tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479757307568145576.post7084564420919792289..comments2024-03-04T23:57:43.870-05:00Comments on Bentley Historical Library Curation Team Blog: Separation Anxiety!University of Michigan Bentley Historical Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09456699983075988941noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479757307568145576.post-87847918598433913302015-07-15T23:21:21.006-04:002015-07-15T23:21:21.006-04:00Thanks for reading and your great questions, Kari!...Thanks for reading and your great questions, Kari!<br /><br />In response to your first question, in our emerging ASpace-Archivematica workflow, an 'initial appraisal' would probably occur in the field (prior to accession) or as we are creating transfers in Archivematica to send content into the backlog ("yes, include this; no, don't include that"). In the latter case, we would manually create a deaccession record in ASpace. We're aiming to be as flexible as possible in our development work and so it probably ultimately comes down to how an institution structures its workflows and establishes conventions for recording such information. <br /><br />For question two: yes, we want do want to make sure that the original context/directory structure of materials is documented/maintained in some way. Our most recent conversations have surfaced the idea of including output from the 'tree' command, though a DROID report could also be useful in that regard. <br /><br />In our current non-Archivematica workflow, we are packaging content in .zip files for deposit in our DSpace repository. If a subfolder is being packaged, we include any parent directories so that once researchers download and extract content from the zip, they can see the whole directory structure and better understand the context in which materials were created or maintained. ...or at least that's what we hope for. I'd love to hear from you (or anyone else) as to the best way to document and convey to researchers the provenance and original order of digital archives when they are placed in a digital repository environment! <br /><br />Thanks again--Mike Shallcrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242069562154935974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479757307568145576.post-20262586908710273872015-07-14T09:17:44.348-04:002015-07-14T09:17:44.348-04:00Is it possible to note when the deaccession has ha...Is it possible to note when the deaccession has happened during initial apprasial or during later-on processing? I think that will be important to note.<br />Also, are you thinking of retaining a trace of the original material (like a DROID report without hashes) that shows the file/folder structure and filenames before apprasial / deletion? - Kari Smith, MIT Institute Archives.K Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10542392181766503960noreply@blogger.com