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Digital Archiving
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This is a training workshop on low-cost digital archiving projects for cultural groups and community-based organizations. See digital-archiving-workflow.
Versions: short (3 hrs), long (6 hrs).
Objectives
At the end of the training workshop, the participants shall have
- acquired basic skills to take stock of cultural resources in the community;
- learned to digitally document events and artifacts;
- learned to archive photos, videos, documents, and other digitized/digital resources.
Requirements
- Participants are required to install the apps indicated in the Tools section below BEFORE the workshop.
Tools
Hardware
- a network-enabled laptop or computer desktop for each participant
- smart phones for taking pictures or for scanning of pictures and documents
- flatbed scanner (optional)
Software
- Zotero Stand Alone (and its relevant plugins and connectors) - installed on each computer
- Resilio Sync - installed on each computer
- scanning app on smartphone (ex: Mobile Doc Scanner)
- Eprints repository - for the whole group
Others
- Internet access (recommended)
- account at zotero.org (recommended)
Materials
- media files (pictures, images, video, documents)
- references with DOI, ISBN info
Activities
- creating metadata
- building collection
- syncing collection
- peer-reviewing metadata
- linking files with metadata
- backing up source files, preservation files
- aggregating collections
- repository building
- scanning documents
- referencing in documents
- publishing metadata
- exporting/importing metadata
Core Workshop Outline
1. Workflow and Data Management 2. Zotero and Management of Metadata 2.1. Zotero entries 2.2. tagging and indexing in Zotero 2.3. media types in Zotero 2.4. syncing metadata via Zotero.org 2.5. publishing metadata 3. File Sharing and Backup 3.1. Sharing collection using Resilio Sync 3.2. Backup using Resilio Sync