FW: [saaleaderlist] Managing Electronic Records and Assets: a Bibliography

• Date:   Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:54:23 -0400
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• From:   Janice Goldblum   < JGoldblu AT nas.edu >
• Subject:   FW: [saaleaderlist] Managing Electronic Records and Assets: a Bibliography
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Message from SAA Technology Best Practices Taskforce:


Subject: [saaleaderlist] Managing Electronic Records and Assets: a Bibliography

Forwarded on behalf of Naomi Nelson
Chair, SAA Technology Best Practices Task Force (BPTF)

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Dear SAA Leaders:

As a result of the Society of American Archivists' Council's 
strategic planning efforts in technology, a Technology Best Practices 
Taskforce was formed in September 2006 to work with appropriate SAA and 
ARMA groups to identify competences and standards and to collect, 
review and clarify best practices relating to all areas of archival 
practice that are affected by electronic records and digital asset 
issues.

It is hoped that Task Force's work will result in the development, 
acceptance and implementation by archivists, records managers and 
IT professionals of widely accepted standards for archival functions 
(e.g. accessioning, appraisal, arrangement and description, preservation 
and access) for born-digital and digitized archival assets utilizing 
readily available tools.

Through surveys of appropriate sources, the Task Force has 
produced a document that will serve as a beginning called 
"Managing Electronic Records and Assets: a Bibliography."  It 
can be found on the SAA website at http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/bptf/.  
We are now soliciting comments and suggestions for improvement.  Please 
send feedback to techBPTF@lists.archivists.org.  

We request that leaders within SAA and ARMA help to promote the 
site and circulate this call for comment and additions.   Help us 
to make "Managing Electronic Records and Assets" a compilation of 
proven sites, handbooks, articles, case studies and other sources 
to support best practices research.  Elements to consider include:

-- What sources have you found most helpful in your work 
	with electronic records and assets?  (Annotations indicating w
	hy the source was helpful are appreciated.)
-- What can the source teach us?
-- Have the solutions provided by the source had an impact on 
	archival practice?
-- Does the source have good documentation of technical systems 
	and applications?
-- Was the solution proposed by the source a success and what are the 
	characteristics of the success?

This call for review and comment will enhance professional 
practice through the on-going identification and evaluation of 
electronic records and digital asset management solutions.  We 
welcome comments at techBPTF@lists.archivists.org.

Naomi Nelson (chair)
Phil Bantin
Pam Duane (ARMA)
Mark Greene
Richard Pearce-Moses
Carla Summers
Nancy Zimmelman
Brian Doyle (SAA staff representative)

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