Born-digital workflows CURATEcamp 2015, Rockefeller Archive Center workflow overview

1. Arrangement &
Description for Born
Digital Materials
Bonnie Gordon & Hillel Arnold
Rockefeller Archive Center

2. Overview
★ Overall workflow
★ Forensic Toolkit (FTK) to ArchivesSpace
★ Archivematica to ArchivesSpace
★ ArchivesSpace to DIMES (XTF)

3. Institutional context
★ “Regular” archivists work with born
digital
★ Digital archivists (D-Team) provide
support

4. Overall workflow

6. Taconic Foundation records
★ Paper & digital
from 1958 - 2013
★ 96.6 cubic feet
★ 1.2 GB, 898 files

7. FTK to ArchivesSpace

9. FTK reports

10. To ArchivesSpace
★ XSL:FO to EAD
★ Series & file level description
★ Extent
★ Restrictions

12. Archivematica to
ArchivesSpace

14. Archivematica transfer and ingest
★ Transfer and ingest microservices
★ UUIDs generated

15. Creating PREMIS rights statements
“Officers’ diaries are open for scholarly research
provided that (1) the diarist is deceased and (2) the
volume to be examined is at least twenty years old. All
reasonable efforts will be made to determine the fate
of the diarist(s), but if such efforts are fruitless then the
material will remain closed to scholarly research until
100 years after the officer’s year of birth.”

16. Creating PREMIS rights statements
★ Google form to capture structured data
★ Local PREMIS implementation
documentation

17. Matching to existing description
★ Archivematica integration via
ArchivesSpace API
★ Associates digital object with existing
description in ArchivesSpace
○ Digital Object record
○ Digital Object link (instance)

19. ArchivesSpace to DIMES

21. Linked exports
EAD
★ Contextual description
★ Physical instance containers
METS
★ Born-digital/digitized file structure
★ Descriptive metadata (MODS)

22. Public discovery
★ EAD and METS indexed in DIMES (XTF)
★ Born-digital and digitized objects hosted
on separate VM
★ Archivematica UUIDs link images to
description

23. Linked via Archivematica UUIDs

24. METS display (very preliminary)

26. Resources
★ Archivematica/ArchivesSpace/DIMES
screencasts: http://bit.ly/rac-screencasts
★ Bonnie: bgordon@rockarch.org
★ Hillel: harnold@rockarch.org