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Beginning in 2009, Archon and Archivists' Toolkit (a similar tool) began the process of merging the two platforms. [5] This new software, ArchivesSpace , was developed in 2012-2013 and had a 1.0 release in September 2013. [6] As of January 2014, Archon became unsupported software and the project was merged with ArchivesSpace. [7]
Archivists must document and make discoverable the actions they take on records. Archival description is accessible. Archival description should be easy to use, re-use, and share. Each collection within a repository must have an archival description. Archivists must have a user-driven reason to enhance existing archival description.
The Society of American Archivists is the oldest and largest archivist association in North America, serving the educational and informational needs of more than 5,000 individual archivist and institutional members. Established in 1936, the organization serves upwards of 6,200 individual and member institutions.
Governments, archivists, and international organizations recognized that safeguarding archives was essential to ensuring historical continuity amid geopolitical shifts and post-war recovery. The establishment of the International Council on Archives (ICA) arose from these collective efforts, driven by the need to manage archival materials ...
Helen Ruth Tibbo (born 1955) is an American archivist, professor and author writing about digital preservation in the archival profession. [1] At the University of North Carolina, she created and directed the first American master's degree on digital curation. [2] She is a past President of the Society of American Archivists [2]
An archivist is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to records and archives determined to have long-term value. Some of the people listed here were not professional but amateur archivists, although their archivist activities preserved large amounts or important data.
Toolkit III, Ultrasoft (Martin Berndt) Touch Typist (Typing tutor), Sector Software, 1985; Transfer Utility, Digital Precision; TURBO (SuperBASIC compiler), Digital Precision, 1987; TURBO TOOLKIT, Digital Precision, 1987
The first step in archival processing is to survey the collection. The goal of a survey is to gain an understanding of the originator, determine the context of the creation of the collection, to observe the material's overall size and scope, to ascertain if the collection has access limitations, to locate any existing finding aids submitted with the collection, and to discover any underlying ...