HypotheticalWorkflow
The following description of a workflow is based on internationally acknowledged guidelines for handling accession. At SB we do not entirely follow these guidelines - mainly because of lack of resources.
The workflow is based on the scenario that a new donation has just arrived. But almost the same workflow can be used for collections that have been stored at SB for years, but which are now to be digitised.
The Workflow has three headlines: Receipt, Cataloguing, Digitisation.
Receipt: What to do when you get a new collection
Make a short description of the collection: Where does the collection come from, what are the agreements about it, how many items are there and what kind of media is it, etc.
When we are talking about elderly material, the next step is to keep the tapes separate from the rest of the collections in the archive until it is examined if they are infected by mould or other kind of contamination, and if that is the case the pollution must be eliminated.
Cataloguing: What kind of records do you need
Make a cataloue record of the physical items for the library database using danMARC2. This record can be used to create eg. a Dublin Core record when the item is going to be digitised.
Digitisation:
References
Juha Henriksson and Nadja Wallaszkovits (2009?) Audio Tape Digitisation Workflow http://www.jazzpoparkisto.net/audio/
Kulturarvsstyrelsen (2007) Retningslinjer for bevaring og håndtering af kulturarvsgenstande http://www.kulturarv.dk/forvaltning/museumsdrift/vejledninger/bevaring/index.jsp