Guides to Good Practice: Table of Contents#

Digital Archiving: An Introduction to these Guides#

• About these Guidelines
• How to use these Guides
• What is Digital Archiving?
• Archival Strategies

The Project Lifecycle#

• Planning for the Creation of Digital Data
• Project Documentation
• Project Metadata
• Data Selection: Preservation Intervention Points
• The Project Archive: Storage and Dissemination
• Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights

Basic 'Components': Common Digital Objects#

• Introduction to the Basic Components Section
• Documents and Texts
• Databases and Spreadsheets
• Raster Images
• Vector Images
• Digital Video
• Digital Audio

Data Collection and Fieldwork#

• Aerial Survey
• UAV Survey
• Geophysics
• Marine Remote Sensing
• Laser Scanning
• Close Range Photogrammetry
• Dendrochronology

Data Analysis and Visualisation#

• GIS
• CAD
• 3D Models

Preparing and Depositing Your Archive#

• Preparing your Archive
• Depositing at the ADS (UK)
• Depositing at tDAR (USA)

Additional Sections#

• Case Studies
• The Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
• List of Funders
• Acknowledgements