Acquisition & Ingest

INLS 525: Managing Electronic Records

Week 11 (3/26)

Working w/ Producers

• What do they have?
• Where do they keep it?
• What do they want to give us?
• What do we want to receive/keep?
• How do we get it in the most effective manner?

Acquisition Checklist

• Initial Collection Review
• Privacy & Intellectual Property
• Negotiation
• Transfer
• Post Acquisition

Push v. Pull

• Who initiates transfer?
• How frequently?
• How do we account for versioning?

Digital Transfers

• Push
  • Email
  • Drop-boxes
  • Document Sharing
• Pull
  • On-site copying
  • Borrowing credentials
  • Authorized services (e.g. ThinkUp)
  • Harvesting

Acquiring media

You've Got to Walk Before You Can Run:
First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media

Forensics Workflows

Gengenbach, Martin J. "'The Way We Do It Here' Mapping Digital Forensics Workflows in Collecting Institutions." Aug. 2012.

• Fig 5. The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) (pg. 52)
• Fig 4. Duke University Archives (pg. 47)
• Fig 2. Yale Manuscripts and Archives (pg. 36)
• Fig 8. University of Virginia Libraries (pg. 67)
• Fig 3. City of Vancouver Archives (pg. 42)