National Library of Australia – Digital Manuscripts

The position of the manuscripts collection within NLA is in many ways analogous to the current position vis-a-vis digital arcives in UK local archive services:
The department has a collecting remit with private donors and organisations of national significance to Australia. This includes literary figures, people involved in the performing arts and some politicians.
In the [...]

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DARP2 Report “The state of digital record keeping in a selection of typical depositors to local Archives Services”

Thanks to Alan’s Notes & Thoughts for the heads-up about the publication by MLA East of England of the second report from their Digital Archives Regional Pilot (DARP).
This work follows on from the first DARP report, which was published in 2006 and involved the archive services in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire and the UK Data Archive.  [...]

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