Born-Digital Goals

Goals	Deliverables
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
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)
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
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)
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
Staffing model and training needs outlined	Workflows documented, resources list for training Policies on section/department roles
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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