Scottish Council on Archives - Policy and process as a gateway to a sustainable digital archive

Join us for the second webinar as part of the Connecting Communities series. These webinars aim to give communities the skills and knowledge they need to create sustainable digital archives that will be preserved for future generations.

This webinar will focus on the documentation required to maintain a digital archive. Focus in many cases is largely on the technical side of digital preservation but the documentation needed to run a preservation workflow is in many ways more important. You will learn what should be documented and suggestions will be give for how this information should be recorded.

Speaker: Karyn Williamson

Karyn holds a master’s degree in Archives and Records Management from the University of Dundee and a Post Grad Cert in Digital Information Management from University College Dublin. She is a Registered Archivist who has worked in various Archives across Scotland. She is currently a Digital Preservation Analyst with the Digital Preservation Coalition. Karyn is a previous ARA Board member, Current Events coordinator for the Business Archive Council Scotland, BAC Trustee, and Campaign Manager for the Explore Your Archive Campaign. Her research interests are outreach and advocacy and open-source digital preservation.

Case Study: tbc

What you will gain:

confidence is developing documentation

About CAHG Scotland:
The aim of CAHG Scotland is to create a self-sustaining network of community archive groups within Scotland, committed to a vision and ethos of collaboration and mutual support. CAHG Scotland listens to and delivers outcomes for communities and heritage organisations based in Scotland, celebrating and highlighting its diversity. The network embraces sharing and providing knowledge, training and best practice whilst supporting and advocating on behalf of community archives and heritage groups.

Scottish Council on Archives and Community Archive Heritage Group Scotland are working with Our Heritage Our Stories, a project led by University of Glasgow, part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded programme, Towards a National Collection (TaNC).

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