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Like many of our archivist colleagues, the D-Team is gearing up for the Society of American Archivists’ Annual Meeting, held this year in Atlanta, Georgia. If you’re interested in catching up with us there, here are some of the things we’ll be doing:

This week I had the opportunity to attend the Born Digital Archiving eXchange hosted by Stanford University.  It was a really great unconference that brought together digital archivists, curators, and others working to preserve and provide access to born-digital archives.

We’re now a few months into our Digital Processing Project, which I wrote about back in April for the blog of SAA’s Electronic Records Section. By the end of this project, RAC processing archivists will have the tools, workflows and competencies needed to process digital materials. Through this, we will be able to preserve and provide access to unique born digital content stored on obsolete and decaying media.

Earlier this year, the Rockefeller Archive started a multi-year plan to re-envision its digitization activities. The goal of this project is to contribute to the RAC’s mission of preserving and providing access to our collections as widely as possible by making digitized content findable, usable, and accessible in a timely manner. In order to achieve this goal, we will provide archivists with the tools, experience, and competencies to handle any digitization request that comes to the RAC, whether it is from a researcher, donor, or other staff member. On top of these tools and competencies, we will create mechanisms for prioritizing requests for in-house and outsourced digitization. 

As the newest member of the Processing Team, I have been working on writing a DACS compliance evaluation script called DACSspace. Creating this tool came with a lot of “firsts” - this was my first experience writing code as well as interacting with an API. After a successful (yet sometimes frustrating) three months, I am excited to introduce DACSspace to the archival community and share a reflection of my work.

To view DACSspace on GitHub click here.