Paradigm cluster summary
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PARADIGM
The PARADIGM Project, led by Oxford University, addresses the issues and uncertainties relating to working with the personal papers of private individuals to develop policies and procedures to care for the born 'digital' archives which are increasingly replacing the paper records of the past.
PARADIGM's primary objective is to act as an exemplar project: providing record creators (we are working with politicians papers) and curating institutions with an introduction to the preservation of digital personal archives based on the projects experiences.
One of the deliverables will be an on-line workbook - www.paradigm.ac.uk/workbook which will provide guidance on accessioning and ingesting digital private papers into digital repositories and processing these in line with archival and digital preservation requirements. Another outcome will be the creation of guidance notes for creators of digital private papers.
Questions / Challenges of interest to the PARADIGM Project
- We need to build on and integrate the work of others rather than re-inventing the wheel.
- We have a preference for flexible solutions which are cross-platform and based on open standards.
- Creating the atmosphere of trust with private individuals to enable the preservation of sensitive materials over decades.
- Developing ingest workflows for complex collections of objects - many repositories deal only with a handful of object types and we need to deal with whatever we find on an individual's computer AND maintain the contextual relationships between objects AND do it as efficiently as possible.
