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Create an accession record for the digital material that you are working with, for now it will just be a brief record so that you have an accession number to use with the resulting digital package. This will be one accession for all of the media contained in an unprocessed portion of a collection or a new unaccessioned transfer. If it is part of an unaccessioned transfer with analog records, everything will be accessioned together.
Follow the steps in the Creating Accession Records in ArchivesSpace [link] document manual. This accession record will be updated as you go through this workflow, at this point it is important to have an accession number which you can use for folder naming purposes.
Once you have your stub accession record, create a folder in the shared folder and title it with the accession number with an underscore instead of a dash and acc at the end, for instance: 2020_029acc. If accessible in BitCurator (sometimes won’t show up) or using Windows, the folder can be created either C:\ArchProcessing or on the FRED, C:\Users\DSLabAdmin\ArchProcessing. If not accessible on BitCurator, you can use an external hard drive.
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- Floppy drives
- Zip disk drives
- Jaz disk drives
- Optical disc drives
- Memory card readers
- Data tape drives
- Hard drives and storage devices
- Computers
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If you encounter an entire computer or laptop, consider consulting with the digital archivist about your best course of action. There are a few options:
If the computer could connect to the internet and is a modern operating system, install the appropriate software on the computer in question and follow the imaging section below.
Remove the hard drive from the computer and connect it to a processing computer, following the steps above for the relevant hard drive above.
Turn the computer on and connect it via its external ports to the processing computer and transfer the files following the appropriate imaging section below. Some computers have a specific transfer mode, such as Target Disk Mode for Macs.