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.

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

2021-05-18

Publisher

University of Utah

Language

English

College

Harold B. Lee Library

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

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