by ddelvisc | Sep 29, 2021
What is metadata? Put simply metadata is data about data. It is underlying data that provides context and describes a subject such as a car being a sedan, all-wheel drive, or colored red. Metadata is not only one of the most important parts of archiving in today’s...
by ddelvisc | Jan 11, 2021
The most common hurdles to long term preservation of physical collections of paper are small but insidious little items we often use every day in our filing practices. They help us in the short term by wrangling our files together in cohesive collections but when it...
by ddelvisc | Jan 4, 2021
Unfortunately, sometimes expediency supersedes care when it comes to our filing habits. One need only look at the desktop screen of our computers and often you will find a cluttered mess of current and past projects littered throughout, a mess that we periodically...
