Born digital: guidance for donors, dealers, and archival repositories
This report offers recommendations to help ensure the physical and intellectual well-being of born-digital materials transferred from donors to archival repositories. The report surveys the primary issues and concerns related to born-digital acquisitions and is intended for a broad audience with varying levels of interest and expertise, including donors, dealers, and repository staff. Recommendations are provided for the acquisition and transfer of born-digital materials to archival repositories, to help ensure that digital materials are handled and documented appropriately and arrive at repositories in good condition. The target audience we had in mind included rare book and manuscript dealers, donors, repository staff, and other custodians in possession of digital media and files.
