Technology and Digital

TECHNOLOGY - GENERAL

• SAA College & University Archives Section: Archival Horizons Toolkit - resources relating to born digital archives, content management systems, email archiving, and web archiving
• SAA Collection Management Section
  • Collection Management (CM) Documentation Portal - documentation for various CM tools/systems
  • Content Management System Repository Profiles - "about the implementation and use of an archival collection management system (CMS) or digital asset management system (DAMS) at a specific institution," submitted 2009-2022
• If you're a section member and are logged in, also check out our 2018 and 2019 listserv conversations on collection management software.

TECHNOLOGY - EAD

• SAA Encoded Archival Standards Section: Recommended Tools and Resources page - "links to tools and resources, such as EAD validators, free XML editing software, convertors, web applications, and others recommended by the EAS Section"
• SAA Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS): Encoded Archival Description (EAD) page - EAD3 documentation as approved in July 2015
• If you're a section member and are logged in, also check our 2018 listserv conversation on MARC records for archives collections.

TECHNOLOGY - METADATA

• SAA Metadata and Digital Object Section
  • Educational Resources page - "The purpose of this page is to provide a list of online educational resources for metadata and digital objects. This includes standards and best practices, scholarly articles, blogs, conference presentations, and networks and communities of practice."
  • Metadata Samples
• Digital Public Library of America (DPLA): Using Metadata to Describe Digital Content (2015) *
• Getty Institute: Introduction to Metadata (2016) *

DIGITAL PRESERVATION

• SAA Electronic Records Section: "bloggERS!" Wordpress site (2023)
• SAA Museum Archives Section: Born-Digital and Digitization page - policies and procedures for preservation, accessioning/ingest, file formats, websites, etc.
• Digital Preservation Coalition: Digital Preservation Handbook (2015) *
• LA as Subject: Archives at Risk Help Desk - "Conservation/Preservation-Digital" section *
• MD5summer: Windows MD5 sum generator (c. 2000s) *
• Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC): Reformatting - Digital Preservation *
• Recollection Wisconsin: Digital Readiness Toolkit (2022) *
• Sustainable Heritage Network: "Introduction to Digital Preservation" (2021) *

DIGITIZATION

• SAA Solo Archivists Section, "Small Digitization Projects" presentations (2024) - see recordings for Part 1 and for Part 2
• SAA Solo Archivists Section (formerly Lone Arrangers Section), "Basics of a Digitization Project for Lone Arrangers" (2014) - webinar
• Digital Public Library of America (DPLA): Selecting Content for a Digitization Project (2015) *
• Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative: Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials (2016) *
• LA as Subject: Archives at Risk Help Desk - "Digitization" section *
• Library of Congress: Collections Care - Digitizing Guidelines *
• NEDCC: Reformatting - Outsourcing and Vendor Relations (c. 2002) *
• Sustainable Heritage Network: "Digitization Project Decision-Making: Starting a Digitization Project" *
• South Central Regional Library Council: Questions to Ask Before Starting a Digitization Project *
• If you're a section member and are logged in, also check out our past listserv conversations on flatbed scanners (2018), film digitization (2019), and file formats for newspaper/yearbook scanning (2019).