By Daniel Johnson and Seth Anderson
This post is the seventeenth in a bloggERS series about access to born-digital materials.
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Contemplating how to provide access to born-digital materials? Wondering how to meet researcher needs for accessing and analyzing files? We are too! Join us for a Twitter chat on providing access to born digital records. This chat will help inform the Born Digital Access Bootcamp: A Collaborative Learning Forum at the New England Archivists spring meeting.
*When?* Thursday February, 16 at 2:00pm and 9:00pm EST
*How?* Follow #bdaccess for the discussion
*Who?* Information professionals, researchers, and anyone else interested in managing or using born-digital records
Newly-conceived #bdaccess chats are organized by an ad-hoc group that formed at the 2015 SAA annual meeting. We are currently developing a bootcamp to share ideas and tools for providing access to born-digital materials and have teamed up with the Digital Library Federation to spread the word about the project. Information and a Storify about our previous Twitter chat is available in a previous bloggERS post.
Understanding how researchers want to access and use digital archives is key to our curriculum’s success, so we’re taking it to the Twitter streets to gather feedback from practitioners and researchers. The following five questions will guide the discussion:
Q1. _What is your biggest barrier to providing #bdaccess to material?
Q2. _What do you most want to learn about providing #bdaccess?
Q3. _What factors and priorities (whether format-based, administrative, etc) motivate your institution to provide #bdaccess?
Q4. _Have you conducted user testing on any of your #bdaccess mechanisms?
Q5. _Who do you rely on in providing #bdaccess or in planning to do so?
Q6. _Would you be willing to showcase your methods of #bdaccess at the NEA Bootcamp?
Can’t join the chat on 2/16/2017 ? Follow #bdaccess for ongoing discussion and future chats!
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Daniel Johnson is the digital preservation librarian at the University of Iowa, exploring, adapting, and implementing digital preservation policies and strategies for the long-term protection and access to digital materials.
Seth Anderson is the project manager of the MoMA Electronic Records Archive initiative, overseeing the implementation of policy, procedures, and tools for the management and preservation of the Museum of Modern Art’s born-digital records.
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