Dear DLF,
The Yale University Library’s Born Digital Description Task Force is pleased to announce that we have completed Yale-wide guidelines regarding the arrangement and description of born-digital material, in accordance
with descriptive standards and best practices.
We welcome you to review the guidelines, if they are of interest to you. Here is a link:
https://guides.library.yale.edu/bddescriptionguidelines
The Guidelines are based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard, and are heavily informed by the
UC Guidelines for Born-Digital Archival Description, the
University at Buffalo Processing and Description: Digital Material Guidelines, Northwestern University Library’s Born-Digital Archival Description Guidelines for Distinctive Collections,
and conversations with colleagues at the Canadian Centre for Architecture; Duke University Libraries; Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library; the Guggenheim Museum; Harvard Library; Princeton University Libraries; Stanford
University; University of Pennsylvania Libraries; University of Pittsburgh Libraries; and the University of Texas at Austin Libraries. Thank you to everyone who has consulted with us as we drafted our guidelines -- we are very grateful for their time!
Questions, comments, and suggestions should be directed to the
Yale University Library Archival and Manuscript Description Committee.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Manton, for the Born Digital Description Task Force
Born Digital Description Task Force
Alison Clemens, Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives (co-chair)
Matthew Gorham, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (co-chair)
Jonathan Manton, Yale University Library, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library
Cate Peebles, Yale Center for British Art
Jessica Quagliaroli, Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives
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