.au/documen... Mark Crookston This presentation outlines where the humans are in the thinking and plans behind the Pacific Digital Archive concept, within the context of the new Pacific Libraries Network, and how it may connect diverse and dispersed people with dispersed taonga (collections) 00:22:35 - 00:48:07 b. Digital stewardship from start to finish: decision-making and workflows for born-digital content Presentation Slides: https://www.archivists.org.au/documen... Somaya Langley The Digital Stewardship End-to-End Workflow Model and the Digital Streams Matrix – developed as part of the Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge project – are two tools that can be used by archivists and collecting institutions to assist in handling born-digital content. The model outlines fourteen stages that digital content passes through (from conception to use and/or reuse). The matrix provides a practical mechanism for applying the model, guiding decision-making when stewarding digital content. 00:48:08 - 01:19:13 c. Accessibility for data analysis: Using digital tools to unlock archives potential Presentation Slides: https://www.archivists.org.au/documen... Kathryn Dan - Ingrid Mason The Noel Butlin Archives Centre holds ledgers of the daily Sydney Stock Exchange stock and share lists from 1871 to 1987 - a rich concentration of data about the Australian economy. This session outlines an innovative project to unlock the data analysis potential from business archives by converting handwritten ledgers to machine manipulable data using an iterative and experimental approach: digitising archives, manipulating digital images, using crowd-sourced transcription and automated handwriting recognition software. 01:19:14 - 01:28:39 Question Time Designing the Archive was an international archives conference presented by the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA), Archives and Records Association of New Zealand Te Huinga Mahara (ARANZ), the International Council on Archives (ICA) and the Pacific Regional Branch International Council on Archives (PARBICA). It was held at the Adelaide Oval from 21 - 25 October 2019. Info: https://www.archivists.org.au/confere...