1. Erin O’Meara Gates Archive January 27, 2012 ALCTS PARS Digital Preservation Interest Group Recent Publications about Managing Born-Digital Materials

2. AIMS Project AIMS Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship (January, 2012) Mellon-funded project across large institutions Developed guidance based on archival processes: Collection Development Accessioning Arrangement & Description Discovery & Access Case studies in each functional area http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/aims/whitepaper/

3. UNC SILS Master’s Paper by Martin Gengenbach “They Way We Do it Here”: Mapping Digital Forensics Workflows in Collecting Institutions. (August, 2012) Interviews with 8 archivists on the application of digital forensics tools and techniques in their repository Figures on pp. 32-67 of actual workflows used at Yale (Beinecke and Manuscripts and Archives), City of Vancouver, Duke, MITH, NLA, UNC, UVa http://digitalcurationexchange.org/system/files/gengenbach- forensic-workflows-2012.pdf

4. OCLC’s Demystifing Born Digital Series You’ve Got to Walk Before You Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media (June, 2012) Basic guidance on how to identify and triage content housed on physical media Swatting the Long Tail of Digital Media: A Call for Collaboration (August, 2012) Proposes collaborative approaches for acquiring content on physical media – regional centers of expertise http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/20 12-06r.html

5. Born-Digital Acquisitions Group Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories (January 2013) Provides clear guidance to donors, dealers and archivists on preparing materials for acquisition Open to editing and feedback from the community http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/borndig ital/

6. What does this mean? Shift from theoretical publications on born-digital materials to strategic and tactical approaches Other signals of professional maturation: Sharing processes and workflows with larger community Sharing of concrete best practices Collaborating on project to test out processes and workflows What’s next? More complete workflow testing, sharing and adoption Best practice documentation in more formal publications Enhanced tool development