This article written by Ben Goldman provides instructions and the costs of how to set up a work space for harvesting digital data. The article is divided into six steps to allow for archivists to set up their space from scratch. Goldman emphasizes assessing the collection to determine whether spending money and time to create a workstation and supporting infrastructure for digital archiving is worth the effort. He suggests completing an inventory to determine current storage needs. The next step is to partner with the institution's IT department to determine technical requirements such as increased amounts of memory, install software, establish dark archive storage or obtain equipment. The workstation being created has to be protected from outside interference such as viruses. Goldman suggests the work space be exempted from other uses and possibly isolated on the local network through firewall specifications. Goldman compares having a quarantined work space to a room that archives use for new acquisitions. Then the computer's hardware specifications need to be considered by making sure the computer has the memory and operating ability for the data that needs to be collected. Obtaining different types of hardware to read floppy disks drives, memory card readers and optical media drives depending on the technology the data in the collection is stored on. Lastly, Goldman discusses different types of software that would be needed such as virus protection and digital forensic tools.
Goldman, Ben. (2015). Outfitting a Born Digital Archives Program. Practical Technology for Archives. Retrieved from http://practicaltechnologyforarchives.org/issue2_goldman/.
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