Thinking about slogging through hundreds of archival research photographs? Dreading organizing all of your sources? In this episode I discuss digital tools for organizing archival research. I talk about ways to manage citations, archival images, transcription, and metadata. I would love to hear about what other strategies folks use to manage their archival research, leave … Continue reading Historical Reminiscents EP 22: Tools For Organizing Archival Research
The Cleanup Rabbit Hole
Recently I've been working on a fairly large archival cleanup project. This project involves overhauling the arrangement of a collection, updating physical processing to meet our internal standards, and improving metadata online to improve accessibility of the material. This type of cleanup work can be hugely time consuming and it often reminds me of diving … Continue reading The Cleanup Rabbit Hole
The Battle of Standardization
My recent foray into the archival world has provided me with a renewed appreciation for standardization of descriptive techniques. Rules for Archival Description (RAD) is a national (Canadian) set of rules for archival description. The first edition of RAD was established in the 1990s and has since become common place in most quality archives in … Continue reading The Battle of Standardization
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