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Breaking down barriers: Stewardship of born-digital materials at Columbia University’s special collections repositories
Journal of Digital Media Management,
8
(4),
310-320
(2020)
Abstract
Over the past ten years, Columbia University has completed a number of successful high-profile projects to preserve and publish digital materials. However, up to now, the work on curating and archiving born-digital assets has remained largely project-based and not routinised or scalable. Columbia University’s Born Digital Strategic Initiative Team was tasked with assessing Columbia University Libraries’ approach to collecting born-digital content and making recommendations on how to operationalise that work so that acquiring, processing and providing access to digital assets becomes as routine as going through all these steps with paper-based library collections. This article shares the methodology used by the team to analyse the current situation and develop recommendations for the future.
Keywords: project management; workflows; methodology; collaboration; gap analysis; strategic initiatives
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Author's Biography
Dina Sokolova is a Digital Preservation Librarian at Columbia University Libraries. Her role incorporates the development of digital preservation workflows, policies and procedures as well as acquisition, assessment, metadata capturing and creation, and the long-term management of born-digital and digitised materials. Dina holds a BS/MS in microelectronic engineering and earned her MLIS from Long Island University.
Jane Gorjevsky is the Head of Collections Management at Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscript Library. Prior to her work at Columbia, Jane was an institutional archivist for the March of Dimes foundation. Jane has an MA in history and MA in archival management and historical editing, both from New York University, and BS in applied mathematics and statistics from SUNY, Stony Brook.
