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Practical Remote Workflow Solutions for Complex Digital Projects

Published in Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 2021

The spread of COVID-19 has created numerous challenges in the field of archive management. Limited in-house office space, furloughs of personnel, and inconsistency, have highlighted the potential for the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center Archives (Center) to develop and implement improved accessibility measures to thousands of linear feet of material. Additionally, the Center has found unique opportunities to collaborate with multiple academic institutions to propose large-scale digitization program exhibitions using the Center’s remote workflow model. One of the largest, most complex collections the Center has worked with during this time is the Political Commercial Collection (the Collection), which holds 119,000 film, audio, and videotape recordings of commercials aired between 1936 and the present. It is the largest collection of political commercials in the world. The Center has developed a working pilot digitization project that has currently resulted in access to 16,000 digital videos for public researchers and over 10,000 available for online streaming during the pilot phase between April 16, 2020, and December 1, 2020. This paper presents the practical application of the Center’s simplified “Linear Reciprocity Workflow Model” to provide a systematic solution for the digital and long-term preservation of complex collections. The Center has proven that limited personnel and reduced resources need not interrupt continued access to archival repositories.

Recommended citation: Pryse, J. A. (2022). Practical Remote Workflow Solutions for Complex Digital Projects: Opportunities in a Pandemic. Collections, 18(2), 258-279. https://doi.org/10.1177/15501906211052720 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15501906211052720

Oral History Interview Data Curation Primer

Published in Data Curation Network GitHub Repository, 2021

This work was created as part of the “Specialized Data Curation” Workshop #3 held at Washington University in St. Louis in St. Louis, MO on November 5-6, 2019. These workshops have been generously funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services # RE-85-18-0040-18.

Recommended citation: Pryse, J.A.; Harp, Matthew; Mannheimer, Sara; Marsolek, Wanda; and Cowles, Wind. (2020). Oral History Interviews Data Curation Primer. Data Curation Network GitHub Repository. https://github.com/DataCurationNetwork/data-primers/blob/9dbee157b443cb11e4961d919ca7da452de7d602/Oral%20History%20Interviews%20Data%20Curation%20Primer/oral-history-interviews-data-curation-primer.md

Carl Albert Center COVID-19 Curation Project

Published in The Southwest Archivist, 2020

As an institution with experience in archiving records from different levels of government, the Center has the appropriate experience and tools necessary to collect, preserve, and share both paper and digital records, correspondence, public communications, and website data related to the State of Oklahoma and the City of Norman, Oklahomas COVID-19 pandemic response.

Recommended citation: Pryse, JA. (2020). Carl Albert Center COVID-19 Curation Project. The Southwestern Archivist(Capital Printing Co.) 43 (2): 18-24. https://societyofsouthwestarchivists.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/Newsletters/SWA2020v43no2-May.pdf