🖥 Delivery: Online (self-paced)
Planning and equipping a physical archive/records repository - building, environment, storage systems, fire, security and standards (PD 5454 / ISO 11799).
- Planning the facility
- Building envelope & environment
- Storage systems
- Fire detection & suppression
- Security & access control
- Commissioning & operation
Slides, handouts and workbooks for each topic are provided once you enrol.
🖥 Delivery: Online (self-paced)
The ethics and practice of conserving heritage materials - condition assessment, preventive conservation, an overview of remedial treatment, and when to call a professional conservator.
- Conservation vs preservation & ethics
- Materials & their deterioration
- Condition assessment & documentation
- Preventive conservation
- Remedial treatment (overview)
- When to call a conservator & planning
Slides, handouts and workbooks for each topic are provided once you enrol.
🖥 Delivery: Online (self-paced)
Protecting physical records and collections from deterioration through good storage, housing, handling, pest management and disaster preparedness.
- Principles & agents of deterioration
- Storage environment
- Housing & handling
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
- Disaster preparedness & response
- Surveys, monitoring & prioritisation
Slides, handouts and workbooks for each topic are provided once you enrol.
🖥 Delivery: Online (self-paced)
How to keep digitised and born-digital records accessible, usable and trustworthy for the long term - the OAIS model and PREMIS, sustainable formats, fixity and integrity, preservation strategies, ingest and the AIP (with Archivematica), and preservation governance. Follows on from Digitisation (DIG-01) and Records Management (RM-01).
- What digital preservation is (and is not)
- Standards & reference models
- Formats & normalisation
- Fixity & integrity
- Preservation strategies
- Ingest & the AIP (with Archivematica)
- Governance, sustainability & the future
Slides, handouts and workbooks for each topic are provided once you enrol.
🔁 Delivery: Hybrid (online + in-person sessions)
End-to-end digitisation of paper records - preparation and scanning, OCR/HTR, metadata and indexing, quality assurance, and how to size and cost a project (pages per box, operator-day throughput).
- Introduction & why digitise
- Preparation & capture
- OCR & HTR
- Metadata & indexing
- Quality assurance
- Volume & throughput estimation
- Delivery, preservation & closeout
Slides, handouts and workbooks for each topic are provided once you enrol.