Additional comments received: This field would work for us where we only hold digital copies of analogue originals held elsewhere – and this is our...
Additional comments received: Didn’t see overlap so much. We interpret scheduling actions to do with de-accessioning rather than planned...
Additional comments received: We prefer date created as cannot argue that intention to create existed then. Is best indicator of when the record...
Additional comments received: Have already had the experience of failure to ingest due to excessive length of original file names necessitating...
Additional comments received: Reference as unique identifier often does not reflect hierarchy – many repositories maintain physical control with the...
We also had a question about databases: if the digital record was a database or dataset, where would you put or construct the data dictionary (the...
Additional comments received: There were reservations about putting an audit trail of preservation actions in the archive history field. For one...
Additional comments received: -The idea of a pop-up asking users to enter or confirm dates if they’ve looked at an item (p.8) was intriguing and...
Additional comments received: The point about having multiple identifiers could maybe stress more the need for human readable identifiers as well as...
Identifying for what purpose the record was created might be helpful. If it was intended to be released/published online (or in any other form, for...
Would it be appropriate for time based media/audio visual records to include duration/running time of a video or sound files here?
We need to unambiguously identify the creator if at all possible and we need to treat them as an entity, outside of the archive that we are...
It makes me wonder if 'predominantly' would be of practical help. If a researcher knows an archive is predominantly in English, that's really...
We need to be able to add any relevant references, and therefore the type of reference should be a mandatory part of the description, because that...
How many different kinds of reference code are we dealing with? In my workplace, the types of reference that users may encounter are: - Our current...
I agree with Jenny that it could be useful to think more about which elements are likely to be appropriate for populating with...
I thoroughly agree with Jane here.
The points about online publication and linking to websites are very true but not unique to catalogue entries for born-digital materials.
Here and in 3.5.1, is 'out with' meant to be 'outwith'? This is really hard to follow for those of us from areas where this word isn't commonly...
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In January 2013, a conversation was initiated under the aegis of the Section for Archives and Technology which became known as the Descriptive Standards Roundtable. Over the past three years UK archives practitioners have been brought together under this umbrella on a number of occasions (UKAD Forums 2013 and 2014, ARA Conferences 2013 and 2014 and a special event on Cataloguing Born Digital Material held in November 2014) to discuss the issues and challenges that are arising as cataloguing practice evolves in the face of born digital material. As a result of these meetings, a consensus was reached as to the main issues arising in this area. This consensus is summarised in the issues log and the record of the November event. In both documents the need to address the adaption of ISAD(G) – as the most explicit manifestation of cataloguing best practice – to born digital material has been raised. To this end a speed writing event was held at a UKAD Workshop in London on 18th March 2016, which resulted in a draft document being produced.
Thanks are due to all those who attended the Workshop; Anne Archer, Robert Baxter, Jenny Bunn, Jone Garmendia, Jane Harrison, Penny Hutchins, Rachel MacGregor, Melissa McGreechan, Joanne Norledge, Christopher Olver, Jessica Scantlebury, Alison Smith, Matti Watton, Cathy Williams and Simon Wilson. Also to Victoria Sloyan at the Wellcome for sharing their Cataloguing Guidelines and examples of catalogue entries for born digital material.
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Contribute to the Best Guess Guidelines for Cataloguing Born Digital Material
Wednesday, 20 April 2016 18:00 by Jenny Bunn