Description

This exercise asks students to walk through the steps outlined in the OSSArcFlow Guide to Documenting Born-Digital Archival Workflows. The guide assists collecting institutions to begin documenting their born-digital workflows and map them to functional entities in the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). The discussion questions encourage students to think about the differences between an OAIS model and an OSSArcFlow model in terms of their functions and audiences.

The exercise and discussion questions are available for free download as a PDF or Google Doc, below.

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Lesson plan/materials

Learning objectives

This learning object might be used in a lesson to satisfy the following learning objectives:

• Design a born-digital archiving workflow.

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The BitCuratorEdu project was an effort (2018-2022) funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to study and advance the adoption of digital forensics tools and methods in libraries and archives through professional education efforts. This project was a partnership between Educopia Institute and the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, along with the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) and several Masters-level programs in library and information science.