Keywords
COVID-19, pandemic, digital collections, born-digital, photographs, stories, oral histories, crowdsourced, collecting in times of crisis
Abstract
“Traditionally archivists collected material years following an event. This is no longer the case. Digital content and documenting current events both require information specialists to act quickly and be involved in the initial development of potential collections to ensure they are identified, described, and preserved for future retrieval.”
Original Publication Citation
Neatrour, A., Wittmann, R., Myntti, J. “Utah COVID-19 Digital Collection.” Best Practices Exchange. May 18, 2021. Virtual Conference.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Myntti, Jeremy; Neatrour, Anna; and Wittmann, Rachel, "The Utah COVID-19 Digital Collection: Best Practices for Born-Digital, Crowdsourced Collections" (2021). Faculty Publications. 6379.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/6379
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
2021-05-18
Publisher
University of Utah
Language
English
College
Harold B. Lee Library
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