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As born-digital archives become business as usual in our institutions how do we ensure that our approaches and workflows are appropriate for all of our collections, regardless of their scale or import? I'm specifically interested in how this applies to accession, appraisal, arrangement, sensitivity review and description. I'd also like to get a sense of how institutions are planning processing projects involving born-digital archives - how much time is factored in for the 'digital activities' and how is that being costed? What do we need to know to plan a project accurately and how feasible is it?

Advocacy & Staffing

Michael Forstrom, Beinecke Library, Yale University (AIMS)

I'm interested in discussing staffing or program models for managing born-digital material in collecting repositories.  As a group I imagine we can identify some  variation in the following: types of institutions, job titles and responsibilities, places in our institutional hierarchies, skill sets and experience, resources (e.g. staff, infrastructure, financial, educational) at our disposal, and so on.  Is there a natural/common evolution to our program development?  Media shows up in collections, accumulates, gets the attention of staff, becomes a part-time responsibility of one staff member... and for how long, until there's a mandate, dedicated expert staff, adequate resources?