Introduction

Browse through the following collection of downloads and templates to learn more about how to operate and care for equipment in your Digitization project, process audio, and edit files, and much more!

Administrative Documents

Sample Job Descriptions for a Digitization Project

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Logs & Templates for Digitization

Inventory Template

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Condition Assessments Template (for audiocassette tapes)

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Condition Assessments Template (for other resources)

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Digitization Log Template

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Resources for Your DiGI Kit

Scarlett 2i2 Interface Guide

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Cassette Deck Buying Guide

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Acquisition, Appraisal, and Accession Documents

Donor Agreement Template for Acquisition

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An Accountability Framework for Archival Appraisal (by Jim Suderman)

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Access Protocols Discussion Exercises

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Finding Aid Documents

Finding Aid Template (Excel)

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Finding Aid Template (Word Document)

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Resources for Working with Audio Files

Audio Data Quality Standards for Editing and Storage

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Step by Step Digitization Workflow

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BWF MetaEdit Processing Examples

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Editing Transients in Audacity

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Inside Audacity Image

Resources for Archiving

Archiving Basics

• What Are Archives? | Society of American Archivists

• How Do Archivists Describe Collections? (or, How to Read a Finding Aid) | Peeling the Past

• View of What is Past is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898, and the Future Paradigm Shift

• Reliability and Authenticity: The Concepts and Their Implications | Archivaria

• View of The Conceptual Fonds and the Physical Collection

Archiving and Ethics

• Ethical Issues in Digitization of Cultural Heritage

• View of From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives

• Ethics of Access in Displaced Archives

• Ethical Principles for Sound and Audiovisual Archives | International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

Archives and Colonialism

• Reconciliation Framework: The Response to the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Taskforce

• View of The Spectre in the Archive: Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Archival Memory

• The Crying Child: On Colonial Archives, Digitization, and Ethics of Care in the Cultural Commons

• Archival encounters: rethinking access and care in digital colonial archives (This paper requires the creation of a free account)

Content warning: all papers in this section include discussions of trauma.

Arrangement and Description

• Making the Leap from Parts to Whole: Evidence and Inference in Archival Arrangement and Description

• Stories and names: Archival description as narrating records and constructing meanings

• Cross Reference Heaven: The Abandonment of the Fonds as the Primary Level of Arrangement for Ontario Government Records

• Community First: Indigenous Community-Based Archival Provenance (Content warning: this paper includes discussions of residential schools)

• UC Guidelines for Born-Digital Archival Description

• Respectful Terminology Platform Project | NIKLA-ANCLA

Audio-Visual Archiving

• ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation • CLIR

• Learning to Listen: Archival Sound Recordings and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property

Community Archives

• Community Archive by Rebecka Sheffield (This paper requires the creation of a free account)

• Archival Optimism, or How to Sustain a Community Archives (Webinar)

• A process where we’re all at the table: community archives challenging dominant modes of archival practice

Copyright and Data Sovereignty

• Does Information Really Want to be Free? Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Question of Openness

• Engaging Respectfully with Indigenous Knowledges: Copyright, Customary Law, and Cultural Memory Institutions in Canada

• First Nations Data Governance Strategy - The First Nations Information Governance Centre

• CARE Principles — Global Indigenous Data Alliance

Disaster Preparedness

• Preserving Communities: A Guide to Archiving for Community Organizations

• Community Archives Cataloguing Guidelines V2

• Digital Archiving at the University of York

• ARSC Audio Preservation & Restoration Directory

• Audio Preservation Resources — NEDCC

Preservation for Digital and Analogue Materials

• View of Community Archives, Community Clouds: Enabling Digital Preservation for Small Archives

• Digital Preservation: What Does it Really Look Like? (Webinar)

• Knowledge Lost, Knowledge Gained: The Implications of Migrating to Online Archival Descriptive Systems

Learn More About OCAP^©

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Learn More About Challenges in Implementation of OCAP^©

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Learn More About Indigenous Collections & Repatriation Policies

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Learn More About Digital Ethics & Reconciliation

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Learn More About Metadata Terms

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Resources to Help You Work in Community

Language Revitalization Planning Toolkit: Meaningful Conversations

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Resources for Continued Learning (FNESC 2023 QR Link)

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Training Documents

Language Technology Program Training Guide (2021)

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Language Technology Program Training Guide (2022)

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