2. +
Experience
Abbey Theatre, Gate Theatre,
Michael O’Shaughnessy Engineering
archive, Éamon de Buitléar archive,
Tim Robinson maps
Audio, video, photos, negatives,
scripts, set designs, posters….
U2, Gorillaz, Joe Strummer Archive –
Photos, audio, video, costume,
documents, digitisation and born
digital content.
Traditional Archives – 200+ projects /
21 years
9. +What archivists are
taught to do…
• Appraisal
• De-metalling
• Surface Cleaning
• Disposing of duplicates
• Arrangement
• Listing
• Reboxing / new folders /
plastiklips
• Descriptive List goes in
research room
• Researcher requests
items from storage
10. +
Problems:
Slow – 12.7 hours per cubic foot
Original arrangement destroyed
Irreversible
Limits researcher choices
11. +
More Product, Less Process
Mark A. Greene & Dennis Meissner, 2005
Asked questions of the archival profession
12.
13.
14.
15. +
MPLP with Digitisation
•Non invasive – physical arrangement stays the
same
•Fast – description is ‘adequate’
•OCR / category / date enable quick searches
•Material can be browsed visually by researchers
16. +
Access and Preservation
•Access by multiple researchers
•National / International access
•Promotion of new sources
•Access to rare/damaged/bulky
materials
•Much faster than cataloguing
•Digital preservation
•Data Protection / Copyright Protection
•Release Scheduling
19. +
BBC Micro with Laserdisc technology – cutting edge in
1986.
Unreadable by 2002. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/mar/03/res
earch.elearning
BBC
Domesday
Project
20. +
Standards
Library of Congress
Federal Agencies Digitisation Guidelines
Initiative – FADGI
Irish Manuscripts Commission Digitisation
Policy
DRI Resources
Successful Projects – talk to NUI Galway
21. +
Its happening anyway…
Archivists can either Lead or be
ignored.
Key tasks are what we’re good at
– categorising, handling, quality
control
If we don’t do it, someone who
doesn’t know what they’re doing
will
Training needs to change
22.
23. + Martin Bradley
Get in touch with me at info@archives.ie
Link me at Linkedin -
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/martin-
bradley/1/176/56
