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Simon Wilson
Digital Archivist (AIMS Project)
Hull History Centre

Alison Hinderliter

I'm Alison Hinderliter, Manuscripts and Archives Librarian at the Newberry Library, Chicago. I was very fortunate to have attended Matt Kirschenbaum and Naomi Nelson's Rare Book School class last summer on Born Digital Materials, and after that class I was able to go back to the Newberry and begin relevant conversations with materials donors, researchers, and staff. I am very interested in the full package of digital materials curation, from outreach and accessioning through appraisal, processing, description, and delivery. Most of this archival workflow is still in the theoretical stages at my institution, due to staff and budget restraints - my experience has been with the donor relations and appraisal part of the large puzzle thus far. I know that collaboration with other institutions will be key to the Newberry's flourishing on the digital curation front.  As an aside, having a music background, I am also very interested in preservation of born-digital music-related materials, including recorded sound and musical notation software preservation.

I am very honored to be a part of this important symposium and I hope to be able to contribute something useful in terms of best practices for donor relations / interviews, accessioning, and appraisal.  At the end of this month I am attending the Midwest Archives Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, where there will be several sessions on different aspects of managing digital collections. I will be glad to share what I learn there with this group. Furthermore, I'm attending the DigCCurr symposium in Chapel Hill immediately following this symposium.... anyone else?
http://www.midwestarchives.org/assets/documents/2011_annual_program_low_res.pdf
http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr/institute.html

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