Best Practices

This space is reserved for the sharing of best practices documents such as policies, workflows, documentation, etc. Please try to group them according to function as is possible.

I benefited tremendously by reading the "Workbook on Digital Private Papers" created by Susan Thomas from Oxford. Here is the link: http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/workbook/index.html

Peter Chan, Digital Archivist (AIMS), Stanford University

Project Documentation

• City of Vancouver's Digital Archives System development wiki: Vancouver Digital Archives. The most recent addition is the section on SIP creation. Documentation lags a bit behind our actual development, but the requirements and workflows are mostly up to date. A lot of our work was co-opted and moved to the Archivematica wiki if it applied to the projects as a whole. For instance, we worked with Artefactual to develop the media type preservation plans using the City Archives' wiki, but moved the results once we'd settled on plans for the release.