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| Comprehensive understanding of the extent of Houghton’s born-digital holdings | - Survey of born-digital materials
- Concurrent plan for describing these holdings where they are currently hidden
- Plan for documenting these formats in library systems moving forward
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| Collection development policies that include born-digital materials | - Updated/newly created collection development document (what we collect, in what formats, what is outside of scope)
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| Documentation for Collections division to use when working with donors/dealers | - “How to talk to donors” cheat sheet
- “How to talk to dealers” cheatsheet, acquisition agreements (or riders) that encompass open access and use policies for born-digital materials
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| Ability to safely and securely transfer born-digital content from donors to Houghton temporary storage | - Good practices for transfer of born digital materials in a variety of formats including: hard drives, flash drives, disks; cloud-based files, email, websites, and social media; submission to DRS of disk images as opaque objects (until disk image content model is developed)
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| A comprehensive and integrated program for accessioning, arranging, describing, preserving and providing access to born digital content | - Policies on access and use; policies on creation of normalized documents; long-term storage solution
- Workflows for accessioning, arrangement and description, long-term preservation, and access
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| Staffing model and training needs outlined | - Workflows documented, resources list for training
- Policies on section/department roles
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| Systems development needs outlined (in conjunction with other Harvard repositories) | - Recommendations for enhancements to existing systems (e.g., DRS integration with ArchivesSpace or via Preservica)
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