{"title":"CONTENTdm to Digital Commons: Considerations and Workflows","authors":"A. Mita, Zachary Pelli, K. Reamer, S. Ince","doi":"10.1080/15332748.2019.1609308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332748.2019.1609308","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This case study details Seton Hall University (SHU) Libraries’ decision to end its subscription to CONTENTdm, the selection process for a replacement digital asset management system (Digital Commons), and the challenges and solutions associated with migration. It outlines workflows for migrating image collections from CONTENTdm to Digital Commons, which include the use of Python scripts to harvest and rename JPEG images from CONTENTdm via its API. This case study is useful for institutions that do not have access to master files or metadata for rebuilding collections and must therefore rely upon content stored in CONTENTdm as their only image sources.","PeriodicalId":35382,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archival Organization","volume":"15 1","pages":"58 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332748.2019.1609308","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48458841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Security, Archivists, and Digital Collections","authors":"D. R. Donaldson, Laura Bell","doi":"10.1080/15332748.2019.1609311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332748.2019.1609311","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article presents results from an exploratory survey of 15 archivists, librarians, directors, and technicians regarding the security of digital collections. Participants defined security in terms of integrity, confidentiality, availability, detecting malicious actors, protection from physical damage, and protection from viruses. Findings suggest that while some participants reported encountering security threats related to confidentiality and availability, others reported that they either had not encountered any security threats or did not know if they had. This paper concludes by considering archivists’ knowledge of securing digital collections and their collaboration with IT staff. Future directions for research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":35382,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archival Organization","volume":"15 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332748.2019.1609311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42589688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archival Copies: An Evolutionary Journey","authors":"Miriam B. Kahn","doi":"10.1080/15332748.2019.1609312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332748.2019.1609312","url":null,"abstract":"There are a broad variety and types of materials and media found in archives. However, more astounding are the variety of copies and copying methods that exist in our collections of “unique” materi...","PeriodicalId":35382,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archival Organization","volume":"15 1","pages":"71 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332748.2019.1609312","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46328919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review","authors":"Celeste Brewer","doi":"10.1080/15332748.2019.1633491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332748.2019.1633491","url":null,"abstract":"rhetoric of “datafication” in academic discourse, and the concurrent push in records management to define records as a subset of data. Yeo’s argument is at its shakiest here. He insists on a rudimentary interpretation of the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of data, using the term’s origins in empiricism to cast data themselves as “uncritical notions of fact” (p. 116). Yeo’s equally uncritical acceptance of this definition in corporate and government environments is a less than compelling way of differentiating data from records. Here, he reaches too far to highlight differences between the two concepts, though a more nuanced analysis of their credible similarities might be more effective. Fortunately, Yeo returns to more solid theoretical ground to defend records as “persistent representations” and to reiterate the centrality of social and cultural constructs to record-keeping. He asserts, “When a record is inscribed and communicated, what takes place is not a matter of information, but a matter of social action” (p. 152). While Yeo accepts that information might serve as an affordance of a record, he holds that a record is more immediately a tangible part of a social fabric of rights and obligations than information, and less a physical byproduct of empiricism to be manipulated, controlled, and corrected than data. The result is a compelling defense of the record against the encroaching rhetoric of an informational paradigm that values views and clicks over authenticity and understanding.","PeriodicalId":35382,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archival Organization","volume":"15 1","pages":"88 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332748.2019.1633491","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45728111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moral Rights and Archives","authors":"Jean E. Dryden","doi":"10.1080/15332748.2018.1563745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332748.2018.1563745","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35382,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archival Organization","volume":"15 1","pages":"78 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332748.2018.1563745","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44224559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hamlin Garland Papers: Adapting Former Processing Activities to New Contexts","authors":"Bolton Doub, R. Mandell","doi":"10.1080/15332748.2018.1502009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332748.2018.1502009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Hamlin Garland papers first came to the University of Southern California (USC) in 1940 and since then, various library staff, researchers, and student workers have applied different and sometimes conflicting processing strategies over a period of almost 80 years. In 2017, a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant made possible the digitization and description of Garland’s correspondence. This gave current USC archivists the opportunity to address some of the issues and threats facing the Garland papers, while also providing new methods of access and discovery to this valuable collection.","PeriodicalId":35382,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archival Organization","volume":"14 1","pages":"139 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332748.2018.1502009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48829801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Control: Accessioning Practices for Extensible Archival Management","authors":"Rachel Searcy","doi":"10.1080/15332748.2018.1517292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332748.2018.1517292","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Accessioning has long been one of our profession’s least visible, discussed, and critically examined activities. This article analyzes our scholarly literature on the subject, revealing an absent theoretical framework and a marked over-reliance on static assumptions about what accessioning entails, to the detriment of both archivists and our collections. The case study that follows describes the creation of an accessioning program at New York University and posits a model of accessioning situated in the context of holistic archival administration, based on both theory and practice, and informed by access-driven workflows and iterative processing strategies.","PeriodicalId":35382,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archival Organization","volume":"14 1","pages":"153 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332748.2018.1517292","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49472481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grants for Processing: A Case Study in Grant Writing and Project Management at the Brooklyn College Archives","authors":"Colleen Bradley-Sanders","doi":"10.1080/15332748.2018.1502991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332748.2018.1502991","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article describes the process of finding the right grant to meet the needs of a processing project, the application and peer review process, and the experience of administering the grant received from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). The project is the processing of the YWCA of Brooklyn Collection, housed at Brooklyn College. The records have significant research potential in a variety of fields including women’s studies and sociology. While generally smooth, the administration of the grant has required the replacement of a departing Project Archivist, and the use of interns for some conservation work.","PeriodicalId":35382,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archival Organization","volume":"14 1","pages":"111 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332748.2018.1502991","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45817289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guest Editorial: Reflections on the Ethics of Web Archiving","authors":"Pamela Graham","doi":"10.1080/15332748.2018.1517589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332748.2018.1517589","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35382,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archival Organization","volume":"14 1","pages":"103 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332748.2018.1517589","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41751120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All in the Family: Privacy Laws and Precision Medicine","authors":"J. Austria","doi":"10.1080/15332748.2018.1522090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332748.2018.1522090","url":null,"abstract":"Precision medicine focuses on tailoring medical treatment based on genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. Family health histories are a common component of a standard medical exam, which collects basic clinical data about patients and their family members. Such information has always been helpful in assessing overall patient health. But today, clinicians may use the information gathered from a simple family health history to perform health risk assessments for certain cancers or to formulate personal health recommendations. While family members serve as the primary resource to obtain information, archives that house medical information also serve as an important site for medical genealogists to mine for life saving information. The purpose of this article is to review the federal and state laws that impact the archivist’s role in the world of precision medicine and family health genealogy. It includes an introduction to family medical histories and their use in precision medicine; a brief review of privacy and medical record laws, including proposed changes to privacy laws by the Trump administration; and, finally, potential areas for change in the law.","PeriodicalId":35382,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archival Organization","volume":"14 1","pages":"176 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332748.2018.1522090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48963332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}