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INF 389G Introduction to Electronic and Digital Records, Unique 27349 - Objectives, Fall 2019
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In this course we will address in readings digital records and digital records practices in general in order to flush out legal requirements for authenticity. We will also use our own personal digital records as a leverage tool to help understand the relevant principles and varieties of digital recordkeeping problems that people encounter every day at home and at work and that archivists are untimately going to have to deal with. We will be concerned with the issues that cluster around the creation, acquisition, preservation, and use of digital records. To be more specific, we will attempt to:

Understand how digital records exist and function as records (or nonrecords: who gets to decide? and what are digital records anyway?).

Why people create them and use them as they do in their original functional environment; why people need and keep them; why people actively destroy them or allow them to die.

Understand the implications of both statutory requirements (where they are applicable) and the technological environment for digital recordkeeping.

Review major trends in digital records archivy.

Appreciate and evaluate approaches to problems of media obsolescence.

Learn how to monitor and anticipate the digital recordkeeping implications of technological change; be familiar with both traditional and emerging digital genres.

Participate in the identification, acquisition, and management of digital records.


Most readings will be available online, either on Canvas or at the library; if you should encounter difficulty accessing them, please let me know immediately, and NOT the day before class. The class schedule and assignments are posted as part of this website and should be checked regularly for any changes. Any students requiring accommodation for disability or religious holy days should contact me at the beginning of class.

Also note that I will be gone to a conference on November 8, so you may choose to meet together to work on your Digital Preservation Use Case Project.